Consulting Manager

Cognizant; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Consulting Manager to lead SAP-driven transformation programs for process and industrial manufacturing clients in a hybrid delivery model.

You will guide cross-functional teams, translate client processes into SAP designs, and ensure compliant, efficient SAP solutions across production, procurement and finance systems.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, program governance, and delivering measurable improvements across enterprise-scale engagements.

Qualifications

• Require extensive experience in SAP solutions relevant to manufacturing such as planning, execution, quality, maintenance and related areas.
• Require strong background in process manufacturing and industrial manufacturing environments with exposure to complex plant operations and compliance.
• Require proven experience in managing consulting assignments for large enterprise clients with emphasis on structured delivery and stakeholder engagement.
• Require ability to interpret manufacturing key performance indicators and map them to SAP functionalities that support measurable improvement.
• Require strong communication and facilitation skills to collaborate with business users, technical experts and management in hybrid working arrangements.
• Nice to have hands on exposure to SAP upgrades, migrations, or cloud deployments that modernize manufacturing landscapes.

Responsibilities

• Manage end to end SAP consulting engagements for process and industrial manufacturing clients ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory expectations.
• Drive discovery and blueprint phases to translate client manufacturing processes into robust SAP designs that support efficiency, quality and safety.
• Coordinate cross functional SAP teams to configure, test and deploy solutions that optimize production planning, shop floor execution and inventory control.
• Guide client stakeholders on adopting standardized manufacturing best practices in SAP to improve throughput, reduce waste and enhance traceability.
• Oversee integration of SAP modules with plant systems and enterprise platforms to ensure accurate data flows across procurement, production, maintenance and finance.
• Monitor project progress, risk and issue logs to ensure timely delivery of milestones within agreed quality and budget constraints.
• Develop reusable SAP templates, accelerators and process maps tailored to process manufacturing and industrial manufacturing scenarios.
• Collaborate with business users to design and validate test cases that reflect real life production scenarios and compliance needs.
• Provide direction on SAP master data strategy for materials, batches, equipment and work centers to support reliable manufacturing analytics.
• Support change management initiatives by preparing training content and guiding key users through new SAP enabled ways of working.
• Analyze production and operational data from SAP to identify improvement opportunities and recommend continuous enhancement initiatives.
• Engage with internal teams to share project learnings and contribute to knowledge repositories focused on manufacturing and SAP topics.
• Align daily work with company sustainability and safety goals by promoting SAP processes that reduce resource consumption and support responsible operations.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Hybrid working

KPI interpretation

Tools

SAP ERP

SAP modules

Job description

Consulting Manager role in a global organization focusing on SAP driven transformation programs for process and industrial manufacturing clients. The role involves managing complex hybrid delivery engagements guiding cross functional teams and ensuring robust SAP solutions that enhance operational efficiency quality and compliance for enterprise scale customers.

Consulting Manager role in a global organization focusing on SAP driven transformation programs for process and industrial manufacturing clients. The role involves managing complex hybrid delivery engagements guiding cross functional teams and ensuring robust SAP solutions that enhance operational efficiency quality and compliance for enterprise scale customers.

Responsibilities

• Manage end to end SAP consulting engagements for process and industrial manufacturing clients ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory expectations
• Drive discovery and blueprint phases to translate client manufacturing processes into robust SAP designs that support efficiency quality and safety
• Coordinate cross functional SAP teams to configure test and deploy solutions that optimize production planning shop floor execution and inventory control
• Guide client stakeholders on adopting standardized manufacturing best practices in SAP to improve throughput reduce waste and enhance traceability
• Oversee integration of SAP modules with plant systems and enterprise platforms to ensure accurate data flows across procurement production maintenance and finance
• Monitor project progress risk and issue logs to ensure timely delivery of milestones within agreed quality and budget constraints
• Develop reusable SAP templates accelerators and process maps tailored to process manufacturing and industrial manufacturing scenarios
• Collaborate with business users to design and validate test cases that reflect real life production scenarios and compliance needs
• Provide direction on SAP master data strategy for materials batches equipment and work centers to support reliable manufacturing analytics
• Support change management initiatives by preparing training content and guiding key users through new SAP enabled ways of working
• Analyze production and operational data from SAP to identify improvement opportunities and recommend continuous enhancement initiatives
• Engage with internal teams to share project learnings and contribute to knowledge repositories focused on manufacturing and SAP topics
• Align daily work with company sustainability and safety goals by promoting SAP processes that reduce resource consumption and support responsible operations

Qualifications

• Require extensive experience in SAP solutions relevant to manufacturing such as planning execution quality maintenance and related areas
• Require strong background in process manufacturing and industrial manufacturing environments with exposure to complex plant operations and compliance
• Require proven experience in managing consulting assignments for large enterprise clients with emphasis on structured delivery and stakeholder engagement
• Require ability to interpret manufacturing key performance indicators and map them to SAP functionalities that support measurable improvement
• Require strong communication and facilitation skills to collaborate with business users technical experts and management in hybrid working arrangements
• Nice to have hands on exposure to SAP upgrades migrations or cloud deployments that modernize manufacturing landscapes
• Nice to have experience with analytics or reporting tools integrated with SAP to provide insights on production performance and quality trends
• Nice to have prior involvement in process optimization lean initiatives or continuous improvement programs enabled by SAP capabilities