Senior Consulting Manager

Cognizant; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 98,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior Consulting Manager to drive digital transformation projects in the Energy & Utilities sector. This role focuses on client partnerships, managing consulting engagements, and leveraging extensive industry expertise to lead teams and enhance business performance. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, proven leadership capabilities, and a background in Energy & Utilities.

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

• Extensive experience in the Energy & Utilities industry.
• Ability to lead teams and interact with business leadership.
• Skilled in promoting business case development.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Consultants, Product Owners, and Business Analysts.
• Define business process flows and new system requirements.
• Act as a bridge between engineering and business teams.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Engineering or Management degree

Job description

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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, is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

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, is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. 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 a number of Business/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 is increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we’re growing!

At Cognizant Consulting, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry-leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate technology products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights, and experiences.

The Role

Our Energy & Utilities Consulting group is looking for a Sr. Consulting Manager to join our journey.

We’re looking for Sr. 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 Sr. Consulting Manager (which is a Sr. 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.

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!

Key Responsibilities

• Consulting engagements: Lead a team of Consultants, Product Owners, and Business Analysts.
• Digital transformation projects: Define business process flows, new system requirements, and capabilities.
• Requirement elicitation: Work with client stakeholders to gather, manage, and prioritize the product backlog.
• Product vision and roadmap: Create and maintain the product vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Architecture, UX, and Engineering Teams to support and share knowledge of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Client interaction: Act as a bridge between engineering scrum teams and the business team, ensuring clear communication and understanding.
• Business process understanding: Demonstrate a deep understanding of business processes and emerging business trends.
• Energy & Utilities expertise: Ability to speak the language of Energy & Utilities Subject Matter Experts and Product Managers.
• Problem-solving: Thrive in unknown territories of business problems, create hypotheses, and set the direction.
• Technical skills: Strong analytical and technical skills, with an understanding of emerging Energy & Utilities technologies.
• Requirement gathering: Gather and analyze requirements and features, create conceptual solutions, and produce key outputs such as As-Is and To-Be Business Processes, Use Cases, Logical Data Models, Scenarios, Business Rules, Non-Functional Requirements, and Data Quality Requirements.
• Agile methodology: Experience as a product owner or scrum master, maintaining a healthy backlog and prioritizing user stories for development.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience in the Energy & Utilities industry
• Ability to lead teams and interact with business leadership on a regular basis
• Skilled in promoting the benefits of business case development to stakeholders
• Leadership experience, including the ability to manage team dynamics and address conflicts
  
  

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree required; Engineering or Management degree strongly preferred

Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in US without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Salary And Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until May 23rd, 2025.

The annual salary for this position is between $98,853.00 – $158,500.00 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Business Consulting and Services

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