AdresManager Consulting – Product Owner (Life & Group Insurance, Claims)
Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid)
Insurance Consulting
ABOUT US
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com
COGNIZANT CONSULTING
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we’re growing!
The Role
We’re looking for Manager, Consulting who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Manager, you will analyze our insurance clients' business and technology challenges and build creative solutions to drive transformation. You will be responsible for participating in the requirements analysis process, developing strong working relationships with clients and team members, and building industry and domain expertise. Specifically, as a Senior Business Analyst, you have the opportunity to deliver immediate value to clients by working with a project-based team of consultants.
- Responsibilities:
- Product Owner develops and drives the product vision and strategy as one of the closest people in the business to the customer, providing constant feedback to the team and helping to set and drive toward the vision.
- Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate ‘the story’ effectively to key stakeholders and the rest of the team.
- Own the end-to-end product strategy from inception and determine business value once solution enters production.
- Ensure alignment of product features and stories, i.e., review, give feedback, and prioritize user stories in line with own vision.
- Continuously improve backlog with the team, ensuring all items are clearly described, estimated, and prioritized (Organize the Backlog into Features and expected PI’s)
- Guide business Analysts with necessary requirements, rules and known operational dependencies.
- Ensure customer-driven design considering user pain points & usability test results, using market & industry knowledge as well as continual research, to deliver a well-positioned product.
- Approve each feature and provide valuable feedback for the team.
- Drive sprint and release plans together with the Scrum Master and organizational technology teams.
- Exercise strong decision-making mandate from executive group to own product end-to-end.
- Work with Tech lead to build a modular & reusable solution.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar field.
- Background in Management Education - Master’s degree preferred.
Required Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in an agile environment, preferably as a Product Owner.
- Experience in group and life insurance industry with good knowledge in claims handing.
- Experience managing product development deliverables such as requirements gathering, user story writing, acceptance testing, and product launches.
- Should own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for your assigned Agile team, and ensure alignment between roadmap and product-level Objectives and Key Results.
- Should have consulting skills, including effective communication, expectation management, and results delivery.
- Deep knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with team members, leadership, and business partners.
- Execution focused with the ability to distill business needs into a clear execution plan.
- Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; the embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way.
Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid)
Candidate must be located within commuting distance of NJ, NYC & PA or be willing to relocate to the area.
Work Authorization
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
Salary and Other Compensation:
Applications will be accepted until 3/29/2024.
The annual salary for this position is between $75,000.00 to $145,000.00 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Job Location : Newark, New Jersey, United States || New Jersey, New Jersey, United States
Employee Status : Full Time Employee
Shift : Day Job
Travel : No
Job Posting : Mar 06 2024
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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