Strategy Advisor

As Strategy & Change Advisor you have the responsibility to guide our customers from a Business, HR and Finance (Digital) perspective, providing expert advice, leading engagements and workstreams. You also have a significant contribution to practice development and to the coaching and mentoring of customers and colleagues in their jobs. As a Strategy & Change Management Consultant, you will receive coaching and direct guidance from our Senior Advisory leadership, as well as working from a self-starting perspective, whilst providing exemplary customer service to internal and external stakeholders. This includes customers, sales teams, consulting teams, engagement managers, and the Collaborative

leadership team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Consulting Leadership – act in a lead capacity on Strategy and Change engagements including leading assessments and meetings, developing deliverables, providing guidance and direction to other Advisory team members, and delivering trusted business advisor support to clients.

• Organizational Strategy - partner with senior executives to understand organizational perspectives and recommend best-fit methods to execute business strategies, improve operations and performance, and optimize roles and responsibilities.

• Strategic Change - partner with senior executives to define the strategy, business initiatives, and organizational changes needed to gain leadership alignment, enable change leadership, promote stakeholder and employee engagement, enable further organizational change programs and plans.

• Technology Adoption – work with clients to understand the people issues associated with technology implementations, specifically Workday and ancillary systems including but not limited to role re-definition, skill gaps, and change readiness.

• Technology Implementation – partner with senior executives and program managers to understand an organization's inherent capability regarding governance, decision making, data integrity, and technology development to design strategies to set the stage for successful technology implementations.

• Business Development – work collaboratively with internal sales teams as well as external sales teams such as Workday to understand the needs of the client and develop proposals, respond to RFP’s, assist in writing SOW’s, and present at conferences and trade events to market the Collaborative brand.

• Knowledge Management – develops and maintains methodologies, tools, and templates to support strategic and implementation engagements from insights gained in prior experiences, researching best practices, and utilizing a continuous feedback loop with clients to ensure deliverables are timely and relevant.

• Workday Knowledge – maintains a strong relationship with implementation consultants to understand and incorporate Workday changes and updates into recommendations and deliverables during strategic engagements. Provides knowledge transfer during transition from strategic engagement to implementation engagement ensuring client requirements, decisions, and culture are shared to enable a seamless transition between projects.

Skills and Requirements:

• 4+ years relevant experience in a Management Consulting team-oriented environment, or in a comparable internal Advisory role in HR and/or Finance and/or Digital Business Transformation, Data Architecture Consulting, Enterprise Architecture Consulting

• Bachelor's Degree required: Master’s Degree preferred, or equivalent experience

• High emotional intelligence

• Excellent communication skills both oral and written

• European language skills preferred, but not essential

• Self-Management including attention to detail, organizational and time management, strong inclination to self-development

• Ability to work in ambiguous situations, strong flexible and adaptable inclinations

• Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel if needed

Why choose Cognizant:

• Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
• Opportunity to do great work
• Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
• Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
• Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
• An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs

Cognizant Core Values:

• Work as One: We think beyond roles, relying on each other’s strengths to win as a team.
• Raise the Bar: We always aim for excellence in how we work and what we deliver.
• Dare to Innovate: We push boundaries and take chances to reimagine what’s possible.
• Do the Right Thing: We all lead with integrity and always make the ethical choice.
• Own It: We own the outcomes for our company, colleagues, and community.