Cognizant

Consumer Goods - Client Relationship Manager

Cognizant • $95K — $115K *
Chicago, IL 60629In-Person
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in business relationship management with enterprise clients
  • Strong background in the food services and hotel industry
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills for hybrid work environments
  • Analytical skills to interpret performance metrics and feedback
  • Proficient in using collaboration tools and client management software
  • Ability to work independently while coordinating internal teams
  • Commitment to ethical practices and inclusive engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Manage client portfolios with structured relationship planning
  • Drive satisfaction by identifying service improvement opportunities
  • Conduct regular account reviews to discuss performance insights
  • Translate client needs into actionable service roadmaps
  • Oversee issue resolution and track escalations
  • Collaborate on proposals reflecting client context and management principles
  • Align strategies with sector insights for operational efficiency
  • Monitor relationship health indicators and convert them into actions

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work environment
  • Opportunities for professional development and certifications
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Work on strategic client accounts in a high-impact role
  • Access to advanced client management tools and resources
Full Job Description
Job Summary

This hybrid role focuses on building and maintaining strategic client relationships to drive long term business value through business relationship management practices. The client relationship manager will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and clients to understand needs align services and solutions and enhance satisfaction and retention. This role includes day time collaboration across functions structured account planning and proactive issue resolution while ensuring consist

Responsibilities
  • Manage complex client portfolios by developing structured relationship plans that align client objectives with organization capabilities and measurable business outcomes
  • Drive client satisfaction by proactively identifying service improvement opportunities and coordinating cross functional responses that address emerging needs and reduce operational friction
  • Coordinate regular account reviews with clients to present performance insights discuss upcoming initiatives and agree on clear priorities that support long term value creation
  • Guide the translation of client business requirements into actionable service roadmaps by partnering with internal teams and ensuring timely communication of expectations and milestones
  • Oversee issue resolution processes by tracking escalations facilitating root cause analysis and ensuring corrective actions are implemented and monitored for sustained improvement
  • Collaborate with commercial and delivery teams to shape proposals that reflect client context business relationship management principles and realistic commitments that can be reliably achieved
  • Align relationship strategies with food services and hotel domain practices by incorporating sector insights into recommendations that support operational efficiency and guest experience enhancements
  • Support hybrid working practices by organizing structured communication rhythms digital touchpoints and onsite interactions that maintain continuity and trust with client stakeholders
  • Strengthen internal understanding of client environments by sharing business relationship management findings and fostering alignment between technology operational and commercial groups
  • Monitor key relationship health indicators such as satisfaction retention trend drivers and feedback themes and convert them into clear actions that enhance client partnership resilience
  • Promote adoption of business relationship management frameworks and tools across teams to standardize engagement methods and improve transparency on commitments dependencies and delivery risks
  • Coordinate internal governance forums to ensure that commitments made to clients are tracked resourced appropriately and adjusted in response to changing business or operational constraints
  • Document and communicate lessons learned from major engagements so that future client interactions benefit from improved practices and more consistent outcomes across the portfolio


Qualifications
  • Possess extensive experience in business relationship management including structured stakeholder analysis value mapping and collaborative planning for complex enterprise clients
  • Demonstrate strong background engaging with food services and hotel domain organizations with the ability to contextualize operational challenges and service models in client discussions
  • Exhibit advanced communication and negotiation capabilities with a focus on clear expectation setting conflict management and transparent follow through across hybrid work environments
  • Apply analytical skills to interpret account performance metrics risk indicators and qualitative feedback and convert these insights into targeted actions that improve relationship health
  • Utilize collaboration tools and client management platforms effectively to maintain accurate records of engagements follow ups and commitments that support consistent day shift operations
  • Show proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision while coordinating diverse internal contributors to deliver cohesive outcomes for strategic client accounts
  • Display commitment to ethical practices sustainability considerations and inclusive client engagement approaches that reinforce organization purpose and broader societal impact


Certifications Required

Certified Business Relationship Manager CBTL or equivalent business relationship management certification preferred


Additional employment information
Compensation 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.

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.

About Cognizant

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of core benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. TriZetto provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers.

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Learn more about Cognizant
Size
340,400 employees
Market Cap
$28.7 billion
Industry
Information Technology
Net Income
$1.3 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+6.5%
Revenue
$16.6 billion
NASDAQ
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