Client Partner - Physical AI

About The Role

As a Client Partner
- Physical AI, you will make an impact by owning and growing strategic client relationships for our Physical AI offerings—AI systems that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world across robotics, connected devices, and autonomous and embodied platforms—serving as the senior commercial owner who both sells our offerings and manages the full profit-and-loss for those accounts. You will be a valued member of the MLEU team and work collaboratively with delivery, engineering, and product teams.

As a Client Partner
- Physical AI, you will make an impact by owning and growing strategic client relationships for our Physical AI offerings—AI systems that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world across robotics, connected devices, and autonomous and embodied platforms—serving as the senior commercial owner who both sells our offerings and manages the full profit-and-loss for those accounts. You will be a valued member of the MLEU team and work collaboratively with delivery, engineering, and product teams.

• Own one or more strategic client accounts as the senior point of accountability for revenue, relationship, and outcomes, positioning Cognizant Intelligent Spine (CIS) Physical AI offerings to client executives and translating complex AI, robotics, and connected-systems capabilities into clear business value and ROI.
• Identify, shape, and close new opportunities within your accounts, expanding from initial engagements into broader, multi-year relationships built on deep, trusted-advisor relationships across the client’s technical and business leadership.
• Carry full P&L responsibility for your account portfolio—revenue, margin, and profitability—managing forecasting, pricing, and commercial structuring to ensure healthy, sustainable economics.
• Monitor account financials and take action to protect and grow margin while balancing growth investments against profitability targets.
• Partner with delivery, engineering, and product teams to ensure engagements are delivered on time, on budget, and to standard, governing account health, resolving escalations, and bringing market and client feedback back into the offering roadmap.
• Consistently demonstrate the Cognizant Way to Lead through strategic agility, client value creation, AI-led innovation, disciplined execution, collaborative ecosystem building and amplifying human potential through a culture of growth, inclusion and effective human-AI collaboration.

This is a Leadership role  believe how you lead is as important as what you deliver. Cognizant leaders at every level:

• Drive our business strategy and inspire teams around our future.
• Live the leadership behaviors, leading themselves, others and the business.
• Uphold our values, role modeling them in every action and decision.
• Nurture our people and culture, creating a workplace where all can thrive.

This includes leading with strategic ability, architecting client value, driving AI-led innovation, executing with discipline, building a collaborative ecosystem, and amplifying human potential.

At Cognizant, leadership transcends titles and is embodied in actions and behaviors. We empower our leaders at every level to drive business strategy, inspire teams, uphold our values, and foster an inclusive culture.

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in London. 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…