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Associate Business Transformation Consultant 2026 - Adobe

IBM

IBM

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA
Posted on Jan 31, 2026
Introduction

In this role, you will join IBM Consulting via our world-class Associates Program for university hires. As a Business Transformation Consultant Adobe at IBM Consulting, you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients worldwide. Our clients' technical and business needs are constantly evolving. We're hiring inspired, talented individuals who believe no problem is too big to solve.

We focus on your professional development through ongoing learning, mentorship, development of technical skills, and continuous personal growth, all grounded in a culture of coaching and career advancement. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning and who wants to unleash your potential, the IBM Consulting Associates Program is for you.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in 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, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation for success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions that result in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of 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

The Business Transformation Consultant plays a key role in driving the successful delivery of across any part of the Adobe stack - Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) , Adobe Workfront or Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) for IBM’s client engagements. This role combines strategic analysis, project oversight, and stakeholder collaboration to translate business objectives into scalable digital solutions. The individual may support end-to-end planning and execution of projects—including new site builds, component enhancements, and cloud migrations—while also implementing and optimizing Adobe Workfront for workflow automation, project intake, and resource management. Partnering closely with both business and IT stakeholders, they ensure alignment, governance, and on-time delivery of high-quality, integrated experiences that support the client’s digital transformation goals.

At IBM, we prioritize continuous learning, skill development, and personal growth within a culture of coaching and mentorship.

In your role, you may be responsible for:

  • Market Dynamics: Immersing yourself in primary research and collaborating with dynamic teams assisting clients in navigating market trends and refining competitive strategies.
  • Operational Excellence:
    • Coordinating schedules, dependencies, and delivery risks across AEM and Workfront initiatives.
    • Monitoring progress using tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Workfront, providing regular status updates and executive summaries.
    • Measuring performance against KPIs for delivery quality, velocity, and stakeholder satisfaction.
    • Identifying opportunities to improve AEM content workflows, Workfront usage, and team collaboration efficiency.
    • Researching best practices in agile delivery, change management, and digital content operations across IBM and client teams
  • Stakeholder Engagement:
    • Support coordination among IBM, client business teams, and IT stakeholders to ensure alignment on AEM, AEP and Workfront initiatives
    • Assist with discovery sessions and workshops to gather and document business requirements, workflows, and content management needs
    • Translate business goals into functional and technical requirements, ensuring clarity for development, QA, and design teams
    • Support workshops, meetings, and interviews to understand and document requirements collaborating with diverse teams to capture and synthesize essential information
  • Project Engagement: Work with transformation teams, enterprise-wide data integrations, and other initiatives. Contribute to your team's work by translating technical concepts into client-relevant terms and drive adoption of the KPI impact with key client stakeholders.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Currently pursuing a university degree in business, computer science, information systems, marketing, communications, or related field, with a track-record of academic success
  • Strong interpersonal skills that enhance collaboration and relationship building, while also managing dynamic workloads in an agile environment
  • Have initiative and passion to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills while embracing a growth mindset to assimilate diverse viewpoints
  • Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to communicate effectively through active listening, while also be willing to adapt and have a readiness to take ownership of tasks and challenges
  • Interest in one or more of the following types of consulting: strategy, business transformation, or experience
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance, if needed
  • Ability to work in-office, on-site.
  • Willingness to travel 100%
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM): Basic understanding of AEM Sites, Components, Templates, and authoring workflows. Interest in learning how AEM supports large-scale digital experiences and integrates with other Adobe Experience Cloud products
  • Adobe Experience Platform: Hands‑on exposure to Adobe Experience Platform or related Adobe products (Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Campaign, Journey Optimizer, CDP)
  • Adobe Workfront: Exposure to project management tools or interest in learning Workfront for task tracking, workflow automation, and project reporting
  • Project Management & Collaboration Tools: Familiarity with Agile or Scrum concepts and experience (academic or project-based) using tools like Jira, Confluence, Monday.com, or Trello for task management and team collaboration

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 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.

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.


This position is eligible for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan. Actual incentive opportunity will be based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive, as addressed in the applicable plan, all of which is subject to change. The compensation range listed for this position is the IBM Reference Salary that is used when you are not actively participating in a sales plan. Your actual base pay plus incentive opportunity will be determined by the Incentive Plan assigned to you.