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Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

This role is on the strategy team supporting the Sustainability Software portfolio of solutions within IBM Software, which includes Envizi, Maximo, TRIRIGA, Environmental Intelligence, and IBM Sterling Order Management. These solutions help our clients create more efficient businesses and operationalize their sustainability goals.

As a strategy analyst, you will drive critical transformation of the business by developing and applying knowledge of industry-specific and cross-industry competitive strategies. You will analyze problems, formulate hypotheses, develop insights, and deliver recommendations to drive growth and transformation, working with product leaders to investigate new market opportunities and business models. You will bring outside-in perspectives that may challenge beliefs through data-driven analysis, working closely with internal clients across different IBM businesses to co-create strategies for change. Your strategic recommendations will drive change in a digitally enabled era and give you the opportunity to collaborate with highly talented IBMers.

Your role and responsibilities:

• Shape the decisions of senior leadership through project engagements

• Engage with product leaders to determine root causes to be evaluated, hypotheses to be tested, and business outcomes to be achieved

• Establish trusted relationships with internal client teams. Work with stakeholders across IBM to gather information, gain diverse perspectives, and deepen subject matter expertise

• Develop fact-based client, market, and competitor insights based on research, e.g., through primary interviews, analyst reports, and internal databases

• Develops product vision and direction of future offering enhancements that address competitive gaps and meet market requirements

• Define requirements, business cases with investment plan, pricing/revenue/ forecast estimates, working with Consulting, Sales, Business Partners, Customers, Design, Development and other stake holders to build product roadmap, go-to-market strategy and enablement for the product offerings

• Produce and leverage insights as well as apply technical and operational expertise to identify issues, challenge the status quo, and co-create creative recommendations

• Translate ambiguity and complexity into structured approaches to solve problems and identify opportunities amid rapid technological and market disruptions

• Synthesize insights and recommendations into client presentations and facilitate dialog to clearly communicate findings to Business Unit leaders and senior executives

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Intellectual curiosity and readiness to question existing strategies, business models, and methodologies to devise innovative solutions

• Diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives

• Eagerness to cultivate positive working relationships within a tight-knit team and build trusted relationships across all levels of IBM

• Passion to understand how emerging technologies can be adopted and applied to solve business and societal challenges

• Strong problem-solving capabilities, including the capability to take ambiguous complexities and deliver creative, well-structured solutions

• Deep analytical skills and ability to formulate data-driven recommendations

• Powerful communication and storytelling skills, successfully using verbal and written communication to expose and defend points of view to business leaders and team members

• High degree of autonomy and the ability to thrive in ambiguous environments

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3-5 years of consulting experience in firm or internal strategy org

• 3-5 year of competitive analysis

• 3-5 years in a Strategy or Product Management role

• 3-5 year in working in software or other technology-focused role

About Business UnitIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

Your Life @ IBMIn 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 IBMIBM'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.

Location StatementIBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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.