As a Corporate Strategy Consultant, you will drive critical transformation of IBM by developing and applying knowledge of industry-specific and cross-industry competitive strategies. You will analyze problems, formulate hypotheses, develop insights, and deliver recommendations to drive growth and transformation, working with IBM Business Units to investigate new market opportunities and business models. You will bring outside-in perspectives that may challenge beliefs through data-driven analysis, working closely with internal clients across different IBM businesses to co-create strategies for change. Your strategic recommendations will drive change in a digitally-enabled era and give you the opportunity to collaborate with highly talented IBMers.
The work and team culture provide you with the opportunity to work alongside and be mentored by senior strategy consultants and executives in a collaborative team environment. Every individual on the team with a quest for knowledge has a voice to add to IBM's story. Your career journey will evolve from being responsible for a specific module of a project to developing specialized knowledge and owning larger, more complex workstreams. All projects vary in size and length. As a member of IBM Corporate Strategy, you will gain exposure to IBM at a transformational moment in its illustrious 115-year history. Join us to help shape IBM as it defines the Hybrid Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum markets
Your role and responsibilities
Your Role and Responsibilities:
• Shape IBM C-Suite's decisions and strategic direction through project engagements
• Engage with Business Unit leaders to determine root causes to be evaluated, hypotheses to be tested, and business outcomes to be achieved
• Establish trusted relationships with internal client teams. Work with stakeholders across IBM to gather information, gain diverse perspectives, and deepen subject matter expertise
• Develop fact-based client, market, and competitor insights based on research, e.g., through primary interviews, analyst reports, and internal databases
• Produce and leverage insights as well as apply technical and operational expertise to identify issues, challenge the status quo, and co-create creative recommendations
• Translate ambiguity and complexity into structured approaches to solve problems and identify opportunities amid rapid technological and market disruptions
• Synthesize insights and recommendations into client presentations and facilitate dialog to clearly communicate findings to Business Unit leaders and senior executives
• Collaborate with client teams to implement and, in select circumstances, to manage pragmatic, bold, and actionable solutions
What We Look For:
• Intellectual curiosity and readiness to question existing strategies, business models, and methodologies to devise innovative solutions
• Diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives
• Eagerness to cultivate positive working relationships within a tight-knit team and build trusted relationships across all levels of IBM
• Passion to understand how emerging technologies can be adopted and applied to solve business and societal challenges
• Strong problem-solving capabilities, including the capability to take ambiguous complexities and deliver creative, well-structured solutions
• Deep analytical skills and ability to formulate data-driven recommendations
• Powerful communication and storytelling skills, successfully using verbal and written communication to expose and defend points of view to business leaders and team members
• High degree of autonomy and the ability to thrive in ambiguous environment
Required education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• Master's degree in Business Administration/Management, with proven business experience.
• Able to travel approximately 10% annually.
• Fluent in the English language.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM's financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
