Introduction
At IBM, we know that transformation drives change, and it is in our DNA to continuously transform. Our Business Transformation Consultants help drive large scale change that spans IBM business units and geographies. As a part of this team, you will have the unique opportunity to be a part of driving IBM’s ongoing transformation as a company that continuously innovates and leads the market.

Your Role and Responsibilities
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT OR ASSOCIATE DESIGNER

We’re looking for passionate, original thinkers who want to drive progress, grow their network, and further their careers. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning, who believes no problem is too big to solve, and who wants to unleash their potential, the entry level Associates Program is for you.

You:

• Graduated (or will be graduating) between 2023 and September 2025
• Have an Associate’s Degree, College Diploma, Bachelor’s Degree, or Master’s Degree (Exception: The Associates Program does not accept MBA or Ph D candidates/graduates)
• Have maximum 2 years of full-time, professional work experience
• Are within commuting distance of Toronto/Calgary/Ottawa/Montreal, with flexibility to travel 80-100% of the time
• Are eligible to work in Canada without current or future need for visa sponsorship

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

At the very top of your resume, indicate which of the (1) cities you are willing to remain in and/or relocate to and (2) which of the career tracks you are interested in (choose only one).

Location

• Toronto
• Ottawa

For Ottawa only: Candidates should have lived in Canada for 5-10 years to qualify for security clearance.

Career Tracks

• Consultant
• Designer

• Kindly note that our incoming Associates are responsible for all costs associated with relocation

Application Deadline: September 20th, 2024

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT

As an Associate Consultant, you’ll be right at the intersection of technology, people, and process.
You’ll play a leading role in advising clients on business transformation through an analytical approach that combined human-centered design and an understanding of emerging technologies and platforms. You’ll be our clients’ guide to developing an understanding of their existing processes, goals, and objectives to define their future state – then help them get there.

• Identify and analyze opportunities and obstacles clients face in global and increasingly competitive markets
• Use IBM Enterprise Design Thinking to help solve client challenges
• Apply best practices as an Agile Practitioner on client projects
• Enable your project team by running/supporting workshops, meetings, and stakeholder interviews, and developing communications tailored to specific audiences
• Define current and future operational scenarios through process maps, models, use cases, and plans
• Translate client requirements into analytical specifications for the implementation of disruptive technology solutions
• Develop new business models to bring ideas to life, increase efficiency and profitability for existing offerings, or determine optimal routes to market for new or existing products and services
• Identify issues, create hypotheses, and execute analyses, developing decision-ready recommendations to inform the strategic agenda for clients

ASSOCIATE DESIGNER

As an Associate Designer, you’ll focus on enterprise-sized challenges to address user needs, improve digital innovation, and design world-class experiences.
You’ll facilitate the delivery of elements, interactions, and decisions that add value to the total user experience. By communicating intent and meaning through emotionally compelling and desirable visual experiences, you’ll translate functions and information to incite understanding and action.

• Leverage IBM Enterprise Design Thinking to generate user and stakeholder insights to shape and define the total user experience across touch points, time, and channels
• Work closely with clients, senior designers, and front-end developers to implement dynamic human-centered solutions
• Converge and translate technological, operational, and functional constraints into human-centered opportunities
• Design interaction patterns between functions/information and users/customers, and design pathways of navigation through an experience
• Engage in visual design work, creating delightful concepts, mock-ups, and prototypes from sketches and wireframes
• Create imagery and visual representations (including storyboards, layouts, graphics, and data visualizations) at various levels of fidelity in preparation for client meetings or product development
• Communicate through the nuanced use of color, tone, layout, composition, imagery, typography, interactions, and motion

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
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Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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About Business Unit IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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Location Statement Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

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