Senior Managing Consultant - Sandton, South Africa - IBM

IBM

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Sandton, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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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 Consultant, you will serve as a client
- facing practitioner who partners with clients to drive meaningful transformations across all aspects of their organization by aligning strategies, optimizing resources, streamlining operations, and instilling a culture of continuous improvement.

A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.

Simpler's Consultants support the planning, preparation, and implementation of improvement to enable better decision making. They have practical process improvement and data analytic experience and are essential for reinventing your business for the future.

The Consultants are an integral part of the client delivery team.

They deliver billable work (on site and remote) for the engagement and their support is typically the following:

Identify, collect, analyze, and present data to drive actionable insights
Complete detailed analytics to support the preparation, facilitation, and sustainment of value stream improvement

Coach client team members on data collection and analysis to ensure successful root cause problem solving

Provide data analytic support and coaching in the collection and analysis of performance data and the tracking of key metrics and financial benefits

Support ongoing learning of the client's team to ensure successful transformation and outcomes Use your excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills on a daily basis

Required Technical and Professional Expertise- Excel including intermediate to advanced Excel skills including formatting as table, creating pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, using embedded functions, selection of and creating the right chart type for the data, logical and organized structuring of files.

Coaching, leading teams either in business, academic or personal level

Executive presentation skills using tools such as PowerPoint

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Background in healthcare and or manufacturing
Knowledge of practices or Lean certification
Process Mining Experience using Celonis or IBM Process Mining (previously myInvenio)
Agile

About Business UnitIBM 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.

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?