Product Owner, Senior Consultant - Airline Domain (Dallas, TX)

at  Cognizant

ABOUT US

Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Minimum of Five years related work experience as a product owner.
• Undergraduate degree in related field (Computer Science, Engineering,) required.
• Airline domain knowledge is highly preferred.
• Prior experience in Loyalty is highly preferred.
• The embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Work as one, Raise the bar, Dare to innovate, Do the right thing, Own it

THE ROLE

Our Retail and Consumer Good Practice group is looking for a Product Owner to join our journey. We’re looking for someone who has experience in Loyalty and Airline Industry.
In this role, Product Owner is expected to have exceptional written and verbal skills, high coordination/organization/project management skills and soft skills (negotiation, persuasion, teamwork) with high Personal ownership.
We’re looking for Senior Consultant who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant’s industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.
Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; 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

• Strong Product Owner skills including backlog grooming, refinement, prioritization, feature / user stories creation, sprint planning, lead & contribute agile ceremonies.
• Contribute to co creation of product vision of strategy tied to portfolio goals.
• Keep a close track of the sprint deliverables. Work with the team and delivers features as per the milestones, lead sprint demo.
• Manages technology projects or multiple technical and Line of Business workstreams within the broader project or program. Develops, implements, and monitors deliverables across cross-functional teams. Contributes expertise to major project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Provides insight on best practices and common obstacles based on prior experiences.
• Communicates OKRs, product roadmap, upcoming releases project status and issues regularly to stakeholders, including leaders, team members, and senior managers.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships. Proactively fosters communication between internal and external project stakeholders to manage product dependencies.
• Performs continuous product discovery and offers valuable solutions that align to product OKRs. Conduct competitive benchmarking, uses data to define baselines, measure outcomes.
• Defines and maintains healthy backlog, operating consistently in adopting organizational standards and presents the backlog items to squads and external team members.
• Have consulting acumen to support business development and practice development initiatives by creating mindshare artifacts in the airlines and travel space.