Project Manager - Cognizant

About Cognizant Consulting

Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant's consulting practice-we're a global community of 5,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we're looking for our next colleague who'll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?

About the role

As a Project Manager, you will be supporting the delivery and ongoing operation of digital systems for the organization. The position combines traditional ICT project management with vendor/contract management, procurement, budgeting, cybersecurity remediation, and technology lifecycle management.

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 to 4 days a week in a client or Cognizant office. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

What you must have to be considered

• Proven experience independently managing ICT projects or digital products end-to-end, from planning and implementation through transition and operational support.
• Working knowledge ofAgile, Scrum and Waterfalldelivery approaches.
• Experience working end-to-end with product teams, engineering teams and service providers/vendors.
  
  These will help you succeed

• Strong end-to-end ICT project managementAble to independently drive projects from planning through implementation and operational support, while managing schedules, risks, budgets, testing, releases and competing priorities.
• Strong vendor, contract and financial management . Comfortable managing vendors, maintenance contracts, procurement activities, invoices, budgets and service requests, including challenging vendor estimates and commercial assumptions when necessary.
• Excellent stakeholder management with a hands-on mindset. Able to work effectively across product, engineering, business and service-provider teams, communicate clearly, escalate issues concisely, and independently follow problems through to closure.

We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.