Senior Consultant- Supply Chain Management

at Cognizant Technology Solutions in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Senior Consultant, Cognizant Consulting
Supply Chain Management
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.
COGNIZANT CONSULTING
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization 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 Supply Chain Management group is looking for a Senior Consultant to join our journey. We're looking for someone who has solid understanding of supply chain management (demand & supply planning).
We're looking forSenior Consultantswho can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant's industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.
Our 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!

Qualifications
*Experience in supply chain roles and solid understanding of supply chain management (demand & supply planning) principles and interest in working on sophisticated problems
*Facilitating requirement workshops
*Experience in a data science, data analyst, business analytics, business intelligence or comparable role
*Experience with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, preferably SAP
*Knowledge of SQL
*Visualization best practices experience in designing reports and dashboards
*Ability to bridge functions, particularly technical and non-technical worlds
*Strong verbal/written communication skills with attention to details and organization
*Shown success on delivering results on multiple projects in an agile and fast-paced environment
*Excellent problem solving, storytelling and interpersonal skills with the ability to explain technical details in an easy-to-understand language for the business owners
*Independent, self-motivated, organized, able to multi-task in time-sensitive environments, and skilled in communication, facilitation, and collaboration
*Amgen Documentation & SOPs on GCP practices

Responsibilities
Based on experience, support or own and manage one or more project workstream(s), including deliverables, while adhering to budget, timelines, and client engagement guidelines;
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