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MBA Senior Consultant - Cognizant Consulting (Canada)

Employer
Cognizant
Location
Toronto, Canada
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jan 6, 2023

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Job Function
Other
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors
MBA Senior Consultant - Cognizant Consulting (Canada) Position Overview
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. As a Senior Consultant, you play a key role with responsibilities that range from analyzing a client's issues/objectives and interviewing key client stakeholders to developing recommendations and authoring presentations. You will participate and lead teams in both strategic advisory and transformation projects.
Responsibilities
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  • Work directly with our clients, providing consulting services designed to help them solve their most complex business and technology issues
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  • Deliver outstanding client results, direct client personnel, prepare work plans and facilitate client teams to implement recommendations
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  • Work as a product owner/manager in agile based software delivery of transformation projects
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  • Facilitate joint working sessions with clients, develop value propositions and business cases in support of clients' agendas
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  • Draw conclusions from the market/industry trends, client issues and support go to market initiatives for Cognizant
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  • Contribute to research, design and writing of articles/whitepapers and participate as a team member in collateral development
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  • Support business development activities in the form of gathering best practices for RFI/RFP responses and writing proposals
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  • Proactively support team building and on-boarding efforts via mentoring
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  • Consultants must choose an industry (vertical) or function (horizontal) group as a primary focus area to serve as a subject matter expert to clients. Senior Consultants are expected to dive deep in various industries and business processes within their focus area
Qualifications
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  • Currently pursuing an MBA from a top tier business school. Degree must be completed prior to joining.
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  • Overall pre-MBA work experience of 3 to 6 years
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  • Significant work experience in North America
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  • Fluent English and local language skills (as required for international positions)
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  • Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
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  • Solid Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Access and Project are required
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  • Willingness to travel
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  • Desired Skills
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  • Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment, and manage multiple assignments
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  • Ability to work as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple time zones when necessary
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  • Ability to develop client relationships
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  • Strong work ethic with a commitment to client service excellence
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  • A strong interest in technology and digital modernization
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  • Ability to define business requirements and capabilities to enable the building of software
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  • Strong project management, presentation, and facilitation skills
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  • Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
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  • Domain expertise in one of more of the following industries: Banking & Financial Services, Communications/Media/Technology, Insurance, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Manufacturing/Logistics, Energy/Utilities, Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel & Hospitality.
Location
Toronto, ON Canada. Applicants must be willing to relocate to this major geographic area.
Start Date
MBA Senior Consultants will start in June or August 2023. While we will attempt to honor start date preferences, business need and position availability will determine final start date assignment?of June or August. Exact start dates will be communicated with enough time for you to plan effectively.
Business Unit Description
Cognizant Consulting is a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. We are 5,500 experienced consultants strong and growing. As Technology becomes a more significant part of our clients' products and services, there is even more demand for us to provide counsel, challenge our clients' strategies in a respectful way, bring thought leadership, advance our clients' growth agenda, and make them more competitive. Cognizant is known for transforming IT, but in addition to IT, our Industry consultants are taking a fresh look at our clients' business model, their products and services every day.

Our consulting team connects our clients' aspiration to the art of the possible and the broader Cognizant team delivers the future state. Our consulting team serves as the bridge between technology and business outcomes. As part of the team, you will be driving continuous innovation and benefits realization from strategy development through execution.

We serve the following industry domains:
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  • Banking & Financial Services
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  • Communications, Media & Technology
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  • Healthcare
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  • Insurance
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  • Life Sciences
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  • Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities
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  • Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel & Hospitality

We have opportunities within the following areas:
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  • Organizational Change Management
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  • Mergers & Acquisition
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  • Transformation Enablement
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  • Enterprise Processes
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  • Technology Modernization
Why Choose Us?
Cognizant delivers solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of our associates. You will be supported high-caliber experts and employ some of the most advanced and patented capabilities. Our associates' diverse backgrounds offer varied perspectives and fuel new ways of thinking. We encourage lively discussions which inspire better results for our clients.

If you're comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you.
Work Authorization
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring company sponsorship now or at any time in the future.

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Job Posting : Aug 08 2022

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 @Cognizant.

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