Senior Consulting Manager

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Cognizant Full time


The Company

Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 280,000 employees as of January 2021. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

Travel & Transportation Industry Consulting

The travel & transportation networks of a country are the arteries through which the economy thrives. In the UK, the travel & transportation sector is at the cusp of a digital revolution. The next-generation connectivity, data and digital technologies are transforming the way the travel via air, water, rail & road are designed, constructed, operated and maintained. Digital is enabling new opportunities to make travel more predictable, reliable and safe. But this is just the beginning. With the ambitious mandate of Net-Zero, we are embarking on an exciting journey for the travel & transportation sector.

Cognizant is a strategic partner for several travel and transportation sector companies in the UK and across the world. By harnessing the digital technologies, we are helping our clients innovate and transform their business and technology operating models. Powered by the Cloud, IoT, data and AI, our solutions are helping the transport sector clients to increase their efficiency, reliability, safety while delivering a world-class passenger experience. This is an exciting time to be at Cognizant and help us engineer modern businesses for our clients.

Job Description

The role involves providing subject matter expertise and domain advisory leadership in the capacity of a Consulting Partner for our clients in the travel sector, in addition to supporting the junior engineers, IT development team and Agile business analysts. This role will require to develop strategic relationship with client stakeholders, work with the client leadership to shape solutions and engage with the technical colleagues to deliver the solutions. The person will lead engagements with regards to development of IT systems and taking responsibility for engaging and creating a result driven relationship with various internal and external stakeholders /partners.

Key Responsibilities

  • Accountable for providing industry leadership to air & water travel customers including airlines, airports, cruises, etc.
  • Stakeholder management, responsible for developing positive, engaging and result oriented relationship with the client
  • Support application development, system integration, risk mitigation and support the client project engagement head, professional head of workstreams with technical expertise
  • Manage project stakeholders including IT delivery team, subject matter experts, business analysts and various client working groups
  • Provide technical leadership by coordinating and leading team meetings, managing the risk logs and taking ownership of the technical issues
  • Work with stakeholders and partners to mitigate the potential risks and any issues
  • Involve in IT development activities, system integration activities to ensure the effective delivery of the system
  • User acceptance / product acceptance process activities
  • Ensure the benefits realisation of technical developments by engaging with R&D governance forums and stakeholders' meetings

In addition, the resource will have budgetary responsibility to:

  • Ensure account profitability
  • Meet revenue targets specific to the project as per annual plan
  • Meet account growth targets

Key Skills Required

  • Airline, Airport or Cruises domain experience
  • Strong domain knowledge in the area of customer & commercial (CRM, Loyalty, Selling/Servicing channels, etc.), Operations (crew management, fleet operations, Airport/port operations, fleet handling, etc.), Maintenance (Maintenance support, cargo tracking, etc) and Back Office (ERP, HR, Finance, etc,) with deep expertise shown in two or more areas in the airline or cruise industry.
  • Minimum understanding of concepts of reservations, inventory management, distribution in the travel industry is a must.
  • Knowledge of various strategic and tactical maintenance activities, work planning, scheduling & forecasting activities, operational reports, compliance & governance reports related to fleet (ships, aircrafts) would be essential.
  • Awareness of the product development activities, Agile methodologies, requirement analysis, proof of concept development activities
  • Leading and managing consulting teams of size 5-10
  • Knowledge of UK air/water transportation policies, standards, regulations and national legislation
  • Experience of developing product road maps, technology and product strategies
  • Knowledge of the safety management and risk assessment process
  • Project management activities, governance methodologies, experience in IT system development for large government organisations
  • Experience in airline/cruise infrastructure management and safety critical environment
  • Experience in working with multiple disciplines with internal and external stakeholders
  • Good exposure to lead business development and account mining initiative to grow group revenue in travel & transportation space.
  • Strong foundational skills - communication, stakeholder management, forward planning; should have had ownership for project outcomes
  • Experience as a public speaker / industry speaker
  • Strong experience in shaping portfolios and business cases for the customer
  • Ability to interact with senior stakeholders at CXO Levels

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) 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 is ranked 185 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 or follow .

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