MLEU – Domain Consultant

Cognizant; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a MLEU Domain Expert to support pre-sales, craft market insight-led proposals, and map client needs to Cognizant Moment capabilities across Manufacturing, Automotive, Logistics and Energy & Utilities.

In this hybrid role based in Chennai/Bengaluru/Hyderabad, you will interact with sales, architecture and accounts, translate industry trends into client-ready insights, and drive win themes, ROI cases and solution accelerators.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering; MBA or master’s preferred.
• 10–15 years in business development, pre-sales, or consulting with 5+ years in MLEU domains.
• Experience supporting RFx responses, client presentations, and solution demos.
• Strong communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted domain advisor to pre-sales and sales teams, articulating Cognizant Moment value across MLEU.
• Identify and qualify new opportunities by translating Industry 4.0 and energy-transition trends into insights.
• Support RFx responses, demos, and executive presentations with win themes and ROI-focused business cases.
• Lead domain enablement sessions and develop reusable knowledge artefacts and accelerators.
• Lead cross-functional sprints and design-thinking workshops to shape new solution hypotheses.

Skills

Executive presence

Proposal writing

Pre-sales coordination

Client storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

MBA or relevant master's

Tools

RESTful APIs

Monolithic & microservices

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

About the role

As a MLEU Domain Expert, you will make an impact by supporting the pre-sales team in crafting compelling, market insight-led proposals and bid responses across Manufacturing, Automotive, Logistics and Energy & Utilities (MLEU), mapping client needs to Cognizant Moment digital engagement capabilities that communicate clear business value. You will be a valued member of the Business Development team and work collaboratively with pre-sales leads, solution architects, and account teams, and clients.

In this role, you will

• Act as a trusted domain advisor to pre-sales, sales, and solution architecture teams, articulating the differentiated business value of Cognizant Moment digital engagement solutions across MLEU and mapping platform capabilities (CX-CRM, CX-CDP, Product Analytics, Digital Engagement) to sector priorities.
• Proactively identify and qualify new business opportunities within MLEU accounts by translating Industry 4.0, connected mobility, digital supply chain, and energy-transition trends into actionable, client-facing insights and points of view.
• Support the end-to-end pre-sales cycle (RFI, RFP, and RFQ responses, solution demonstrations, and executive presentations) with sector-relevant win themes, value drivers, KPIs, and business cases tied to measurable ROI.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on industry-aligned solution capabilities, enabling sales, business development, and client teams through domain enablement sessions, reusable knowledge artefacts, and solution accelerators.
• Sense emerging MLEU opportunities and build market and competitive intelligence, leading cross-functional sprints and design-thinking workshops to prototype new solution hypotheses and shape practice-growth business cases.

Work model

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Chennai, Bangalore, or Hyderabad. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you must have to be considered

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferably in computer science or IT; an MBA or relevant master's degree is preferred.
• 10-15 years of experience in business development, pre-sales, or consulting, with at least 5+ years focused on business growth in MLEU industries and enterprise-level Customer Data Platform solutions.
• Working knowledge of monolithic and microservices application architecture (RESTful APIs, API integration).
• Proven experience supporting RFx responses, client presentations, and solution demonstrations.
• Strong executive presence with excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.

These will help you succeed

• MLEU industry and AI fluency across Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, connected/software-defined vehicles, EV and mobility, digital supply chain and logistics, and smart grid and energy transition, including how AI/GenAI is reshaping these sectors.
• Ability to translate MLEU-specific regulatory shifts (emissions standards, ESG/sustainability, energy-transition and safety regulations) into client-facing insights.
• Competitive awareness of key MLEU players (OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, 3PL/4PL providers, utilities and energy majors) plus platform vendors and integrators.
• Technology awareness across AWS/GCP/Azure, Salesforce Manufacturing/Automotive/Energy & Utilities Cloud, Adobe Experience Cloud and Real-Time CDP, and Contact Center/CCaaS.
• Exceptional proposal and bid-writing ability to produce insight-led, persuasive proposals, executive summaries, and bid artefacts that differentiate Cognizant in competitive evaluations.