Key skills
Project governanceScope managementSchedulingProject financial managementRisk managementIssue managementDependency managementSDLCGxPStakeholder engagementBudgetingResource PlanningChange ManagementCommunicationDecision Making
About this role
Cognizant is a global community of experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. The Consulting Manager will lead complex programs, manage project governance, and ensure successful delivery aligned with business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Establish and lead project governance structures to engage stakeholders, manage risks and issues, and enable effective decision making to ensure successful delivery
- Own and manage project scope, ensuring alignment with business objectives and governing scope changes and value impact through appropriate controls
- Lead integrated planning efforts, including development of work breakdown structures, scheduling, resource allocation, and dependency management
- Oversee financial management including cost estimation, forecasting, and tracking performance against baseline plans
- Drive risk, assumption, issue, and dependency management while ensuring successful delivery of business value, adoption, and transition to operations
Requirements:
- Experience leading complex projects or program delivery in a consulting or professional services environment
- Strong expertise in governance, scope management, scheduling, and resource planning
- Proven experience managing project financials including forecasting, budgeting, and cost tracking
- Demonstrated ability to manage risks, issues, and dependencies across cross-functional teams
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills across business and technical audiences
- Experience operating within structured project delivery frameworks such as SDLC and formal governance models
- Exposure to regulated environments and adherence to established policies and processes (e.g., GxP)
- Strong decision-making capabilities leveraging governance and structured frameworks
- Experience driving stakeholder alignment and transparent communications through reporting and governance forums
- Ability to support change management, adoption, and business value realization initiatives