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Introduction
IBM Corporate Strategy team is a small, specialized group that is part of the Strategy, Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and Ventures team. As IBM’s internal strategy consulting team, we provide strategic perspectives to directly impact the overall corporate direction of IBM. We are integral partners to senior executives across IBM and to our strategy counterparts who sit within specific Business Units.
Introduction
IBM Corporate Strategy team is a small, specialized group that is part of the Strategy, Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and Ventures team. As IBM’s internal strategy consulting team, we provide strategic perspectives to directly impact the overall corporate direction of IBM. We are integral partners to senior executives across IBM and to our strategy counterparts who sit within specific Business Units.
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
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
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.
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
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