Position: Service Line Specialist – AI/ML, Analytics & data
Experience: Minimum 7+ years in Presales Data & Analytics Solutions and Services and overall 15+years.
Industry Preference – Banking and Financial Services
Preferred Locations: East Coast - NJ/NY, DC, Virginia, Pennsylvania
Travel: 4+ days a month
Preferred qualifications:
Exposure to North America’s Financial Services Industry
Strong exposure to selling Data solutions on Azure, AWS, and GCP platforms with understanding of Data warehouse concepts like Cloud modernization, Enterprise data governance analytics and reporting.
Sound knowledge on Snowflake, Databricks, Informatica and other leading Data Products.
Experience supporting long-term executive relationships, and developing new territories/accounts, while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
Experience working cross functionally (including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal) to inventory existing software estate, build business cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements.
Experience in carrying and exceeding business goals in a pre-Sales role.
Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based sales activity within business cycles, including qualifying accounts and leveraging the partner ecosystem.
Knowledge of market trends, products, and solutions of Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI), modern data architecture, data governance, hyperscalers ( Azure,AWS, GCP )and intelligent automations are highly desirable
MBA or master’s degree from a top-ranked institution.
About The Job In this role, you will help Cognizant grow the Artificial Intelligence and Analytics (AI&A) business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. You will work with customers to deliver true business value, demonstrate product functionality, and provide a overview of key business use cases. Business cycles will include a combination of productivity use cases, as well as working with product teams to help the customers build new products leveraging the AI solutions. You will lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members and external customers, leading with empathy, while identifying ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for the AI&A Practice.
Responsibilities
Build relationships with Financial Services customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, manage business cycles, identify solution use cases, and influence direction of accounts.
Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understand each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, participants, and how they can transform their business using Cognizant's industry experience, accelerators and platforms.
Work with Financial Services accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g. Customer Engineering, Software Platform and Engineering, Consulting, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) to develop go-to-market (GTM) strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, understand the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
Deliver against revenue target and achieve or exceed business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting your portfolio businesses.
Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understand each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, participants, and how they can transform their business using Cognizant's industry experience, accelerators and platforms.
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 a 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.
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Other employment-related information
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, provincial or local laws.
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Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
