Associate - Projects Job in Bangalore at Cognizant

Cognizant is hiring for the role of Associate - Projects!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Understand specific client requirements and analyze them.
• Conduct detailed costing based on time and effort estimation if required.
• Provide inputs for client demos/presentations/collaterals (such as capability deck and case study), communication & pitch.
• Provide support to onsite employees during the deal-making process.
• Participate in geographic-specific events/seminars if required.
• Provide input for creating responses to RFPs/RFIs.
• Provide support during proposal development.
• Conduct research on industry-specific solutions and new platforms required.
• Participate in seminars /conferences.
• Prepare collaterals, publications, technology papers, etc for distribution under guidance from the team lead.
• Conduct market research to identify new solution areas.
• Create a business case for a new solution.
• Share business case with Senior Consultant/Team Lead for inputs.
• Detail out new solutions as required map solution developed to client space.
• Provide support for project execution involving new solutions if required.
• Followup to closure in order to implement change and escalate to supervisor if required.
• Update knowledge articles in the knowledge management repository.
• Create knowledge articles on the problem workaround solutions.
• Maintain knowledge management database.
• Prepare collaterals, publications, technology papers, etc for distribution and submit to supervisor for review.
• Conduct a gap analysis to analyze the assets and would-be state of the business.
• Provide guidance in creating solutions for the gaps.
• Confirm the technical feasibility of the solution.
• Design end-to-end solutions for the client and plan for integration.
• Provide a workaround as needed where the standard solution is not required.
• Map solution/ deliverables to service level agreement (SLA) for delivery.
• Understand the context of different clients to suitably structure solution implementation.
• Detail out customization requirements/ configuration changes required.
• Obtain approval and validation on the solution developed.
• Implementation and Testing.
• Configure the system based on the requirements.
• Carry out testing before handover to the users.
• Test development objects and give feedback to the technical team.
• Conduct a pilot for the solution developed.
• Review and obtain signoff deliverables.
• Manage deadlines for functional deliverables.
• Create data migration and cutover plan.
• Conduct workshops to get a buy-in on recommendations.
• Guide users in uploading data into the system.
• Support analysis of data issues and route for resolution.
• Create test cases based on the knowledge of the domain/product.
• Conduct test workshops.
• Plan for and conduct system testing based on the scenarios using various testing tools as required.
• Configure/change configuration based on the ticket.
• Carry out testing before handing it over to the users, test development objects, and give feedback to the technical team.
• Meet project SLAs, and give ticket resolution feedback to the customer.
• Support the creation of a business case for an IT initiative.
• Provide inputs for calculation of the project TCO and KPIs such as ROI.
• Provide input towards the determination of project risks and recommendations on product and platform.
• Understand stakeholders' pain points, business objectives, and organizational culture.
• Draft a communication plan to be circulated to the various interest groups within the organization and get it reviewed by the supervisor.
• Based on requirement study and gap analysis, analyze process/framework anomalies and deficiencies and make recommendations.
• Redesign processes/framework based on recommendations.
• Keep track of timelines and deliverables with respect to the functional area.
• Communicate with client and project team when necessary.
• Contribute towards driving functional change management in engagements as needed convincing/guiding the customer to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
• Support organizational change management processes for respective work streams.
• Manage client relationships from start to execution.
• Follow through on commitments, and achieve timely resolution of issues.
• Conduct initiatives to meet client expectations.
• Approach clients proactively to better understand issues and needs.
• Work to expand the professional network in the client organization.
• Share the business value of services to win the engagement.
• Create training courses and supporting artifacts on the training server such as demo presentations.
• Configure the system for training.
• Assist in the selection of representative employee groups for training.
• Plan the training calendar.
• Conduct training with the help of the academy.
• Organize team initiatives on a periodic basis.
• Provide guidance to new members of the team.

Requirements:

• Qualification: Masters Of Business Administration