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The Role: Cognizant is seeking a Senior Engagement Manager - ServiceNow for a fulltime role with us. As the primary point of contact for customer projects, the Sr Engagement Manager ensures the highest level of customer satisfaction; coordinates, manages and ensures completion of all project tasks; and leads status calls, project meetings, and other client and stakeholder meetings to ensure project outcomes are successfully delivered. The Sr Engagement Manager establishes customer requirement agreements, prepares deliverables, and leads teams to successfully deliver project scope, on budget, and to client satisfaction. The Sr Engagement Manager provides critical, day-to-day support across project teams.
In your first few weeks in this role, you can expect to:
Lead a project successfully and in a timely manner from inception to deployment and control. Work closely with stakeholders to identify issues with their processes and come up with innovative solutions to increase efficiency and accuracy in the process. Set precise goals and objectives based on a strategic planning process. Build strong relationships with the customer by setting the right expectations, providing regular updates, and being assertive when things go wrong. Take the lead in main customer meetings ensuring all stakeholders get involved, the agenda is successfully completed, and communicated objectives are achieved. Ensure customers have a clear understanding of our delivery methodology and all the tools in place for having visibility of project status and progress. Prepare and timely send executive summary reports communicating the milestones achieved and an updated summary of project plans, risks, action items, decisions, issues, and change orders. Guarantee that knowledge transfer processes objectives are clearly understood by the customer and coordinate along with the Trainer & BPC and Customer Project Manager the execution of all training activities or tasks. Keep stakeholders involved according to their level of responsibility and their expectations ensuring they are consulted and informed. Ensure the customer formally recognizes the completion of the project by ensuring all planned work has been done, all deliverables have been completed, and all hand-offs were executed. The Engagement Manager is responsible for reducing the engagement of the team in post-project activities that are not supported by a budget and any other misunderstandings that might affect the overall customer satisfaction and perception about the completeness and quality of our work. To apply for this role, your soft skills, expertise, and experience should include:
10+ years of professional, project leadership experience. 5-8 years of experience as an Engagement Manager / Project Manager role with ServiceNow (professional services experience preferred). Project estimation experience and budget management. Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Proven project history maintaining high customer satisfaction in complex environments. Strong history of problem-solving. Proficient with MS Office and other productivity and project management solutions. You'll receive an excellent salary and benefits package for your knowledge, expertise, and flexibility. At Cognizant, taking care of 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. Please get in touch with our Cognizant team today to apply and register your interest in this full-time position. We're looking forward to meeting you.
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