Delivery Partner (Remote) - Advanced Technology Group

at Cognizant Technology Solutions in Missoula, Montana, United States

Delivery Partner Remote**Company Overview:Advanced Technology Group (ATG), a Cognizant Company, is a global leader in Quote to Cash advisory, implementation, and managed services to both mid-market and large enterprise brands seeking increased agility in the "everything as-a-service" economy. Implementing CRM, Quoting, and Billing systems are the core of what we do and we are the \#1 implementation partner for three leading providers of cloud or platform-based CPQ and Billing Solutions. We provide unique and differentiated value to our clients, our ISV partners, and our GSI partners, using years of domain expertise, a set of proprietary tools and intellectual property, and a refined set of delivery accelerators.Position Overview:As a member of ATG's Delivery Management Team, the Delivery Partner brings proven experience leading complex, multi-year, multi-million-dollar enterprise business transformation and software implementation programs. This role requires outstanding communication, planning and management skills with proven capabilities interacting across business and IT teams involving enterprise system transformation and consolidations. The Delivery Partner interfaces with C-level executives, as well as various project and business teams and must have the ability to drive challenging and time constrained plans to successful closure using established executive communication skills, program management processes, methods and tools, as well as possessing a high level of initiative and energy.Key Responsibilities:- Executive ownership over assigned programs and projects- Primary contact for Executive Business Stakeholder for project oversight and support- Monitor overall project health for project(s) duration- Support risk mitigation and client issues (internal and external)- Serve as point of escalation (internal and external)- Meet with PMs weekly to discuss project status and key issues- People manager for multiple Project Managers in Delivery Management Organization- Ensure alignment with project methodologies, best practices, and deliverables- Provide support for project team in removing internal / external roadblocks- Establish / align on governance plan and process with Business Stakeholder- Develops, adapts, and executes functional or departmental strategies to achieve key business objectives in area of responsibility- Responsible for creating functional strategies and objectives with little to no directional/strategic guidance from executive management- Proactively finds business needs and drives initiatives to completion including authoring SOWs and driving negotiation- Has a wide breath and in-depth experience and expertise to allow problem-solving across a variety of technical, interpersonal, and organizational issues- Ability to communicate high-priority, high-impact, and/or complex topics to large groups of internal, client or partner organizations- Drive alignment with client and vendor partnersPreferred Knowledge and Skills:**- Experience working in an IT environment with an emphasis on vendor relationships, billing systems and internal systems is highly desired- Familiarity with multiple quote-to-cash platforms solutions and software packages, (e.g. quoting, order management, provisioning, billing, care, etc.)- Possess a good understanding of software and application development, infrastructure, database and system design- Possess a high level of self-initiative, drive and motivation, along with organizational skills, while being a team player with a high level of accountability and ownership- Possess the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment, on a large-scale business transformation/conversion initiative with set deadlines- Essential for success in this role is the ability to clearly identify, define and orchestrate resolution of critical path and long lead issues/items- Executive level communication skills and managing governance processes