ASEAN External Relations Professional

When you join IBM, you join a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust. You join a team of IBMers who are helping technology support a positive global transformation. So join us and experience a place where you can co-create your learning and opportunities. A place where teamwork and unique ideas are treasured. A place where you can bring innovation to life.

Your role and responsibilities

IBM's Corporate Affairs' team accelerates IBM's growth by advancing and defending IBM's reputation, persuading external and internal audiences, and driving brand consideration. We do this by illustrating IBM's strategy, innovation and industry leadership with clients, investors, media, analysts, employees, policy influencers, and other key stakeholders.

As part of ASEAN team, you will help shape and protect IBM's reputation through compelling, consistent, and strategic external communications by bring the IBM narrative to life-demonstrating how our technology and expertise creates impact for clients, industries, and society.

You'll play a key role in driving awareness of IBM's strategic priorities, supporting business growth, and reinforcing our leadership in the tech industry.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

You will develop communications plans and strategies, collaborate on messaging architecture that helps the company's mission, and supports the business with messages and success stories that promote IBM's leadership. You will also help drive visibility for IBM key businesses across media and social platforms by managing effective relationships, collaborating across IBM to develop unified influencer plans to increase the understanding of IBM strategies and offerings in the market, and driving market leadership/differentiation overall.

• Conceptualize and execute external communication strategies to drive greater visibility and thought leadership for the IBM brand in ASEAN.
• Build and manage mindshare for the IBM brand and capabilities by leveraging relationships with key media and various external stakeholders in the region.
• Develop and craft compelling content and messaging for key IBM imperatives aligned to business strategies.
• Localise global narratives, conceptualise ASEAN wide campaigns, that support country specific national agenda to drive consistent storytelling.
• Partner with business leaders and marketing teams to tell success stories and bring IBM's differentiators to the forefront.
• Collaborate with analyst relations, social media and global team to identify opportunities for storytelling
• Stay ahead of the curve by bringing fresh thinking, innovation, and creativity to external engagement strategies.

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 qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Job ID: IBM-50847

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-14T18:50:56