FlashSystem Product Manager - Business Forecasting and Analytics

Introduction

We're hiring a Product Manager focused on Storage Business Forecasting and Analysis to be a finance and supply chain liaison. This is a pivotal role that sits at the intersection of product, operations, and business strategy. You'll be responsible for building the product management input for pricing, volume planning, and business case frameworks that support our FlashSystem storage products and related sales bundles.This is a unique opportunity to lay the groundwork for how we plan, price, and operationalize our storage offerings. You'll work closely with supply chain, finance, engineering, and executive stakeholders to drive decisions that balance market competitiveness, customer needs, cost structures, and long-term profitability.If you're a highly analytical, detail-oriented thinker who thrives in a cross-functional environment and loves turning data into decisions - this role is for you.

Your role and responsibilities

• Define Pricing Strategy: Develop and own the pricing models for storage products, balancing competitiveness, cost, and margin goals.
• Lead Volume Forecasting & Supply Chain Planning: Partner with supply chain and operations teams to drive data-informed volume projections and inventory planning.
• Build Business Cases: Create and maintain business case models for new product launches, bundles, or strategic changes - evaluating ROI, margin impact, and go-to-market fit.
• Last-Time Buy (LTB) Planning: Design and execute the methodology for last-time buys of EOL (end-of-life) components, ensuring financial and operational alignment.
• Evaluate and Launch Product Promotions: Partner with product and sales teams to propose and assess bundled and promotion offerings, including pricing structures and profitability analysis.
• Assess Market Competitiveness: Perform competitive analyses to ensure that our clients are delighted with our storage products.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work across teams including finance, supply chain, engineering, and executive leadership to align strategy and execution.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong analytical skills and high proficiency in Excel/Sheets and financial modeling.
• Comfort with ambiguity and building processes from the ground up.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience with using AI based tools
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.

Why Join Us:

• Be in a high-impact, cross-functional product area.
• Help shape foundational strategy and processes.
• Work with an experienced team that values data, collaboration, and thoughtful execution.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and potential for growth as we scale.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Nice to Have:

• Experience in product management, business strategy, supply chain operations, or finance - ideally in a hardware, storage, or component-centric business.
• Proven ability to build and manage pricing models, business cases, or volume forecasts.
• Experience managing EOL and last-time buy processes.
• MBA or advanced degree a plus.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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

All our positions are eligible for people with disabilities PwD or rehabilitated.

Client-provided location(s): Guadalajara, Mexico

Job ID: IBM-64464

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-11T18:47:50