Delivery Manager / Project Manager

IBM

IBM

Operations

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on May 14, 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.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Project Manager, you will lead cross-functional project teams in delivering custom development solutions or managing the Maintenance and Support of applications. You will be accountable for ensuring that the project is completed within the specified scope, cost, and timeline, while meeting the business requirements and contractual obligations. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Lead Cross-Functional Teams: Manage project plans, budgets, schedules, and staffing requirements including IBM, client employees, and 3rd-party vendors to ensure effective resource allocation and project plan execution.

• Establish Communication Plans: Develop an effective communication plan to deliver regular project status updates to stakeholders and ensure successful project outcomes.

• Manage Project Scope: Ensure that the project is completed within the specified scope, cost, and timeline, while meeting the business requirements and contractual obligations.

• Drive Project Outcomes: Possess experience with project management methodologies and tools to drive successful project outcomes.

• Deliver Status Updates: Deliver regular project status updates to stakeholders to ensure transparency and visibility into project progress.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Experience: 10+ Years Drive delivery excellence for a high impact, $30-40M annual program. In this role, you will serve as the program''s strategic leader-guiding scope, budget, technology delivery, and executive alignment to ensure business outcomes are achieved. You''ll partner closely across business and IT teams, influence senior leaders and bring structure and clarity to complex, multi workstream initiatives. The expectation is that you will own the full lifecycle and ensure alignment with other large programs in flight to identify cross program dependencies.

Responsibilities - Define program direction and scope in partnership with business product managers, ensuring clarity of objectives and alignment to portfolio.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Project Management Tools: Experience with project management methodologies and tools to establish effective communication plans, manage project scope, and drive successful project outcomes.

• Agile Development Methodologies: Exposure to agile development methodologies to deliver custom development solutions or manage the Maintenance and Support of applications.

• IT Service Management: Experience with IT service management principles to ensure effective resource allocation and project plan execution.

• Advanced 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.

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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.

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