Senior Consulting Manager, Energy (Transmission & Distribution)

at  Cognizant

THE COMPANY

Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world’s leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 280,000 employees as of January 2021. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Experience in shaping, leading and creating opportunities for consulting engagments in the Energy Industry
• Deep Industry experience in UK Transmission and Distribution market as a subject matter expert
• Expertise in regulatory compliance
• Experience of leading Business Consulting – Advisory Services, Process Consulting & Business Analysis engagements in the T&D domain
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders at different levels within client organisation
• Ability to foresee risk, identify dependencies and managing them in advance
• Strong Communication, Team / interpersonal and Analytical /Problem Solving skills
• This role operates in a dynamic and rapidly expanding environment, requiring flexible thinking and regular collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders

ABOUT THE ROLE

Energy & Utilities in The UK are going through a transformation journey with the focus on Field services, enhanced customer experience (through digital and data enablement), Connected technologies/IoT and green energy (electric vehicles, heat pumps etc.). Cognizant has engagements with multiple energy & utilities clients in Ireland where we are helping them being customer obsessed and lead the transformation initiatives to build new offerings, solutions and innovative business models aligned to the market trends and regulatory commitments.
Cognizant has seeking an established UK Transmission and Distribution Consulting lead/Associate Director as part of our Utilities Industry consulting group where we are helping out customer in this domain being customer obsessed and lead the transformation initiatives to build new offerings, solutions and innovative business models aligned to the market trends and regulatory commitments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engage with business stakeholders to ensure compliance with industry regulations and upcoming changes in electricity transmission and distribution market structure
• Review, analyse and provide solutions around UK electricity network domain specific problem statements in the functional areas of strategic spatial planning, design standards, regulatory approval, planning approval, supply chain and skills, communities and engagement and outage planning
• Build a team of T&D specific domain consulting capability with ability to lead short term consulting engagements on its own or as part of a wider Transformation programme as Domain/programme lead
• Understands and supports business development, pre-sales, requirement gathering workshops for RFI/RFPs and proactive client opportunities with direct consulting and non-consulting revenue impact
• Thought leadership and creation of IP that can be leveraged to drive non-linear growth and drive business outcomes.