Procurement Analyst

IBM
IBM

IT, Operations

Herndon, VA, USA

Posted on Sep 26, 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 Analyst, you will leverage your strong understanding and working experience with the SDLC to drive business outcomes. You will excel in requirement gathering, analysis, and documentation, utilizing your exceptional communication and analytical skills to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Support the full-lifecycle Government acquisition process.
  • Elicit requirements using market research, interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis. Translate information into procurement-ready packages.
  • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
  • Responsible for the analysis, evaluation, approving or redirecting of the strategy, plans, and techniques of pre-award and post-award functions involving highly specialized procurements for several information systems programs/projects.
  • Provide Pre-Award Contract Business Support to the PD ALTESS mission by working with Contracting Officers to provide complete, compliant, and accurate documentation that is required for contract acquisition packages.
  • Review purchase requests and requirements packages for accuracy and completeness, ensures appropriate funding and required waivers, certifications, approvals, and compliances have been obtained, and resolves problems with requesting activities.
  • Prepare and coordinates acquisition plans.
  • Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document)).
  • Experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
  • Successfully engage in multiple acquisition initiatives simultaneously.
  • Work independently with users to define concepts and under of the Government Team Lead.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
None
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Experience in supporting the Government contracts process or similar experience in local government or public sector.
  • Proven experience in researching, developing and compiling documentation to meet a specified requirement.
  • Excellent analytic and organization skills with a keen attention to detail, sound judgement, solid technical skills, communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with customers and IT management and staff.
  • Must be self-directed, customer-focused, process-oriented, logical and tenacious. You must be able to develop new ideas for ways to streamline efforts while maintaining quality; must be willing to apply extra effort when it is necessary; must accept responsibility for your own work; and willing to assist others as the situation demands.
  • Experience in the full-lifecycle requirements development process preferred but not required. Candidate will perform requirements discovery and formalization in coordination with multiple Government teams.
  • May require hybrid/onsite in Raeford, VA as needed.
  • Secret Clearance is required.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Strong Analytical Skills: Exposure to analyzing complex business cases and developing process maps to guide technical teams. Ability to break down intricate problems into manageable parts and identify creative solutions. Effective analytical skills enable successful business outcomes.

• Excellent Communication: Experience working with stakeholders to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively. Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders and facilitate seamless collaboration between lines of business and development teams.

• Business Case Analysis: Exposure to analyzing business cases and providing guidance to technical teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements. Ability to identify business needs and develop solutions that drive business outcomes.

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

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 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), cash balance pension plan, 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.

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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