Qualification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or other relevant field (Required)

• • Advanced Degree in Business (Preferred) Tier 1 MBA (Strongly Preferred).

Responsibility:

Problem and Scope Definition:

• • Provide primary support for formulation of problem statement and definition of scope for her/his assigned area(s).

• – Work independently and bring thought leadership to bear in order to identify root cause of the issue.

• – Work with engagement management to define scope of work in context of larger project.

• – Construct problem statement to include problem description, those affected and benefits of solving the problem, and implications of not doing so.

• – Support the identification of project risks and mitigation.

Requirements Gathering:

• – Demonstrate exceptional requirement gathering techniques with minimal direction from engagement management.

• – Design, conduct and facilitate requirements sessions.

• – Organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document.

• – Write wellformed, validated requirements and manage changes.

• – Use appropriate tools to record, track and manage requirements.

Business Analysis:

• • Review and analyze relevant documentation to ensure the understanding of an organizations function and capabilities.

• • Lead relevant research to increase understanding in support of developing comprehensive solutions.

• • Serve as liaison between stakeholders—demonstrate understanding of client’s structure, policies, and operations.

• • Logically structure recommendations and supporting data to formulate a solid, logical and understandable business case.

• Utilize appropriate business modeling techniques to represent and graphically depict various activities, processes and data These could include:

• – Business process modeling.

• – Process flow modeling.

• – Data flow modeling.

Engagement Delivery:

• • Deliver exceptional engagement delivery support.

• • Develop and managing project plan(s) as needed.

• • Identify and manage engagement risks for area of responsibility.

• • Independent of close supervision, develop high quality deliverables that are “clientready” the first time.

• • Proactively share ongoing point of view and perspectives based on experience/expertise.

• • Display strong listening and communication skills when interacting with client and team.

Engagement Governance:

• • Develop governance and communication plans that facilitate smooth delivery of project.

• • Provide engagement lead with consistent and frequent updates through written and verbal communications.

• • Effectively track and/or escalate project risks and issues.

Thought Leadership:

• • Independently research industry trends and support to shape innovative ideas and opinions for practice thought leaders.

• • Actively contribute to research, development and authoring of consulting mindshare ie articles, whitepapers, and other collaterals via traditional and social media channels.

Business Development

• • Support RFI/RFP responses and other business development opportunities as needed.

Customer Relationship Management:

• • Build and maintain trusted relationships with client stakeholder(s).

• • Be seen as a “go to” resource that client wants to bring back for future engagements.

Practice Development:

• • Draw conclusions from market/industry trends and client experiences to support in the design and build of new go to market service offerings.

• • Support service line development and case study support through the gathering of industry best practices.

Revenue Management:

• • Ensure personal utilization targets are achieved by working standard hours and actively seeking new opportunities well before current engagement ends (if possible).

Knowledge Management:

• • Assist in creating client and/ or practice related materials (deliverables, solutions, industry best practices, standards and other knowledge artifacts) to Cognizant's knowledge management repository.

People Management:

• • Actively support recruitment for campus candidates through preplacement discussions.

• • Help to onboard and mentor junior associates.

• actively support their ongoing development.

• be known as a leader among peers