The Role

Our growing practice in Canada is seeking to add Project Managers to enrich our client offering and drive value on a new exciting engagement. We are seeking people who are passionate about transformation, want to make an impact, and love working together to deliver flawless results for an end-client.

This is not your ordinary Project Manager role! This role is part of our highly-regarded Advisory Practice, which not only helps clients with a solution, but also delivers the desired outcome. We work across industries, including Insurance, Banking, Retail, Life Sciences and more. In this role, you’ll be part of the strategy, and you’ll also work on the execution, which means you’ll see results and have experience on large-scale, dramatic change from beginning to end. Our projects are complex and interesting, and we’re looking for people who go beyond the workstream ownership and status updates to proactively develop team standards, unstick problems, and be an enabler and strategist while running best practices to help the team meet our goals. We’re looking for someone who is a true Project Manager and also has the right technical knowledge to bring complex transformations to life.

We rescue large-scale transformations, and we’re looking for key members of our growing team to help us deliver our solutions to an expanding client base. Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with Project Management, are a self-starter, and enjoy shared success in a client-facing environment; if you can see around corners, assess priorities, and manage risk; 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!

Responsibilities

• Consult directly with F200 clients to develop solutions as a key part of complex digital and technology-based transformation programs that deliver business value 
• Serve as a true management consultant, guiding clients and designing the right solutions to meet their business goals
• Create and maintain a project plan; participate proactively in developing and maintaining (client) team standards and best practices
• Track and ensure visibility of historical team metrics and progress of the iteration and release
• Emphasize the need for incremental releases, iterative work and prioritization by value and risk
• Partner with project leads to ensure the team is producing a solution that meets established standards, procedures, and practices
• Collaborate with project leads to aggressively address issues, risks, and mitigation plans
• Support staffing and manage the team required to deliver the engagement
• Proactively identify and remove blockers, limit work in progress, and prevent distractions
• Facilitate frequent retrospectives; share metrics to identify and implement improvements
• Monitor the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release
• Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation
• Highlight product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team
• Measure product performance as well as value delivered to clients in order to make adjustments where necessary
• Develop and implement action plans for building and sustaining demand for a product

 Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of work experience in Project Management; a consulting background is a plus
• A positive, collaborative attitude and the proven ability to work and lead in a team-based environment to deliver flawless results for external clients
• The ability to set and manage a project plan; a command of project management principles and a track record of applying them to drive transformation successfully
• A desire to work with enterprise-level clients and the ability to manage through complexity
• A strong technical background is needed to understand the intricacies of technical aspects from the various initiatives and manage issues coming from their integration
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with technical and product teams
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills essential for team-based working; the ability to exercise humility with confidence and demonstrate leadership and professionalism at all times
• The ability to manage stakeholders management in a fast-paced, client-facing environment 
• The ability to deploy Agile Methodologies
• PMP Preferred
• Experience in the banking or insurance industry is a plus, or the equivalent experience working with highly regulated industries 

Work Authorization

• Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without company sponsorship