Introduction
As a Business Consultant at IBM, get ready to tackle numerous mission-critical company directives. Our team takes on the challenge of designing, developing and re-engineering highly complex application components and integrating software packages using various tools. You will use a mix of consultative skills, business knowledge, and technical expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into our clients' business environment and achieve business results.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As part of the next generation of Business Consultants, you will work with our clients to solve specific business problems. With excellent people skills, you will bridge the gap between users and technology. This will involve working through all or any part of the project lifecycle; understanding the client's requirements and analysing their business and industry; advising them on best practice or recommended strategy; or designing and delivering solutions.
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Projects can last anywhere from a few weeks to over a year, and can be based at a client site, an IBM location or a combination of both. During the program, you'll move between different assignments, working with a variety of blue-chip clients. You may be designing and building innovative customer experiences, using leading edge methods to help plan, solution and execute client work, or analyzing business requirements and configuring functional software in the next generation of applications; making a difference to our clients and to the world. Business consulting is varied: the path you take and the velocity of your progression will be largely in your hands!
Project roles may include:
- Business Analyst
- Project Manager Assistant
- Change Management Consultant
- Business Process and Functional Consultant
- Business Transformation Consultant (Finance, Procurement, HR, Customer)
- Digital Strategy Consultant
- Strategy Consultant
- Data Analyst / Data Scientist
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Graduate in any discipline with less than 2 years of full-time working experience.
- Adaptability - How do you cope with changing demands and stress? Are you flexible? Have you successfully completed several projects with competing deadlines?
- Communication - Do you present information clearly, precisely and succinctly? Adapt the way you communicate to your audience? And listen to others?
- Client Focus - Can you see a situation from a client's viewpoint, whether that's colleagues or customers? Can you anticipate their needs?
- Creative Problem Solving - Do you use ingenuity, supported by logical methods and analysis, to propose solutions? Can you anticipate problems? Do you put forward innovative ideas?
- Drive - Will you proactively learn new skills - even if they're beyond the scope of your current job? Will you put in the time and energy needed to achieve results?
- Teamwork - How do you work with others to achieve shared goals? Do you easily build relationships with others? Are you a team player?
- Passion for IBM - Do you know what IBM does and what our most recent achievements are? Are you up to speed with the latest trends in our industry? What are the biggest challenges we face? (You'll need the facts at your fingertips and the enthusiasm to match.)
- Taking Ownership - Do you take responsibility for tasks/decisions? And implement decisions with speed? Can you show when you've worked to correct your mistakes?
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Applicants are required to complete the online application and upload all the required documents in ONE PDF file to our website on or before the application. The following are the required documents:
- Covering Letter (please specify which associate position to apply);
- Resume with full details, including valid e-mail address and mobile number;
- Academic transcripts copies (e.g. Bachelor and/or Master Degree transcripts indicating the CGPA score);
- HKDSE certificate copies (for local students in HK only);
- Reference letter & other supporting documents (if applicable).