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IBM

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California, USA · Tokyo, Japan · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Jun 6, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Business Transformation Consultant, you will serve as a business analyst supporting transformation engagements shaped or orchestrated with the support of Enterprise Strategy. You will play a key role in researching industry best practices and key change drivers impacting enterprises within that industry.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Conduct Industry Research: Research industry best practices and key change drivers impacting enterprises within that industry, staying up-to-date on the latest trends and insights that inform business transformation strategies.

• Gather and Analyze Data: Assist with the gathering and synthesis of key operational and performance data pertaining to the client's enterprise, providing valuable insights that inform strategic recommendations.

• Document Processes: Document as-is processes and operating models, helping to identify areas for improvement and opportunities for growth.

• Inform Strategic Engagements: Help with recommendation formulation and visualization in support of strategic engagements that guide business transformation, leveraging your analytical skills to drive meaningful change.

• Perform Business Analysis: Perform business, process, technology, product, pricing, policy, and/or governance research and analysis, including value assessment and orchestration, to drive informed decision-making.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
None
Required technical and professional expertise

• Industry Research Experience: Experience with researching industry best practices and key change drivers impacting enterprises within specific industries, with the ability to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and insights that inform business transformation strategies.

• Data Analysis Expertise: Experience in gathering and synthesizing key operational and performance data pertaining to an enterprise, providing valuable insights that inform strategic recommendations.

• Process Documentation Skills: Experience documenting as-is processes and operating models, identifying areas for improvement and opportunities for growth.

• Business Analysis Capabilities: Experience performing business, process, technology, product, pricing, policy, and/or governance research and analysis, including value assessment and orchestration.

• Strategic Engagement Support: Experience supporting strategic engagements that guide business transformation, leveraging analytical skills to drive meaningful change.

**Federal Clearance Is Required at the Secret level.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Industry Research Knowledge: Experience with researching industry best practices and key change drivers impacting enterprises within specific industries, including staying up-to-date on the latest trends and insights that inform business transformation strategies. • Data Visualization Skills: Exposure to data visualization tools and techniques to effectively communicate insights and recommendations to stakeholders. • Business Analysis Tools: Experience with business analysis tools and methodologies to perform business, process, technology, product, pricing, policy, and/or governance research and analysis.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

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 500 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 qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive benefits program which may include medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, mental health & well being, 8 paid holidays, minimum 56 hours paid sick time, 80 hours paid vacation, life insurance, 401(k), financial counseling, and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 15 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

US Citizenship Required.

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.

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