Product Owner, Consulting Manager - Hybrid 3 days/week in Chicago or Atlanta

Cognizant North America; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Product Owner, Consulting Manager to drive transformation in logistics and transportation. This role involves partnering with clients to align business strategies with technology solutions, overseeing advisory engagements, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional results. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in the transportation domain, consulting experience, and the ability to foster long-term relationships. Join a passionate team dedicated to making a significant impact in the industry while enjoying a hybrid work environment that promotes collaboration and innovation.

Benefits

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

Qualifications

• Must have Transportation or Supply Chain domain experience.
• Experience in facilitating meetings and workshops across teams.
• Ability to work independently or collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients to connect business goals to capability development.
• Define product strategies focused on transportation planning.
• Manage end-to-end requirements of products.

Skills

Transportation domain experience

Supply Chain domain experience

Consulting experience

Advanced problem-solving skills

Good communication

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Product Owner, Consulting Manager
Logistics and Transportation
Hybrid - Chicago or Atlanta, 3 days/week

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. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

COGNIZANT CONSULTING
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide several Business and IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions.

The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

THE ROLE
We're looking for a Product Owner, Consulting Manager who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Consulting Manager (which is an Manager level position) this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Within the Consulting group is our Post-Merger Integration Advisory practice, which assists the Fortune 2000 in developing a competitive advantage for their organizations by strategically aligning IT with business objectives and emerging industry needs. We are seeking people who are passionate about transformation, want to make an impact, and love working together to deliver flawless results for an end-client. Specifically, we are looking for a Manager to join us in a leadership role on our team.

As Consulting Manager, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we're passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with clients to establish a clear connection between business goals/strategies to capability development, and implementation to achieving desired business value.
• Define product / platform strategies and solutions focused on transportation planning and execution, including logistics planning, route optimization and fleet management.
• Understand the scope and define business requirements with the business stakeholders.
• Map business processes to identify improvement and transformation opportunities.
• End to end requirements management of products (requirement gathering, conduct requirement walkthrough sessions).
• Prepare functional use cases, detailed user stories.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence.
• Backlog grooming.
• Validate UX / UI for every feature / function.
• Demonstrate functionalities to client product management teams (internal/external).
• Review test plans prepared by QA Team.
• Support UAT.
• Assist in resolving scope and requirements related queries.
• Manage change requests / enhancements / features.
• Work with cross-functional teams with different time zones.
• Advanced problem-solving skills.
• Ability to articulate requirements (good communication).
• Create and maintain long-term working relationships with technology teams, functional counterparts, vendors, and business partners.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Must have Transportation or Supply Chain domain experience in either Ocean, Air, Freight, Road, or Rail.
• Must have Consulting experience.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience in facilitating meetings, workshops, and ceremonies across teams.
• Ability to work in independently or in a team-oriented, collaborative environment at different client sites.
• Regularly contribute to the practice by developing practice initiatives, research on industry trends, knowledge repositories; developer reusable consultative strategies and solutioning approaches in support of business development and expansion activities.
• Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes.

WORK AUTHORIZATION
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

SALARY AND COMPENSATION
The annual salary for this position is between $81,450 - $129,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, 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.