Strategy Consultant

Introduction

As a Strategy Consultant at IBM, you will help reinvent businesses and industries by developing and utilizing specialized knowledge of industry-specific and cross-industry competitive strategies. You will develop strategic recommendations that will drive change in a digitally-enabled era and give you the opportunity to collaborate with highly talented IBMers. Are you ready?

Your role and responsibilities

You will analyze complex business issues facing the IBM Infrastructure Business Unit. This business comprises of leading-edge offerings such as Cloud, Z (Mainframe), Power, Storage and Technical support services. This business is the foundation for IBM's push to be a leader in AI and Hybrid Cloud. You will need to understand the broad trends in Hybrid Cloud and AI and apply appropriate methodologies to develop strategies and tactics to enhance the performance of IBM Infrastructure business. You will be a member of the Global Infrastructure Strategy team that sets priorities for the business and communicates it externally to clients, market analysts, VCs, etc.

Tasks and Responsibilities include:

• Support IBM Infrastructure leaders in developing strategic insights
• Conduct analysis with IBM strategy team stakeholders to identify root causes, test hypotheses, and define targeted business outcomes
• Collect and synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights through research, interviews, analyst reports, and internal databases
• Prepare clear, compelling client presentations that communicate findings, recommendations, and strategic options effectively with supporting data and analyses
• Develop prioritized implementation plans and work with business stakeholders to drive outcomes on leadership aligned initiatives

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• MBA from a Tier-1 business school
• 2-3 years of post-MBA experience
• Able to travel approximately 10% annually
• Fluent in English

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Bachelor's degree in STEM
• Exposure to technology or strategy consulting industry
• Fluency in creating quantitative models in Excel and presentations in Powerpoint

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company's Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM's global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients' growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

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.

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Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: IBM-52352

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-15T18:53:45