Consulting Senior Manager

Job Summary

Consulting Senior Manager role in a global organization focusing on IT consulting for enterprise clients in a hybrid work model with day shifts and no travel requirement. The role involves driving complex consulting engagements shaping digital transformation strategies mentoring consulting teams and ensuring high quality delivery that advances client business outcomes and supports broader societal innovation through responsible technology adoption.

Responsibilities

• Drive end to end management of complex IT consulting engagements to help clients optimize technology investments and achieve measurable business outcomes in a predictable and structured manner.
• Lead design of digital transformation roadmaps that align client technology landscapes with strategic objectives while ensuring sustainable value creation and operational resilience.
• Oversee development of detailed solution proposals that translate client requirements into clear consulting deliverables and implementation steps with well defined success metrics.
• Guide multidisciplinary consulting teams in conducting assessments of applications infrastructure data and processes to identify gaps risks and modernization opportunities.
• Coordinate collaborative workshops with client stakeholders to define problem statements prioritize initiatives and agree on practical technology strategies that can be executed effectively.
• Ensure rigorous project governance by tracking milestones managing risks resolving issues and maintaining transparent communication with client sponsors and internal teams.
• Drive standardization of consulting methods tools and templates so that project teams can deliver consistent high quality outcomes across multiple engagements.
• Provide thought guidance on emerging technology trends in areas such as cloud platforms data analytics automation and cybersecurity to inform client strategies and internal offerings.
• Manage engagement financials by monitoring budgets resource utilization and margins while recommending actions that protect profitability and client value.
• Support talent development within the consulting practice by mentoring team members giving structured feedback and encouraging continuous learning in IT consulting disciplines.
• Collaborate with internal business units to shape reusable service offerings based on lessons learned from projects so future clients benefit from proven approaches.
• Drive strong client relationships founded on trust responsiveness and clarity to enable long term partnerships that positively influence industry practices and societal progress.
• Ensure delivery quality and compliance with organizational standards and client expectations by applying rigorous review practices across all consulting artifacts.

Qualifications

• Possess extensive experience in IT consulting across at least fifteen years with a solid track record of managing complex technology advisory and implementation programs for enterprise clients.
• Demonstrate strong skills in analyzing legacy and modern technology environments and in proposing pragmatic modernization approaches that balance cost risk and business impact.
• Exhibit proficiency in translating business requirements into technology strategies including cloud migration data platform design application portfolio rationalization and process automation.
• Show capability in using structured consulting frameworks for discovery assessment solution design and roadmap planning to ensure repeatable and reliable client outcomes.
• Apply advanced stakeholder management skills to work effectively with executive sponsors business owners and technical teams in hybrid work settings across diverse locations.
• Utilize excellent communication and documentation abilities to create clear reports presentations proposals and status updates that enable informed decisions by client leaders.
• Demonstrate familiarity with agile and traditional project delivery methods and know when to recommend each approach based on client culture regulatory context and delivery risk.
• Display strong problem solving skills in resolving complex technology and process issues and in guiding teams to select options that support long term strategic goals.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of industry regulations security practices and data governance principles to ensure consulting recommendations remain compliant and sustainable.
• Show evidence of mentoring and coaching consulting professionals by sharing domain knowledge in IT consulting and promoting an inclusive and growth oriented work environment.

À savoir avant de postuler

• Autorisation de travail: Cognizant ne prendra en considération que les candidats à ce poste qui sont légalement autorisés à travailler au Canada sans avoir besoin d'un parrainage de l'employeur, aujourd'hui ou à l'avenir.
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• Poste à pourvoir: Sauf indication contraire, ce poste est actuellement vacant et nous cherchons à le pourvoir.
• Exigences linguistiques: Nous demandons à tous les candidats de posséder une connaissance de base de l’anglais afin de faciliter les communications internes. Pour les postes au Québec, la capacité à communiquer efficacement en anglais est requise car vous fournirez des services à et collaborerez avec des parties prenantes anglophones situées hors de la province.
• Inclusion: Cognizant est un employeur souscrivant au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Votre candidature et votre dossier ne seront pas examinés en fonction de la race, de la couleur, du sexe, de la religion, des croyances, de l'orientation sexuelle, de l'identité de genre, de l'origine nationale, du handicap, des renseignements génétiques, de la grossesse, du statut d'ancien combattant ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois fédérales, provinciales ou locales.

À propos de Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) est un AI Builder et une entreprise de services numériques (ESN) élaborant des solutions complètes d’IA maximisant les investissements pour des résultats concrets. Sa profonde expertise des métiers, des processus et des technologies lui permet d’intégrer dans les systèmes technologiques le contexte unique de chaque organisation de l’ingénierie à la production à l’échelle. Son objectif: améliorer l’efficacité des équipes, créer de la valeur et permettre aux grandes entreprises de rester performantes dans un monde qui évolue rapidement. Pour en savoir plus: cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.