What are the responsibilities and job description for the Consulting Manager - Pricing and Promotion Strategy position at Cognizant?
About Cognizant Consulting
Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice—we’re a global community of 6,000 experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?
About The Role
As a Manager Consulting, you will make an impact by analyzing client business challenges and objectives, developing recommendations, and chartering digital transformation journeys. You will be a valued member of the consulting team and work collaboratively with managers, primary teams, other stakeholders, and clients.
In This Role, You Will
We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
What You Must Have To Be Considered
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.)
Compensation
Applications will be accepted until 03/31/2026
Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice—we’re a global community of 6,000 experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?
About The Role
As a Manager Consulting, you will make an impact by analyzing client business challenges and objectives, developing recommendations, and chartering digital transformation journeys. You will be a valued member of the consulting team and work collaboratively with managers, primary teams, other stakeholders, and clients.
In This Role, You Will
- Provide consulting services, working closely with clients to solve complex business and technology challenges.
- Deliver outstanding client results and facilitate client teams in implementing recommendations that drive a great customer experience.
- Lead and support business development pursuits, including RFI/RFP responses and proactive proposal writing.
- Serve as a product owner/product manager in agile-based software delivery of business/IT transformation projects, managing a team of junior analysts.
- Lead joint working sessions with clients, develop user personas and user journeys, and construct business case scenarios in support of client agendas.
- Draw conclusions from market/industry trends and competitor insights, supporting go-to-market initiatives.
- Contribute to research, thought leadership articles, whitepapers, and supporting collateral.
- Mentor and groom junior consultants on consulting skills, customer experience accelerators, and participation in RFP responses and discovery programs.
- Build complex business cases in Excel/PPT to quantify the impact of merchandising operational shifts.
- Enable implementation of AI in pricing and promotions within client environments.
- Lead or support implementations of retail pricing and promotions solutions within ERP, merchandising systems, POS platforms, eCommerce and OMS solutions, and loyalty/customer engagement platforms.
- Integrate pricing data across item master, store, zone, and channel hierarchies, ensuring real-time or near-real-time price synchronization.
- Collaborate with integration and data teams to ensure clean, reliable pricing data flows.
- Partner with merchandising, pricing, marketing, finance, and store operations teams to understand retail business needs.
- Facilitate workshops to define promotion mechanics, eligibility rules, stacking logic, and exclusions.
- Advise business teams on best practices for retail pricing governance and promotions execution.
- Support change management, training, and rollout activities for store and corporate users.
- Enable reporting and analytics for promotion effectiveness, markdown performance, margin and profitability impact, and support integration with pricing optimization and demand forecasting tools.
- Identify opportunities to automate pricing and promotion decisions using data and analytics.
- Advise clients on software selection within the retail tech ecosystem (e.g., Revionics, Oracle Retail, Blue Yonder, SAP).
- Research and synthesize industry trends into actionable client advice.
We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
What You Must Have To Be Considered
- Master’s in Business Administration or equivalent from a reputed college.
- Graduation degree from a reputed college/university.
- 7-15 years total experience, with a mix of Corporate Retail (Merchandising/Pricing/Planning) and Management Consulting highly preferred.
- Advanced proficiency in data visualization (Tableau/PowerBI) and SQL.
- Familiarity with AI/ML terminology.
- Experience handling large-scale transformation projects around customer experience/e-commerce transformation programs.
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal) and facilitating skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to apply frameworks to design and present solutions.
- Experience designing user personas and user journeys.
- Capability to understand the big picture.
- Innovativeness and out-of-the-box thinking.
- IT/Digital literacy, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently.
- Subject matter expertise in Retail.
- Experience with onboarding products and managing product data.
- Deep familiarity with the retail tech vendor landscape.
- Ability to build and present complex business cases.
- Understanding of pricing architecture and market positioning.
- Experience supporting change management and training initiatives.
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.)
Compensation
- $130,000-$160,000
- This position is eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Employee assistance program
- 10 paid holidays plus PTO
- Paid parental leave and fertility assistance
- Learning and development certifications and programs
Applications will be accepted until 03/31/2026
Salary : $130,000 - $160,000