Introduction

A career in Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the portfolio; including and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

This position resides in Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal and is a 4 month work term commencing in September 2024. It is mandatory that all applicants are enrolled in full-time studies at a post-secondary institution and returning to full-time studies upon completion of the work-term.

• Participate on a consulting project or initiative and experience first-hand how we help transform their business

• Focus on our clients' technical, business and user needs to co-create solutions that add value

• Work collaboratively to deliver innovative solutions for clients

• Develop an understanding of our client's future state goals and processes, then define the steps needed and leading technologies to help turn their goals into reality

• Learn about a client's industry, tackle new challenges, and learn about how their business and technology intersect.

• Join our IBM North America intern community and meet other IBMers during networking events, special team events and career development activities

At IBM, we prioritize ongoing learning, development of technical and core skills, and investing in your personal growth, all grounded in a culture of coaching and mentorship - you'll get exposure to all that and more as an intern.

Work you could do as a Consultant Intern:

IBM provides a variety of solutions to clients and our specialized teams serve these needs. As a result, the specific work and technologies vary by the team you may be joining. Below is a list of the types of work Consultant Interns do:

• Run or support workshops, meetings, and stakeholder interviews

• Document requirements from product owners/ business leads

• Translate client requirements into analytical specifications for the implementation of IBM solutions

• Define current and future operational scenarios (processes, models, use cases, plans and solutions)

• Work with clients using an agreed methodology to ensure proper translation of business requirements to solution requirements

• Develop communications tailored to specific audiences

• Work in Agile, collaborative environments

• Use IBM's Design Thinking to help solve client's challenges

• Analyze data to support conclusions and strategies, and design organization

• Assist with Cloud migration and system application implementation or upgrades (such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, SuccessFactors, UKG, and Salesforce)

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Can understand clients' needs and challenges and apply creative and logical approach to identify solutions

• Demonstrate quantitative analysis skills and ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights

• Can work on multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines, while maintaining focus in an environment with conflicting demands

• Ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply by listening actively and conveying difficult messages in a positive manner

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work effectively with individuals, strengthening relationships to achieve win-win solutions

• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of tools

• Must be eligible to work 4 months starting in September 2024

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view

• Can translate business requirements into technical solutions

• Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to adapt, with willingness to readily take ownership of tasks and problems

• Have initiative to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills

About Business UnitConsulting is '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 of collaboration. We believe in the of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

Your Life @ IBMIn 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'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 of an open hybrid 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 to run their business. At , 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.

Location StatementMust 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.

Being You @ IBMis committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.