Title: Consulting Manager/Scrum Master
(Life Sciences Advisory Consulting Practice)
Level: Manager/ Location: Halifax (Work Model: Hybrid)
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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?
Role Summary
· Support discovery, requirements definition, agile delivery, and implementation readiness for GMSx Manufacturing Workstream initiatives. These roles will blend strong business-analysis capability with hands-on Scrum Master delivery support, working closely with manufacturing subject-matter experts, product owners, and implementation partners.
· The resource may support distinct but interconnected capability areas, such as Golden Batch, Connected Worker/OEE, and PAT evaluation.
Key Responsibilities
● Lead and document business-process discovery with manufacturing, quality, engineering, and digital stakeholders.
● Translate operational needs into clear user stories, process maps, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and prioritized backlogs.
● Facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
● Partner with product owners to prioritize work based on manufacturing value, feasibility, risk, and release readiness.
● Support design and validation of future-state workflows for Golden Batch and Connected Worker/OEE use cases.
● Capture and help support the creation of documentation for process, data, integration, reporting, validation and user-adoption requirements required for implementation.
● Identify dependencies, issues, decisions, and risks; maintain transparent delivery tracking and escalate blockers promptly.
● Support testing preparation, business-user engagement, training/readiness planning, and site deployment activities as needed.
● Contribute to PAT evaluation through current-state assessment, use-case definition, stakeholder interviews, requirements capture, and benefit/risk analysis.
Required Experience and Capabilities
● Experience as a Business Analyst, Scrum Master, Product Analyst, or similar role in pharmaceutical manufacturing or a GMP-regulated life-sciences setting.
● Strong knowledge of manufacturing operations, batch execution, shop-floor workflows, and the interaction between Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and Digital/IT.
● Demonstrated experience eliciting and documenting requirements for manufacturing digital solutions.
● Hands-on agile delivery experience, including backlog management, user-story development, facilitation, and team-level delivery reporting.
● Familiarity with GMP requirements, electronic records/data integrity considerations, and validation or computerized-system implementation practices.
● Excellent workshop facilitation, stakeholder-management, documentation, and communication skills.
Preferred Experience
● Experience with MES/eBR, Golden Batch, OEE, connected worker, industrial IoT, process data historians, manufacturing analytics, or digital work instructions.
● Exposure to PAT concepts, process monitoring, manufacturing data science, or advanced process control.
● Scrum Master, Product Owner, Business Analysis, or agile-delivery certification.
● Experience supporting manufacturing site pilots, rollouts, or change adoption
Required Education: Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or Master’s degree strongly preferred
Salary and Other Compensation:
Applications will be accepted until November 11th, 2026.
The annual salary for this position is between $81,450.00 – $129,500.00 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
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About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap 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, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Additional employment information
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
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