We are currently seeking an experienced ServiceNow Delivery Lead to lead complex ServiceNow engagements and drive successful project outcomes for enterprise clients.
This role provides the opportunity to work closely with customers, stakeholders, and delivery teams to ensure programs are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality. You will play a critical role in managing client relationships, driving delivery excellence, and ensuring customers realise maximum value from their ServiceNow investments.
As a trusted advisor, you will oversee project execution from initiation through to deployment, while fostering strong stakeholder engagement and maintaining a relentless focus on customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end ServiceNow engagements from initiation through delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and aligned to customer expectations.
• Build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders, acting as the primary point of contact throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to understand challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and deliver innovative ServiceNow solutions.
• Establish clear project goals, objectives, milestones, and success criteria aligned with strategic business outcomes.
• Facilitate project governance, status meetings, steering committees, and stakeholder workshops to ensure transparency and alignment.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level reporting, including project updates, milestones achieved, risks, issues, decisions, action items, and change requests.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, and resource allocation to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks, manage escalations, and resolve issues before they impact project delivery.
• Ensure customers have clear visibility into project progress, delivery methodology, and governance processes.
• Coordinate knowledge transfer, training, and handover activities to support successful adoption and transition to support teams.
• Maintain strong stakeholder engagement by ensuring appropriate communication, consultation, and involvement throughout project delivery.
• Drive customer satisfaction by managing expectations, delivering quality outcomes, and ensuring all agreed deliverables are completed and formally accepted.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across delivery processes, engagement models, and project governance practices.
Skills & Experience
• Extensive years of project leadership, program delivery, or consulting experience within enterprise technology environments.
• Experience as an Engagement Manager, Project Manager, or Delivery Manager leading ServiceNow implementations or managed service engagements.
• Strong understanding of ServiceNow delivery methodologies, implementation lifecycles, and platform capabilities.
• Proven experience managing complex professional services engagements with multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Strong project planning, estimation, forecasting, and budget management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional delivery teams and coordinate resources across multiple projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships at executive, business, and technical levels.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven track record of delivering high levels of customer satisfaction in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies, and change control processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Proficiency with project management and productivity tools, including Microsoft Office and enterprise project management platforms.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to balance customer outcomes with project constraints and delivery commitments.
Next Steps
If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organisation you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit www.cognizant.com/careers.
Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities.
Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.
Acerca de Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) es un creador de soluciones de IA y proveedor de servicios tecnológicos que conecta la inversión en IA con el valor empresarial mediante el desarrollo de soluciones de IA full‑stack para sus clientes. Su profundo conocimiento de la industria, junto con su experiencia en procesos e ingeniería, permite incorporar el contexto único de cada organización en sistemas tecnológicos que amplifican el potencial humano, generan resultados tangibles y mantienen a las empresas a la vanguardia en un entorno en constante cambio. Más información en cognizant.ai o @cognizant.
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