Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

The Company

Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 340,000 employees as of January 2025. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

Cognizant Consulting

At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale. Our consulting services elevate the unique abilities and business aspirations of customers and employees and build relationships based on trust and value.

About the role:

• As a Consulting Manager you will be an essential part of Transformation Management (TM) in Norway, which encompasses the Consulting-led Program Management & Change Management capabilities serving our clients transformation initiatives.
• You will lead complex transformation projects typically as a Transformation lead / Project Sr. Manager in which you lead cross-functional teams in the planning and successful orchestration of the end-to-end deliverables of Cognizant against objectives. The engagements will range from initial $100k assessments, $500k design projects, then to subsequent $20m multi-year transformation programs.
• You will need to thrive leading the development of holistic program & change solutions that support the transformative orchestration which are addressing the business impact complexities.
• You will collaborate to large extent with other consulting practices, service lines, client partners and delivery partners to enable the overall transformational journey. You will in addition not least collaborate with TM practices serving other industries in Norway, across the Nordics or across the Global Growth Markets as a whole.
• Your contributions will be essential to evolve our growing Norway based TM practice where you are expected to lead the area of platform-driven transformations related for instance to ERP/CRM/HCM.
• You will report into the Head of Transformation Management in Nordics and be quantitative measured on utilization, as well as qualitative contributions to sales and growth of our Consulting practice.
• Your management consulting background coupled with experience from leading transformations enabled by digital technology allows you to provide executive level governance reporting/steering and be responsible for driving the execution of expected outcomes including business readiness of the transformative change.
• Supported by Cognizant Consulting, Designers and Technology experts, you will be responsible for overall transformational deliverables and be central in building trust-based client relationships for future growth. Furthermore, you will support account- and business development and you should be ready to act as bid manager on key opportunities related to Transformation Management.
• You will work in an entrepreneurial environment where digital expertise is recognized, developed and rewarded, and be part of a fast growing, ambitious team of sharp thinking management consultants as well as from other leading companies.

About You:

• You have minimum 7-10 years, hands-on experience from Transformation Management Office (TMO) / leading transformational initiatives, with core consulting skills derived from your management consulting background.
• As such you have experience to lead the integrated planning and execution of required activities, risks/dependencies, and the benefits realization management (BRM).
• You need an ability to assess the change impact of the operating model, develop and implement change management strategies to navigate the readiness across the operating model dimensions, not least addressing the people-side of change.
• We are seeking people who are passionate about transformations, who want to make an impact and love working together across Cognizant to deliver flawless results for business-led transformational outcomes enabled by digital. Trusted Advisor in Transformation Management, able to interact at C-levels with core consulting skills derived from your management consulting background.
• You are used to working with global and regional clients on a senior and preferably executive level. You are experienced in delivering digital transformation programs such as those that are enabled by CRM/ERP platforms, Cloud migrations or M&A Integrations/Carve-outs. It’s essential that you possess the experience from leading consulting engagements that have a transformative business impact enabled by digital technology.
• You have strong background to drive transformations across industries.
• You need to be used to Agile / Waterfall methods, while it is also beneficial if you possess experience from driving initiatives in M&A and outsourcing environments. You are fluent in Norwegian as well as English.

Personally, you have strong interpersonal and leadership skills and an entrepreneurial mindset, as you like to creatively explore and contribute to opportunities to do things better. You are a doer and can proactively identify, prioritize, qualify, and convert opportunities. We are known for our passion about the potential for digital to transform business and society for human benefit and we hope that you feel the same way. Furthermore, we expect that you are a genuine leader, characterized by integrity, creativity, accountability, communication skills and respect. We believe that hard work can go hand in hand with an informal and collaboratively work culture.

The Cognizant community:

We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

• Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world.
• We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen.
• We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right.
• We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.

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

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.

Disclaimer:

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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