Senior Consultant (Manager Level) – Road Transportation/Freight Brokerage

Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities Consulting

Location: Chicago

ABOUT US

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we’re growing!

The Role

Our Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities Consulting group is looking for a Senior Consultant to join our journey.

We’re looking for Senior Consultants who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant (which is a Manager level position) this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

Responsibilities

· Work with clients to establish clear connections between business goals and strategies to capability development and implementation to achieving desired business value.

· Define product / platform strategies and solutions focused on Transportation Planning and execution, including logistics planning, route optimization and fleet management.

· Understand scope and define business requirements along with client business stakeholders

· Map business processes to identify improvement/transformation opportunities

· End to end requirement management of products from product / platform vision to deliverable stories

· Prepare functional use cases / detailed user stories

· Validate UX / UI for every feature / function

· Conduct stories / functionality demo to client product management teams (internal/external)

· Review test plans prepared by QA Team

· Support UAT

· Assist in resolving scope, requirements, and other technical related queries

· Manage change requests / enhancements / features

· Defect analysis, testing and demo to client

· Expertise in working with multi geography development team to deliver production ready product with incremental value

· Advanced problem resolution skills and communication abilities

· Create and maintain long-term working relationships with technology teams, functional counterparts, vendors, and business partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience, with additional certifications preferred, but not mandatory

• 7+ years of consulting experience with a focus on Transportation and Logistics.
• Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications are preferred but not required.

• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Show proficiency in project management methodologies and tools.
• Display a deep understanding of industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Be capable of working effectively in a hybrid work model.
• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Exhibit a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
• Maintain a client-focused approach with strong relationship management skills.
• Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; the embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Work as one, Raise the bar, Dare to innovate, Do the right thing, Own it
• Ability to travel if needed for business requirements

Work Authorization

• Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.