Enterprise Strategy Consultant Intern (January 2027 - 4 Months Term - Toronto, Ottawa)

IBM; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 36,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting offers an Intern Strategy Consultant position. You’ll work with clients to understand pain points and combine strategy, design, data analytics, cognitive computing, and technology to craft high‑impact transformation programs.

You’ll collaborate with clients and IBM teams, contributing to client‑ready materials and presentations. This 4‑month term is based in Toronto/Ottawa, starting January 2027.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates quantitative analysis skills with data-driven recommendations.
• Clear and concise communication of complex ideas.

Responsibilities

• Research the client organization and industry value chains.
• Identify issues, develop hypotheses, and perform analyses to inform recommendations.
• Prepare client-ready materials and presentations (PowerPoint, Word).
• Collaborate with clients and IBM teams to deliver high-impact transformation programs.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Communication

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Growth mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As an Intern Strategy Consultant at IBM, you'll be working closely with clients and their customers to understand their pain points, bringing together IBM's unique capabilities across strategy, innovation, design, data analytics, cognitive computing, and technology platforms to develop and deliver high-impact transformation programs. Leveraging a growth mindset, you're ready and willing to deliver business value, wherever needed. In your role, you may be responsible for:

• Researching the client organization and industry value chains.
• Drawing from primary and existing IBM research on evolving market trends.
• Identifying issues, creating hypotheses, and executing analysis, to develop decision-ready recommendations for our clients.
• Contribute to client-ready material for projects and sales efforts, including PowerPoint presentations, Word Documents, and other mediums.

This position resides in Toronto/Ottawa and is a 4-month work term commencing in January 2027. All applicants must be eligible to work full-time in Canada and enrolled full-time in an eligible post-secondary program. It is mandatory that applicants return to full-time studies upon completion of the work term. Candidates pursuing Bachelor's or Master's degrees are eligible. MBA and PhD candidates are not eligible for this opportunity.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Demonstrate quantitative analysis skills and ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights.
• Ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply by listening actively and conveying difficult messages in a positive manner.
• Ability to apply logic to solve ambiguous problems and deliver creative and well-structured solutions.
• A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work effectively with individuals, strengthening relationships to achieve win‑win solutions.
• Strong problem‑solving capabilities, including the desire to take ambiguous problems and deliver creative and well‑structured solutions; as well as applying deep analytical skills to ensure recommendations are informed by data and insights.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Passion to understand the applications of emerging technologies and adapt modern approaches and innovative solutions to client problems.
• Highly resilient with the ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently, meet deadlines, and share/incorporate feedback.
• Previous internship/experience with a recognized consulting firm.
• Previous corporate internship/experience outside of consulting.
• Involvement in university consulting clubs and/or case competitions.