Senior Manager - Travel & Hospitality Consulting with Property management system experience - Cognizant Technology Solutions

Senior Manager Consulting, Cognizant Consulting

Travel & Hospitality Consulting Practice

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

Cognizant Consulting is the global consulting organization of Cognizant, 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 Travel & Hospitality consulting practice is looking for a Senior Manager to join our journey. We’re looking for someone who has demonstrated expertise in working with hotel clients to transform and grow their customer facing operations, owner and stakeholder profitability, and internal operations and systems. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for building client relationships, supporting the growth and development our practice and consulting colleagues, and business development.

Our team works with clients across the full spectrum of the Travel & Hospitality sector – including Airlines, Hotels, Restaurants, OTAs, and Travel Services providers – to help develop functional strategies and build new capabilities that elevate performance in customer and employee experience, operational efficiency and effectiveness, and ways to leverage emerging technologies.

We’re looking for Senior Consulting Managers who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. At the Senior Manager / Associate Director Level, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our consulting 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!

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Engagement Lead and manage teams of Consultants, Senior Consultants, and Managers for one or more commercial projects to ensure effective negotiations, well-aligned solution-delivery-to-plan, clear engagement governance accountabilities, profitability, and overall client satisfaction

• Supports the business development activities of senior level leaders within an account or region, prices the consulting component of engagements, coordinates resources, and provides business development guidance to Consultants, Senior Consultants, and Senior Consulting Managers (e.g., accurate delivery estimates, storylines, proposal coordination and development, client presentations)

• Assesses proposed solutions from an opportunity expansion and strategic growth perspective, including partner / alliance involvement

• Lead client workshops and support business analysis interviews

• Monitor and supervise the daily activities of project staff, including consulting and non-consulting team members

• Enrich client partnering and anticipate client needs based on a solid understanding of emerging industry requirements and/or technological breakthroughs in Travel & Hospitality industry

• Ensures the appropriate alignment and collaboration of consulting teams and individuals to support project requirements and activities in the focus area and within larger Cognizant and client ecosystems

• Serve as a people leader, supporting the recruitment, onboarding, upskilling, and mentorship of your colleagues in Consulting; participate in people development and community-building activities

• Guide development, provide feedback, and conduct performance reviews

• Advocate for and establish appropriate recognition for Consulting within projects, and negotiate applicable consultant rates in project sizing that correspond to the value Consultants contribute to engagements

• Develop and manage the capture, communication, and sharing of intellectual property (IP) and project artifacts for a focus area, domain area, or practice management area

• Exercise leadership in the development of Consulting service offerings

• Leverage collegial networks across Cognizant (e.g., sales, service line community, offshore delivery) and external partners to innovate solutioning or resolve issues

• Support and contribute to the establishment of thought leadership in the industry, to promote Cognizant’s brand and to drive additional opportunities for Cognizant

• Recruits, hires, develops, and manages consulting talent

• Mentors and supports the career development of promising candidates and interns

• Acts as a resource for team members and colleagues, based on extensive consulting and management experience, and industry expertise

Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud PMS solutions, with a priority focus on Oracle Opera Cloud PMS, Agilisys PMS, and Hotel Key PMS

• 10 + years of consulting, professional services, digital strategy development, advisory, or transformation programs serving Hospitality clients operating in a client-facing capacity serving and leading external client engagements

• A proven track record of program delivery leadership in a client-facing role, with at least 2 of these (though ideally more) in leading digital technology team

·       Experience in successfully developing and leading consultant teams in consultant tasks (e.g., planning, task structuring, analysis, solution delivery)

• Works with Cognizant account stakeholders (e.g., Client Partners, Client Relationship Managers), technology partners (e.g., Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft) and other business allies to identify consulting opportunities or develop winning proposals

• Contingent on experience and expertise, demystify emerging technologies, and translates innovations (e.g., computer-aided medical diagnostic, Gen AI, Machine Learning, hybrid cloud) into the business impact benefits clients can understand

·       Regularly contribute to the practice by developing solution offerings, leading research on industry trends, adding to knowledge repositories; development of reusable consultative strategies and solutioning approaches in support of business development and expansion activities

·       Bachelor’s degree in a relevant business or technical discipline; MBA or Master’s or advanced business degree preferred   

• Travel Required: Up to 50%

• Onsite Requirements: Hybrid, including work from Cognizant and client locations

• Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes

• The embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way

 

Work Authorization

• Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (US Citizenship, H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

 

 

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Mar 04 2024

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 www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.

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