Job Description:

Relevant Experience Levels:

• Sr. Consultant – 8 to 12 years
• Manager Consulting – 12 to 18 years
• Senior Manager Consulting – 18 to 24 years
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Locations: Hyderabad, Kochi, Chennai, Pune, Noida/Gurgaon

Education: Engineering/equivalent (mandatory), MBA (highly preferred)

Mandatory Skillsets and Experience:

• Successful track record of managing complex digital programs and should have independently handled end to end program management.
• Led large teams of 20-30 members and managed project delivery.
• Contributions to Presales/Business Development activities, handling RFP/RFI engagements through Deal Evaluation, Solution defense, POC/Pilot Delivery, storyline creation and end to end Bid Management
• Hands-on experience in Go-To-Market strategy formulation, business planning and business strategy
• Understand the industry trends, business imperatives, strategic growth areas and underlying technology trends and play the role of thought leader contributing to design improvements.
• Collaborate with customers leading enterprises on solution identification, discovery workshops, demos & POC presentation. Also, should have contributed to proactive deal identification.
• Collaborate with the client and Cognizant Tech & Design teams to ideate new experiences & features, elaborate features into epics and stories, document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participate in product discovery phase and provide insights & enhancements that would benefit the end customer.
• Take complete ownership of the product and monitor the product performance through relevant metrices.
• Exposure in creating business requirement document / functional requirement document.
• Experience in creating workflows, user stories and driving sprint grooming sessions.
• Experience working on large deals and business pursuits.
• Ability to effectively perform both in a team and as an individual
• Should be proactive and self-starter with ability to prioritize tasks vs time.
• Strong customer orientation and excellent research and problem-solving skills with a focus attention to detail. Should have played client facing roles in previous projects.
• Balanced temperament towards work – a blended characteristic of patience and always striving to achieve better value for the client and organization.

Domain Skills

• Experience in consulting-oriented roles in media and entertainment industry, business/strategy, process or technology areas
• Good understanding of key media broadcasting, entertainment, studios business value chains, workflow systems
• Independently working and coordinating with the key stakeholders involved in the media processes.
• Good understanding of the Media supply Chain & workflows (Understanding on MAM ,DAM ,video Formats ,codecs ,Video QC ,Automatic Quality Control, Localisation -Dubbing , Subtitling process & Flows ,Edits workflows  )
• Exposure to areas like Contracts and Rights management, Ad sales, Rights and Royalties, Content Delivery, OTT Workflows, programming & scheduling, playout systems, MAM, DAM, media finance
• Understand the industry trends, business imperatives, strategic growth areas and underlying technology trends

Desirable Skills:

• Exposure and understanding of key digital battlegrounds such as IoT, Edge, Analytics and Cloud.
• Experience in using AGILE/ SCRUM principles and techniques
• PMP / CBAP / CSPO / CSM certifications are desirable.
• Exposure on Digital tools and platforms in Infra and application space
• Working knowledge in project management tools like JIRA, Confluence
• Working knowledge in workflow modelers