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Experience Partner - Associate Director - Cognizant Moment

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Cognizant Moment reinvents experience in an AI-enabled world. A group of industry creative leaders and technology experts, Cognizant Moment helps businesses build a new kind of experience ecosystem. One that combines big data insights with the imaginative application of generative AI to drive innovation and deliver hyper-personalized, dynamic experiences that drive brand growth and differentiation. Cognizant Moment helps our clients in their Experience Transformation, Marketing and Content, Commerce, Digital Product Design, Learning, Employee Experience and Digital Experience Platforms (including Adobe).

As a new role, we are hiring an Experience Partner in UAE to join our growing team. This role will be based in Riyadh, offers hybrid work modality and 20% potential travel to cover United Arab Emirates.

The Experience Partner serves at the core of demand generation for Cognizant Moment services - balancing sales, solutioning, storytelling, and account management. This role is a key component of a broader Cognizant Moment Experience Partner organization including Proposal Response and Program/Project Management. The combined organization measures its success on both total contract value (TCV) targets and client satisfaction, with a particular goal to grow existing Cognizant clients in new buying centers. The Moment Experience Partner works directly with the market/industry account client partner team as well as adjacent service lines to build solutions and support client needs.

Your work at Cognizant Moment :

  • Generate demand for Cognizant Moment offers – you’ll work to understand trends and align capabilities to leverage opportunities for UAE clients. Your work will include crafting a sales plan, leading a pipeline of opportunities, and working with clients to build on problem statements that serve as guideposts for innovative solutioning.
  • Build compelling solutions for internal and external stakeholders and operations– you will assemble and lead pursuit teams with appropriate skills to help your clients solve for their biggest challenges and address critical problem statements. You’ll be accountable for the story, the structure of the deal, and pricing/profitability.
  • Be a trusted advisor to your clients – you’ll actively seek to establish relationships with key client stakeholders who focus on growth within marketing, technology & product, and business division leaders. And the impacted external stakeholders. You will be accountable for client satisfaction, and you will proactively generate thought leadership that supports your clients’ desire to look ahead and anticipate the evolving market.
  • Collaborate Across Cognizant – you’ll be the point person to assemble skills – within Cognizant Moment and across the organization – to respond to client needs. You’ll work closely with internal account teams to plan and run existing clients. You’ll work with Consulting and other parts of Cognizant like Data, and Engineering, to ensure the best people are working toward an ideal solution.

What you bring:

  • Dual language Arabic and English
  • Strategic problem solving: ability to understand business challenges and requirements from the customer’s perspective, as well as industry trends, and translating them into experience solutions that generate growth
  • Market/Industry prowess: Deep understanding of how the Digital Space works and years of experience working with clients (via agency, consultancy or other partner) with strong connects from Adobe, Salesforce and Google ecosystems
  • Experience Expertise including: Digital Experience Platforms as well as Design, Marketing, Content, Commerce, Learning,
  • Understanding of Product launch process and pre-commercialization stages as well as brand/product launch strategies
  • Executive Presence: Effective executive communication skills to clearly articulate solution vision and demonstrate solutions in a simple but compelling way. You’ll also need to be able to create your own compelling presentations.
  • Relationship management: Outstanding interpersonal abilities; skilled in handling relationships with customers, market teams, and other practice experts.
  • Commercial knowledge: Ability to analyze sales opportunities and qualify leads and opportunities. Need expertise in crafting pitches/proposals, GTM, and sales plans.

What’s in it for you:

You’ll get the chance to build industry leading digital experience solutions that shape millions of people’s lives around the globe. You will partner with specialists in Adobe, Salesforce, Contact Center, Gen AI, Commerce, Digital Products, Marketing and Content, and Personalization among others.

At Cognizant, we embrace diversity. We believe it’s what helps us thrive. Our goal is to include everyone at the table, and to value and respect their unique voices and backgrounds.

Need a change in 2025 to grow in responsibility and evolve in your career? Join us ! Please share you CV in English and we will connect soon.

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What we offer

  • The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
  • Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
  • The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
  • A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and pension plan with matching contributions.
  • Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
  • True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.  

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.

While our system allows application in all languages, job required language(s) and proficiency level(s) vary. However, basic English proficiency is required for Company-wide communications purposes.

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. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

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