Product Manager- Retail, MDM experience

Cognizant North America

life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)

United States, Tennessee, Nashville

Jan 03, 2025

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 ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients 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 increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

The Role

Our Retail and Consumer Good Practice group is looking for a Product Manager to join our journey. We're looking for someone who has experience in the Retail/CPG industry.

We're looking for a Consulting Manager who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant's industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects. 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!

JOB DESCRIPTION

Cognizant Consulting vertical is a high performing organization with an expanding client base and is increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. As a Senior Consultant or Manager Consulting, you will shoulder multiple responsibilities that range from analyzing a client's business challenges/objectives and interviewing key client stakeholders to develop recommendations and chartering their digital product information transformation journey. You will participate and lead teams in both strategic advisory and transformation projects.

Roles and Responsibilities include:

* Provide consulting services, while working very closely with our clients, helping them solve their most complex business and technology challenges

* Deliver outstanding client results, while facilitating client teams in implementing recommendations that drive a great customer experience

* Lead and support leaders in business development pursuits such as RFI/RFP responses and writing proactive proposals

* Work as a product owner/product manager in agile based software delivery of business/IT transformation projects and manage a team of junior analysts

* Lead joint working sessions with clients, develop user personas and user journeys and construct business case scenarios in support of clients' agendas

* Draw conclusions from the market / industry trends, competitor insights and support go to market initiatives for Cognizant

* Contribute to research and writing of Thought leadership articles/whitepapers and develop supporting collaterals

* Proactively support team building and on-boarding efforts via mentoring

* Consultants must have good subject matter expertise on one or more of the following industries - Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel, Hospitality

* Consultants must have good expertise with taxonomies, data quality, data dictionary, business rules, and data governance

* Consultants must have experience with onboarding products and managing product data

* Consultants must have experience with one or more PIM solution: Stibo, Informatica, or Syndigo

* Mentor and groom junior consultants on consulting skills, customer experience accelerators and on participating in RFP responses and discovery programs

Qualification:

* Masters in Business Administration or equivalent from a reputed college

* Graduation degree from a reputed college/university

Experience

* 12-20 Years' experience in Business Analysis/Product Management/ Consulting role (Retail / Consumer goods / Travel / Hospitality) + IT exposure

* Worked in Consulting or as an industry SME in Retail/Consumer Goods/Travel/Hospitality sector

* Experience in handling large-scale transformation projects around Customer experience/E-Commerce transformation programs

Key Skills

* Good communication skills (written and verbal) & Facilitating skills

* Good interpersonal skills

* Knowledge & be able to apply frameworks to design and present a solution

* Design user personas and user journeys

* Capability to understand the big picture

* Innovativeness & Thinking Out of the Box

* IT/ Digital literacy, Analytical & Problem solving

* Able to work independently

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $130,000 - $158,000 depending on the 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.