A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

Your role and responsibilities

Project Delivery

Analyse and document requirements by liaising with a range of people including users and managers, drawing together information needs across a distributed organisation
Establish and prepare project plans, risk management plans, project milestones and deliverables in consultation with business users and architect/designer
Manage the implementation of the project on a daily basis with regard to schedules, budget, manpower, quality and project financial
Manage the scope definition and change control mechanism
Escalate and discuss project overrun issues, scope creep, integration issues, resource requirements with Project Director (PD)
Manage integration of various components of the project including hardware, software installation, testing, business process review, redesign, application development, migration and data conversion etc.
Manage project activities to ensure timely delivery, including identification of critical path, monitoring and driving completion of interdependent activities and adjustment to project schedules to achieve overall completion deadline
Manage resources including hardware, software, human resource facilities and logistics required for project so as to ensure completion within budget
Review project documentation to ensure that it meets customers requirement and conforms to quality management process, standards and procedures to minimise rework and system failures
Define project resources, performance reviews and post implementation evaluations
Customer/ Vendor Management
Negotiate with vendors and across teams to ensure adequate resources are available during various phases of the project
Build relationships with users, technical staff and management to determine and resolve issues associated with systems implementation
Manage contracts and subcontractors
Negotiate with customers on change request effort, schedules and prioritize changes based on business needs
Clear and open communication with customers on project issues or clarifications
Business Development
Proactively identify opportunities for further expansion or improvement of services delivered to the customer and liaise with the Account Manager(s) for development of that opportunity
Be involved in pre-sale activities

Team Management

Liaise with team members to ensure that all tasks and deliverables are proceeding according to schedule
Plan, track and monitor the tasks assigned to the team leader/ members
Delegate tasks effectively by providing clear and specific instructions and goals
Provide leadership to the project team to ensure that proposals/enhancements are fully analysed and evaluated for their benefits and costs
Provide the project team with accurate information about business needs and priorities as well as details about existing business systems
Participate in leadership activities and providing performance feedback and developmental coaching
Monitor and improve team performance, providing leadership, coaching, and performance management

Required education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Required technical and professional expertise

Typically at least 10+ years SAP project management experience with a minimum of 3 complete project management cycles in the development, implementation, and support of information technology projects across various organizations.
SAP functional and technical knowledge
Self-motivated with a positive “can-do” attitude, creative with excellent presentation, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills including strong persuasive techniques.
Able to lead, develop and maintain respectful and trusting relationship
Proficient in written and spoken English

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

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