Corporate Strategy Consultant

As a Corporate Strategy Consultant, you will drive critical transformation of IBM 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 IBM Business Units to investigate new market opportunities and business models. You will bring outside-in perspectives to 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.

The work and team culture provide you with the opportunity to work alongside and be mentored by senior strategy consultants and executives in a collaborative team environment. Every individual on the team with a quest for knowledge has a voice to add to IBM's story. Your career journey will evolve from being responsible for a specific module of a project to developing specialized knowledge and owning larger, more complex workstreams. All projects vary in size and length. As a member of IBM Corporate Strategy, you will gain exposure to IBM at a transformational moment in its illustrious history, and help shape IBM's new chapter as it defines the Hybrid Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum computing markets.

Your Role and Responsibilities :

• Shape IBM C-Suite's decisions and strategic direction through project engagements

• Engage with Business Unit 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

• 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

• Collaborate with client teams to implement and, in select circumstances, to manage pragmatic, bold, and actionable solutions

What We Look For:

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

• Diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspective

• 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

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

• Pursuing Master of Business Administration.
• Bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of business experience.
• Able to travel approximately 10% annually.
• Fluent in the English language.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Pursuing Master's Degree in Business/Management with 2 years of experience in business strategy and problem-solving

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) team represents a variety of functions such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, all working together to solve some of the world's most complex problems, help our clients achieve success and build collaborative work environments for IBMers.

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

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.

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.

Client-provided location(s): New York, NY

Job ID: IBM-57308

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-06T18:51:09