[Hiring] Consulting Principal – Advisory @Cognizant

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As a Consulting Principal – Advisory, you will make an impact by leading client engagements, driving solution delivery, and ensuring strategic growth for Cognizant’s consulting practice. You will be a valued member of our consulting team, collaborating with cross-functional teams, clients, and senior stakeholders. • Serve as Engagement Lead, managing teams of consultants for commercial projects to ensure effective negotiations, solution delivery, governance, profitability, and client satisfaction. • Assess proposed solutions for opportunity expansion and strategic growth, including partner and alliance involvement. • Drive collaborative solutioning across cross-functional teams, aligning interests, building shared goals, and enforcing governance. • Oversee daily activities of project staff, including consulting and non-consulting team members. • Review project deliverables for quality assurance, requirements alignment, and solution integration. • Lead project post-mortems to extract lessons learned and identify intellectual property for repurposing. • Apply strategic thinking and a transformational mindset to ensure value-add opportunities for clients. • Drive issue resolution and escalate engagement challenges to appropriate decision-makers. Qualifications • 10+ years of strong industry experience in consulting, digital strategy development, advisory services, or transformation programs, with extensive client-facing experience. • Bachelor’s degree in information technology (IT) or equivalent in a relevant business or technical discipline. • Proven experience developing and leading consultant teams in planning, task structuring, analysis, and solution delivery. • Experience managing teams using an onsite/offshore model. • Proficiency in business/financial data modeling and analysis. • Familiarity with various consulting frameworks, processes, and methodologies. Requirements • Extensive experience in client management and relationship building at the executive level. • Experience working in global organizations and/or with global clients. Benefits • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance • 401(k) plan and contributions • Employee stock purchase plan • Employee assistance program • 10 paid holidays plus PTO • Paid parental leave and fertility assistance • Learning and development certifications and programs Apply tot his job