Senior Manager, Organizational Change & Training

The purpose of the Organizational Change & Training Senior Manager role is to provide value to the Organizational Change & Training (OC&T) practice by 
pursuing organizational goals, operating with a customer-first mindset, and 
exemplifying the company core values in an effort to achieve meaningful results.

Key Responsibilities:

• Takes broad ownership of strategic decisions regarding project and workstream direction. Organizes interactions across projects and workstreams for mutual benefit of multiple customers.

• Provides leadership & oversight to projects connected to their area of expertise.

• Promotes and is accountable for large internal initiatives that touch multiple parts of the company, generally associated with project delivery or cross-practice dependencies.

• Leads complex sales efforts and business development pursuits on behalf of the OC&T practice.

• Easily and immediately recognized as an expert in the room.

• Deftly manages and resolves disagreements between others. Able to speak well to audiences of all types, sizes, and backgrounds.

• Drives recovery of customer relationships that may be at risk.

• Shows the highest level of verbal and written communication skills, as evidenced by facilitating difficult customer conversations.

Experience and Skills:

• 5+ years’ experience with Workday 

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Psychology, Communication Studies, Business Administration, Human Resources, Management Information Systems, or related fields (or additional 5 years’ Workday experience in a corporate implementation setting)

• Current Workday Core HCM or Core Financials certification or ability to acquire it within 28 days of offer

• Public Sector experience is desirable

• PROSCI certification

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Why choose Cognizant:

• Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
• Opportunity to do great work
• Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
• Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
• Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
• An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs

Cognizant Core Values:

• Start with a point of view: I apply my expertise to gain trust and to lead our clients forward.
• Seek data, build knowledge: I use facts to guide my actions and decisions.
• Always strive, never settle: I act with agility and creativity, determined to stay one step ahead.
• Work as one: I deliver solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of Cognizant.
• Create conditions for everyone to thrive: I include, enable, and invest in everyone around me.
• Do the right thing, the right way: I always make the ethical choice.