Manager Consulting (Senior Manager Level) - Product Owner with Airline Domain Experience

Manager Consulting, Product Owner with Airline Domain Experience

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Travel & Hospitality Consulting Practice

Location - Seattle, WA

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.

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.

The Role

Our Travel & Hospitality consulting practice is looking for a Manager Consulting 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 of our practice and consulting colleagues, and business development.

We're looking for Consulting Managers who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence : 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development.

This means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, and guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client.

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, solution delivery, governance, profitability, and overall client satisfaction.
• Support business development activities, price consulting components of engagements, coordinate resources, and provide guidance to team members.
• Lead client workshops and support business analysis interviews.
• Monitor and supervise the daily activities of project staff.
• Enrich client partnerships and anticipate client needs based on industry requirements and technological breakthroughs.
• Serve as a people leader, supporting recruitment, onboarding, upskilling, and mentorship of colleagues.
• Guide development, provide feedback, and conduct performance reviews.
• Support the establishment of thought leadership in the industry.
• Recruits, hires, and manages consulting talent.

Qualifications

• Strong Product Owner skills including backlog grooming, prioritization, feature / user story creation, and sprint planning.
• Experience managing technology projects or multiple technical workstreams.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Minimum of eight years related work experience as a product owner.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field (Computer Science, Engineering) required.
• Airline domain knowledge is a must.
• Good understanding of data platforms and queries.

Work Authorization

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.

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