Entry level Portfolio Management - Data Science - RTP - 2027

IBM; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking an Offering Manager for its Cloud Portfolio to own the strategy, data infrastructure, and cross-functional relationships required to bring cloud-native solutions to market. You will analyze markets, define the business model, and drive execution at scale.

You will lead data-driven decision making, build cross-platform models, and shape a roadmap aligned to technical architecture and commercial priorities, with growth potential within IBM's cloud portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration and strategy development.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities and drive portfolio value across IBM Cloud.
• Support senior PMs in day-to-day and strategic management of cloud products.
• Define and execute product strategy using quantitative market, competitive, and financial analysis.
• Build analytical models and automated reporting across platforms.
• Develop a product roadmap aligned to technical architecture and commercial priorities.
• Support Sales/Marketing with data-driven insights to accelerate revenue growth.
• Track product performance and communicate metrics to stakeholders.
• Keep updated on emerging technologies in cloud, data science, pricing models, and automation.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Ready to re-imagine what it means to sit at the intersection of technology, data, and business strategy? At IBM, Offering Managers are responsible for the full lifecycle of a product — from validating market need and defining solution requirements to determining the business model and driving execution at scale. In this role, you will go far beyond traditional product management boundaries, applying deep technical expertise in data science, cloud analytics, and automation to solve complex, high-stakes problems for some of the world's most influential enterprises and governments.

As an Offering Manager on IBM's Cloud Portfolio team, you won't just manage timelines and budgets — you will act as the CEO of your offering, owning the strategy, the data infrastructure behind it, and the cross-functional relationships that bring it to market. You will use sharp technical instincts and analytical rigor to uncover what clients truly need, translate that into scalable cloud-native solutions, and drive measurable impact across IBM's portfolio performance, pricing, and revenue operations.

If leading cutting-edge data science and automation initiatives, shaping the direction of IBM's Cloud portfolio, and accelerating your technical career within a global technology leader excites you — this is your role.

Your role and responsibilities

• Collaborate across IBM Cloud product management, finance, and sales operations to identify opportunities and drive portfolio value
• Support senior product managers in the day-to-day and strategic management of cloud portfolio products
• Define and execute product strategy grounded in quantitative market, competitive, and financial analysis
• Build and maintain cross-platform analytical models and automated reporting capabilities
• Develop and contribute to a comprehensive product roadmap aligned to both technical architecture and commercial priorities
• Support sales and marketing initiatives through data-driven insights that accelerate revenue growth
• Track and communicate product performance metrics to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership
• Stay current on emerging technologies and best practices in cloud, data science, pricing models, and intelligent automation

This role offers significant career growth potential across IBM.

Required education

• Bachelor's Degree

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 portfoliodesigned 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

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

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.

City / Township / Village: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, DURHAM

State / Province: North Carolina

Country: United States

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Product Management

Employment type: Regular

Contract type: Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year: 99,200.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year: 148,800.00

Position type: Entry Level

No Travel

Company: (0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift: General (daytime)