Consultant - Simpler Business System

Through partnership with our parent company, IBM, and their strategic partnerships we offer a combination of capabilities and services unique in the industry for integrating people, processes, technology, and data to reduce waste, increase effectiveness, and maximize customer-defined value for clients.

Curiosity and a quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in Simpler Consulting, an IBM Company. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas, and develop creative solutions for your clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

As a consultant, you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who partners with clients to drive meaningful transformations across all aspects of their organization by aligning strategies, optimizing resources, streamlining operations, and instilling a culture of continuous improvement.

A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.

Simpler's Consultants support the planning, preparation, and implementation of improvement to enable better decision making. They have practical process improvement and data analytic experience and are essential for reinventing your business for the future.

The Consultants are an integral part of the client delivery team. They deliver billable work (on site and remote) for the engagement and their support is typically the following:

• Identify, collect, analyze, and present data to drive actionable insights
• Complete detailed analytics to support the preparation, facilitation, and sustainment of value stream improvement
• Coach client team members on data collection and analysis to ensure successful root cause problem solving
• Provide data analytic support and coaching in the collection and analysis of performance data and the tracking of key metrics and financial benefits
• Support ongoing learning of the client's team to ensure successful transformation and outcomes
• Use your excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills on a daily basis

Note: there are multiple locations for this role, but need to be located near major airport to support high % of travel to client sites required.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Knowledge and application of continuous improvement methodology such as of Toyota Production System, TPS, Lean, DMAIC principles, tools, and techniques
• Excel including intermediate to advanced Excel skills including formatting as table, creating pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, using embedded functions, selection of and creating the right chart type for the data, logical and organized structuring of files.
• Coaching, leading teams either in business, academic or personal level
• Executive presentation skills - using tools such as PowerPoint
• Engineering degree

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Background in manufacturing
• Knowledge of Agile practices or Lean certification
• Process Mining Experience

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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.

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ABOUT IBM

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

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), 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.