Senior Consultant-Organisational Change Management

Cognizant ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Cognizant Digital Strategy helps clients to reimagine, redefine, and transform their businesses to create new sources of value and become digital leaders. We do this by working in a true partnership relationship, helping our clients become digitally relevant and enabling them to disrupt their own markets, with unparalleled levels of insight, innovative solutions and delivery velocity. Our entire organisation is focused on turning clients' initial ideas, visions and strategies in to successful realities. This is achieved by employing the best people in the business and working with clients to build a single-minded focus and pragmatic, hands-on approach to delivering business strategy, technology and organisational change. Cognizant Digital Strategy is part of Cognizant Business Consulting, a $750 m consultancy practice, itself part of Cognizant Worldwide Limited, a world leading business consulting, IT services and outsourcing solutions provider - a top performer on Nasdaq and an established leader in Forrester's research in Business and Digital Transformation as well as one of the World's Most Admired Companies. As a consultant in one of Cognizant's most strategic, important and fastest-growing practices, the successful candidate will be able to integrate well and develop their leadership within a global matrixed organisation, working collaboratively in agile environments with subject matter experts and technologists. This role is to support the growth of Digital Adoption (DA) through working across domains and delivery life cycles from Ideation to Support. Contributing to our Digital Transformation revenue, improved client satisfaction and overarching Cognizant Digital Business (CDB) goals. Key responsibilities will include: * Owns the digital maturity adoption helping our clients transition from just "doing digital" to "being digital" * Changes their business process and functions, implementing Digital learning & development capabilities, leveraging innovative communication tools and techniques while utilising Digital accelerators * Encompasses how we reset the dynamics of power and decision-making to unleash digital experimentation; how we incubate and nurture clusters of cross-functional talent around a specific customer segment or opportunity; what the new workplace looks like; how we orchestrate people and machine tasks to enhance productivity and innovation * Collaboratively develop Insight driven change initiatives to drive accelerated adoption and foster cultural change * Demonstrates personal credibility as a digital adoption change agent and Subject Matter Expert able to demonstrate this within the DA team and on complex, evolving, challenging client engagements (e.g. managing cultural change, digital comms. platform change) * Demonstrate confidence in articulating and delivering Digital Adoption engagements through the use of methodologies and tools for requirements and data gathering driven by Digital accelerators * Provide a range of client facing business adoption skills including strategic change planning, project planning, digitally enabled comms and engagement, reporting, workshop design and facilitation, data analysis and problem solving, change management diagnostic interventions and suctioning Experience and skills required: * Relevant experience gained in a leading management consultancy * Experience in Digital Change Management execution (engagement, comms & learning) * A track record of designing and implementing Digital Transformation initiatives * Ability to design Digital Organisational Change strategy and deliver it * Ability to design and conduct Digital Maturity Assessments and execute skills required to develop and run colabs, incubators, etc. * Experience in the following areas: Organisational Design, Stakeholder Engagement and Management, Training Needs Analysis, Training Design & Delivery, Communication Strategy, Design and Execution, platform driven change interventions, skills and competency mapping, change agent network development and implementation, Job Impact Analysis, Organisational Behaviour, Culture Change Analysis * Successfully worked on multiple organisational consulting engagements (Digital engagements where possible) * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills * Experience in senior level stakeholder engagement * Experience supporting transformation from strategic design to implementation * Stakeholder workshop design and co-facilitation experience * Relevant graduate qualification 2:1 and above or equivalent experience * Flexibility to travel within the UK and occasionally further.