About Cognizant Consulting
Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice. We’re a global community of 5,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?
About the role
As a Senior Manager, Consulting - Program Management, you will make an impact by helping clients translate business needs into structured projects and successful delivery outcomes. You will work closely with business, project, IT, Cognizant, and client stakeholders to shape project concepts, initiate delivery activities, manage execution, and ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and within scope.
This role is ideal for a proactive consulting leader who can operate across business and technology teams, manage ambiguity, build trusted stakeholder relationships, and drive project delivery with strong governance, financial ownership, and risk management.
In this role, you will:
- Lead program and project delivery from initiation through execution, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and within agreed scope.
- Partner with business, project, IT, Cognizant, and client stakeholders to understand business needs, shape them into project concepts, and support project initiation activities.
- Own project financial management, including project P&L, change tracking, budget control, and timely reporting of progress, issues, concerns, and risks.
- Identify, manage, and escalate project risks and issues to the appropriate stakeholders in a timely and transparent manner.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships and collaborate across business and technology teams to translate business requirements into practical delivery plans and work products.
Work model
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position based in Tokyo, Japan, with work expected at a client or Cognizant location as required by the project.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.
What you must have to be considered
- 15+ years of relevant professional experience, ideally in consulting, program management, project management, technology delivery, or client-facing transformation work.
- Proven experience managing complex projects or programs, including delivery scope, timeline, budget, financials, project changes, issues, risks, and stakeholder communications.
- Strong ability to engage business stakeholders, understand business needs, and translate those needs into project concepts, delivery plans, and executable work products.
- Experience working with IT, project, client, and business teams in a cross-functional environment, with the ability to influence, align, and manage expectations across stakeholders.
- Native-level Japanese proficiency and strong English capability for reading, writing, meetings, presentations, phone/web meetings, documentation, and email correspondence.
These will help you succeed
- PMP or Certified ScrumMaster certification is preferred.
- Business-level English proficiency, including the ability to participate in meetings, deliver presentations, create documents, read business materials, and correspond by email in English.
- A proactive consulting mindset, with the ability to work independently, bring structure to ambiguous business needs, and move stakeholders from idea to delivery.
- Strong governance orientation, including timely reporting, escalation discipline, risk management, and transparent communication with stakeholders.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with business, client, IT, project, and Cognizant teams in a fast-moving consulting environment.
Candidate encouragement paragraph
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role. This paragraph is included in the global consulting job posting template.
关于高知特 (Cognizant)
高知特(Cognizant)（纳斯达克代码：CTSH）作为一家AI Builder和相关技术服务提供商，致力于通过打造全栈AI解决方案，帮助企业将人工智能投资转化为实际价值。公司凭借深厚的行业经验、流程优化和工程技术专长，将企业独特的业务场景融入科技系统，赋能组织释放人才潜能，推动切实成果，并帮助全球企业在瞬息万变的环境中保持领先。如需了解更多详情，敬请访问 cognizant.ai 或关注@cognizant。
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