What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world. At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story. The Role: As a Change Manager in our Consulting Practice at Cognizant, you will drive successful change initiatives for our clients, ensuring smooth and effective implementation to achieve lasting benefits. This role requires strategic thinking, excellent communication skills, and a deep understanding of change management principles. In the Change Manager role, you can expect to: + Collaborate with Cognizant and client teams to deliver effective and sustainable project/organisational outcomes, through a structured change management approach with a focus on the people side of change - including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organisation structures. + Support business development efforts including responding to RFI/RFPs, client presentations, development of solutions, resource estimates. + Play a key role in ensuring projects (change initiatives) meet objectives on time and on budget + Drive faster employee adoption, higher utilisation and greater proficiency of the changes that impact employees in the organisation to increase benefit realisation, value creation, ROI and the achievement of expected results and outcomes. To apply for this Change Manager role, your soft skills, expertise and experience should include: + Minimum five years’ experience in structured change management across multiple industries. + Experience with large-scale organizational change and transformation programs. + Should be accustomed to leading change management activities in IT/Business/Transformation environments + Prosci, APMG or other change management certification desirable + Ability to rapidly assimilate into client cultures and analyse challenges. + Identify and manage anticipated resistance from key stakeholders + Confident in presenting to all levels of staff up to senior managers, leadership team + Creative problem-solving skills. + Exceptional communication and active listening skills. + Ability to influence and move toward a common vision. + Flexible, adaptable, and resilient. + Acute business acumen and understanding of organisational issues and challenges + Familiarity with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle + Strong planning, strategy, and problem-solving skills. Our Benefits: Joining Cognizant will give you the opportunity to learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry, while having your finger on the pulse of emerging industry trends and working on the cutting edge of technology in your field of expertise. We recognize that our people perform at their best when they feel valued as significant contributors and that is why at Cognizant, taking care of our employees is a priority: + You can pursue innovative career tracks and opportunities here + You can enhance your professional development through education and dedicated training + We’ll give you the skills you need to keep pace with the changing workplace while our compensation, benefits and wellness packages help you stay healthy and plan for the future. At Cognizant, we engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life because we're dedicated to making a lasting impact. Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com (https://inc-word-edit.officeapps.live.com/we/www.cognizant.com) or @cognizant. Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.