Integration Strategy Consultant – 2027 Full Time ELH

IBM; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) & pension plan

Paid time off

AI-driven learning platform

Diversity and inclusion programs

Job summary

The IBM Integration team is a small, specialized group within IBM’s Strategy, Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and Ventures. It drives end-to-end integration across CIO, Q2C, and Procurement, guiding transformation within Finance & Operations.

As an Integration Strategy Consultant, you will analyze problems, develop insights, and deliver recommendations to drive integration and growth, collaborating with Global Process Owners to explore new opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience in integration management within large organizations or consulting.
• Strong understanding of F&O's goals, priorities, and growth areas.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Familiarity with technologies, processes, and systems used in F&O transformations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement integration strategies and plans to ensure seamless collaboration between F&O teams and external partners.
• Manage the integration of new technologies, processes, and systems to support F&O's transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and address integration challenges and opportunities.
• Provide guidance and support to team members during the integration process, ensuring a smooth transition and minimal disruption to operations.
• Monitor and report on integration progress, identifying areas for improvement and making recommendations for process enhancements.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in integration and transformation, and incorporate relevant insights into F&O's integration strategies.

Skills

Integration management

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Business case development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business, Engineering, or related

Master's degree

Tools

MS Office

Statistical software

SaaS tools for financial analysis

Monday

Clari

Salesforce

Box

Teams

Slack

Job description

The IBM Integration team is a small, specialized group that is part of the Strategy, Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and Ventures team. We are responsible for leading and managing the integration of various teams, processes, and technologies across IBM’s Operational teams. This includes the end to end processes for the CIO, Q2C, and Procurement teams, and others across the shared services organizations, spanning all of Finance & Operations (F&O). This role requires a strong understanding of F&O's business goals, future priorities, and anticipated areas of growth.

As an Integration Strategy Consultant, you will manage integration of acquired companies across corporate processes, and drive critical transformation of IBM by developing and applying knowledge of industry-specific and cross-industry competitive strategies. You will analyze problems, formulate hypotheses, develop insights, and deliver recommendations to drive integration, growth and transformation, working with IBM Global process Owners to investigate new market opportunities and business models. You will bring outside-in perspectives that may challenge beliefs through data-driven analysis, working closely with internal clients across different IBM businesses to co-create strategies for change. Your strategic recommendations will drive change in a digitally-enabled era and give you the opportunity to collaborate with highly talented IBMers.

The work and team culture provide you with the opportunity to work alongside and be mentored by senior strategy consultants and executives in a collaborative team environment. Every individual on the team with a quest for knowledge has a voice to add to IBM’s story. Your career journey will evolve from being responsible for a specific module of a project to developing specialized knowledge and owning larger, more complex workstreams. All projects vary in size and length. As a member of the IBM Integration team you will gain exposure to IBM at a transformational moment in its illustrious 115-year history. Join us to help shape IBM as it defines the Hybrid Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum markets.

Your role and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement integration strategies and plans to ensure seamless collaboration between F&O teams and external partners.
• Manage the integration of new technologies, processes, and systems to support F&O's transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and address integration challenges and opportunities.
• Provide guidance and support to team members during the integration process, ensuring a smooth transition and minimal disruption to operations.
• Monitor and report on integration progress, identifying areas for improvement and making recommendations for process enhancements.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in integration and transformation, and incorporate relevant insights into F&O's integration strategies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in integration management, preferably within a large organization or a consulting firm.
• Strong understanding of F&O's business goals, future priorities, and anticipated areas of growth.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Familiarity with relevant technologies, processes, and systems used in F&O's transformation initiatives.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Experience working as a consultant, delivering significant transformation
• A master's degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering or Accounting or a bachelor’s degree and professional experience
• Proven experience across a range of technology (MS Office, Statistical Software, discounted cash flow toolsets, Saas technologies for financial analysis and project skills (Monday, clari, Salesforce, Box, Teams, Slack, etc)
• Strong knowledge of IBM Finance & Operation teams
• Strong ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Business case development and execution
• Strong leadership and relationship building skills; and ability to gain consensus with key stakeholders.
• Strong project leadership & presentation skills

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM’s financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk.Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

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 offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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.

Integration Strategy Consultant – 2027 Full Time ELH