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Cognizant

Senior Manager - Data Governance Consultant

Cognizant, Teaneck, New Jersey, United States,


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 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.

The Role

Our Retail, Consumer Products Consulting Practice group is looking for a

Data Governance Consulting Senior Manager

to join our journey.

We’re looking for

Consulting Senior 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 Manager, Consulting

(Associate Director level), this means leading a team of Consultants through a client-facing engagement, managing escalations, and serving as the owner of a workstream; maintaining expertise in your domain; contributing to the sales process through RPI development, client presentations, financial modeling, pricing strategy, and flawless delivery; creating service offerings and/or client partner training materials; and contributing to PeopleCare initiatives, recruiting, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

Consult directly with our clients and provide advisory services designed to help them solve their most complex business and technology challenges.

Manage and direct a small-to-medium team of Consultants through client engagement, analysis, business case development, and the development of focused and contextual solutions.

Lead communications with project stakeholders, including status reporting, priority setting, and timely issue resolution.

Contribute to the thought leadership of your practice and contribute to one or more practice initiatives or service offerings.

Maintain expertise in your industry or capability group: Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel and Hospitality.

Encourage and facilitate the business development activities of project teams through activities such as opportunity validation, strategy approval, RFI support, storyline, proposals, & client presentations.

Engage with client contacts to generate leads and identify new opportunities for consulting services.

Recognize, capture, store, and promote the sharing of engagement collateral and IP.

Support the implementation of one or more practice initiatives or service offerings.

Serve as a people leader within Consulting, supporting professional development of the team.

Conduct recruitment activities, support onboarding, contribute or conduct performance reviews, lead career growth discussions with Business Analysts, Consultants, and Senior Consultants.

Qualifications

Implement data management standards, policies, and processes enhancing the quality and completeness of the organization’s data.

Work with the enterprise architecture team to support design, implementation, and delivery of enterprise Data Governance solutions.

Collaborate with relevant teams and promote key data governance deliverables/assets, including data policies, data standards, and data management roles.

Leverage tools to catalog data and ensure this information is properly stored and consumable to meet business data and compliance needs.

Function as the primary IT Data Steward, working directly with the Data Governance Program Manager.

Collaborate with subject matter experts and data stewards to define and implement data strategy, policies, controls, and programs.

Attend Data Governance sponsored meetings for Data Stewards and with other committees as deemed necessary.

Understand complex business processes and relationships to determine downstream impacts to data and applications.

Identify areas for data quality improvements in collaboration with other data subject matter experts.

Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support data cataloging solutions.

Document and support deployment activities.

Report on status of the toolset(s) and products which support the described data processes.

Excellent client-facing and team player skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Work Authorization

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $160,000 - $180,000 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance.

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.

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