Director - FS Program Management Consulting - Cognizant Technology Solutions - London

Job description
Purpose of theRole:
• To Programme manage major transformationprogrammes
• To perform delivery assurance reviews ofin-flight programmes and to make appropriate recommendations such that theywill be acted upon by senior management
• To take a leading role in the growth of ourbusiness by identifying and managing opportunities to support our clientsstrategic objectives



Skills &Experience:

• Extensive consulting experience
• Demonstrable record of achievement in managingmajor IT and/or business transformation programmes
• Conducted pre-sales activities, developed newclient relationships, qualified opportunities, created and delivered proposalsand successfully closed new business
• Has carried both a utilisation and revenuegeneration target (approx. M per annum) , and has achieved performanceobjectives in these and other dimensions
• Understands consulting as a business and candemonstrate competency in the ability to translate customer/businessrequirements into business solutions
• Experience in managing a consulting practice withP&L responsibilities, including setting budgets and developing newprofitable service lines
• Demonstrated ability to lead people; organize,develop and motivate a team; get results through others; excellent projectmanagement/planning skills
• Excellent communication, facilitation,collaboration and problem solving skills
• In depth banking experience, gained in a Tier 1retail or investment banking environment
• Wide network of senior level contacts in the UKbanking community.



Competencies:

• Delivers and leads best practice in portfolio,programme, project management across assignments that will have significantclient impact
• High level of credibility and influence with keyclient decision makers
• Manages team dynamics, communications, andstakeholder politics and conflicts
• Able to operate in ambiguous and complex clientenvironments, clarifying goals and objectives for all stakeholders
• Develops and empowers team members though formaland informal feedback
• Acknowledged as authority in specific knowledgedomains
• Exemplary professional and corporate image
• Highly adaptable in dynamic environments
• Constantly exceeds expectations
• Delivers concise and effective communicationswith authority
• Inspires trust and confidence
• Courageous and decisive
• Maximises personal utilisation on complex, largeand high risk assignments

Contribution toDevelopment of PMC’s Practice:
• Provides high value contribution to PMC serviceofferings
• Identifies and recruits suitably skilled andexperience project and programme managers at all levels into the PMCpractice
• Acts as a mentor to staff, leads by example
• Takes a leading role in the management of the UKPMC Banking Practice. Qualifications
Engineering / science graduates

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