Cognizant plans to hire sales staff with specialised digital skill sets

The company, which is in the process of hiring around 500-strong sales team, has already taken staffers with specialist knowledge of working with SaaS players

Cognizant is aggressively hiring sales people proficient in digital technologies in its bid to win more deals in the new technology space.

The company, which is in the process of hiring around 500-strong sales team, has already taken staffers with specialist knowledge of working with SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) players. “Out of the 500 sales people (the company is hiring), a large proportion has digital skill set. So, we have sales specialist, who work with leading SaaS players like Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure,” said Malcolm Frank, president of Cognizant Digital Business. “We also have sales specialists with specific knowledge in IoT