Senior Managing Consultant - Johannesburg, South Africa - IBM

IBM

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Johannesburg, South Africa

3 weeks ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Introduction
A career in IBM 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 cloud 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 IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM 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 development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Simpler Senior Managing Consultant, you will be responsible for supporting and delivering sustainable results based upon the Simpler Business System; eliminate waste, create value, improve process flow, and develop and document standard work, visual management and pull systems.

Senior Managing Consultants will be assigned to support one or more accounts where the revenue generating work occurs and drive the client to continue to ask "What's next? How do we improve from here?".

Responsibilities include:

Coach and transfer knowledge by working sidebyside to develop internal changeagent behaviors that build a culture of engagement, daily problemsolving, and respect for people.
Develop the client's management system and coach to build internal capability to sustain the management system
Serve as change agents, facilitate Value Stream Analysis, Rapid Improvement Events, and Managing for Daily Improvement
Develop leaders and frontline talent by coaching in Gemba
Look for opportunities to use valuestream thinking to improve the deployment of new technologies and digital information flows.
Provide focused daily management to ensure the adoption and implementation of improvement ideas into the daily operations and culture of the site, preventing regression back to prior methods and beliefs

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Proven, significant experience with the Toyota Production System.
Relevant transformation experience in a transformation system.
Understanding of business operations and business functions tactics.
Change agent with a record of dramatically better results and a willingness to challenge the status quo.
Experience coaching and leading continuous improvement techniques.
Significant handson process improvement experience.
Ability to create improved flow of value that is immediately visible and attributable to Simpler's coaching.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

MBA degree a plus
Industry 4.0 Knowledge and/or experience with Industry 4.0 technologies
Background in manufacturing.
Knowledge of Agile practices or certification

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.

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 d