Participate in the pre sales stage (eg preparation of marketing materials and collaterals, client calls, demos) proposals and business development activities to ensure functional expertise.
Create solutions based on the customer needs and review estimates to prepare for RFIs and RFPs.
Seek opportunities in mining the relationship to provide lasting value to the customer and share the same with the account team.
Product Consulting
Analyze and gather all requirements and manage the same across the project lifecycle to ensure the same are met during delivery.
Conduct high level gap analysis / fitment analysis of requirements against product from the Cognizant portfolio.
Arrive at possible solution alternatives that factor in gap resolution, impact on related technical areas, acceptability of the solution to the user community, technical feasibility and efficiency (based on experience, secondary research, inputs from other project case studies, and tweaking the available product capabilities).
Translate the requirements into product customization requirements.
Suggest implementation framework and methodology.
Present the solution, Cognizant capabilities etc to the client.
Provide demos to the customer on the products, when required.
Project Management
Interact with customers to identify customer expectations and ensure all customer issues are resolved appropriately.
Prepare estimation guidelines.
Review estimates and impact analysis, etcas prepared by the Senior Product Specialist.
Prepare and track project plan.
Perform key project management activities like planning, work allocation and tracking, endtoenddelivery, daytoday interaction with onsite, status reporting, performance reporting, quality assurance activities, etc.