The Manager, Consulting Services is a “go to” practice leader that provides expert
guidance, advice, and development support to the Consulting management team
and their subsequent team members. This individual will assist the sales team with
sales activities such as orals, estimations, and Statements of Work (SOW’s). This
person works closely with Engagement Managers, Project Managers, Managing
Consultants, and leads, and acts as a liaison between the Consulting team and
executive management. This person will assist in identifying business needs,
staffing projects, and ensuring that the work/life balance of our consultants is
monitored and adjusted appropriately.
Responsibilities:
• Oversight responsibility for projects across the practice.
• Oversee and assist Engagement Managers and team members when
needed to identify project needs, reduce risk and develop solutions
and strategies.
• Support the RFP response and pursuit process for Consulting work.
• Assist in the recruitment, development, and management of a diverse,
remote team of consultants supporting Workday applications.
• Promote a team-oriented, challenging and innovative work
environment.
• Lead and manage Senior Managers and/or Managing Consultants to
ensure consultants are adhering to the activities, processes and
procedures outlined in Workday and the Cynergy Implementation
• Drive team and individuals to achieve high customer satisfaction
levels.
• Ability to establish immediate credibility with clients and within the
company; can build consensus and achieve goals through influence.
• Ability to build trust-based relationship and identify and foster business
development opportunities.
Perform role of mentor and coach.
• Analyze team skills and provide for cross training to maintain teams’
ability to staff projects appropriately.
• Advise management team on team members’ level of expertise and
availability.
• Establish direct reports’ goals and objectives during the bi-annual
review process.
• Direct the collection of performance feedback from customer and
engagement/project manager on a quarterly basis or upon completion
of project for your entire team.
• Direct the collection of all internal contributions for team members
• Drive bi-annual performance review process for the Consulting team.
• Review estimates for sales opportunities.
• Review SOWs for language and accuracy.
• Attend Orals and prospect meetings.
• Manage utilization to targets.
• Monitor the sales pipeline to ensure accurate capacity planning for the
team along with assigning resources to projects.
• Schedule regular 1:1 meetings with direct and indirect reports.
• Assess team member skills and maintain skills matrix.
• Meet with team members bi-annually to provide performance and client
satisfaction feedback.
Requirements:
• Possess 3-5 years of Workday (or other ERP) Consulting implementation
experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Proven experience leading a virtual team.
• Required characteristics: fast learner, detail oriented, decisive, and enjoy
fast paced work environments.
• Must work well within and across teams to get things accomplished.
• Possess sales engagement experience estimating and presenting
Salary and Other Compensation
Applications will be accepted until 03/9/2026 The annual salary for this position is between USD $169,769 - USD $212,441 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program , based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
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