Introduction

At IBM, we know that transformation drives change, and it is in our DNA to continuously transform. Our Business Transformation Consultants help drive large scale change that spans IBM business units and geographies. As a part of this team, you will have the unique opportunity to be a part of driving IBM's ongoing transformation as a company that continuously innovates and leads the market.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Job role description: Associate Strategy Consultant Play a leading role in advising clients on business transformation through an analytical approach that combines human-centered design and an understanding of emerging technologies and platforms.
As an Associate Strategy Consultant on the IBM Digital Strategy team, you'll be a key supporter for IBM's engagement with senior business leaders, bringing together IBM's unique capabilities across strategy, innovation, design, data analytics, cognitive computing, and technology platforms to develop and deliver high-impact transformation programs.
You'll manage complex engagements, working closely with clients and their customers to understand their pain points. Your strategic recommendations will drive change in a digitally-enabled era and give you the opportunity to collaborate with highly talented IBMers.Work you could do as an Associate Strategy Consultant:

• Research the client organization and industry value chains via modern and digitally-enabled approaches to structured and unstructured data analysis and insight generation that go beyond traditional methods of interviewing, focus groups, or market studies
• Draw from primary and existing IBM research on evolving market trends to help clients explore the art of the possible based on market and competitive positioning (e.g., rise of the FinTechs, digital marketplaces, Internet of Things enabled analytics, API economy)
• Identify and analyze opportunities and obstacles clients face in global and increasingly competitive markets, develop new business models to bring to life ideas, increase efficiency and profitability for existing offerings, or determine optimal routes to market for new or existing products and services
• Identify issues, create hypotheses, and execute analysis, developing decision-ready recommendations to inform the strategic agenda for our clients

Qualification:

• Track record of academic success
• Highly motivated, with clear evidence of drive and significant achievements
• Ability to apply logic to solve ambiguous problems and deliver creative and well-structured solutions
• Exceptional quantitative analysis skills and ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights
• Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently, meet deadlines, and share/incorporate feedback
• Powerful communication and storytelling skills, with an ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work effectively in an intense team environment, able to build direct working relationships across all levels of the IBM and client teams
• A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• High attention to details and always ready to push the limits.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to get the job done.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor's degree in a marketing, management information system, computer science or related role.
• Associates hire prefer new graduates, or no more than 2 years working experience.

About Business UnitIBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.
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