Delivery Project Manager

Introduction

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you'll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You'll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that's passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

Your role and responsibilities

As a successful Project Manager in Technology Expert Labs, you will lead a team of technical experts to ensure the formulation, development, and implementation of projects that meet and exceed the client's business objectives. In this role, you will work closely with client stakeholders and the IBM team to meet the overall integrated solution plan, budget, schedule, and staffing requirements while exceeding your client's expectations. Project Managers at IBM succeed by demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and presenting solutions.

If you are passionate about success, with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to...

• Project Management: Creating and executing project management plans including, financial, scope, and change, deliverables and communication controls.
• Cross-Team Communication: Strong communication skills (written and verbal) with the client, partner, and account team on project status.
• Reporting and Metrics Management: Report and strategize solutions for managing project metrics including project health, financials-costs, revenue, and gross profit, team productivity, and client satisfaction.
• Building Credibility and Influences: Navigating across venues to resolve issues, developing and documenting risk mitigation strategies, providing project direction that quickly builds credibility and influences as a trusted advisor.
• Developing a high-performing team: Cultivating teamwork and problem-solving while working under delivery expectations and deadlines.
• Empathy and Service Skills: Demonstrating empathy and service orientation skills for client success.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Agile Project Delivery Expertise: A provable track record of project delivery disciplines and frameworks using agile best practices to successfully delivery in a way that's both nimble and fast.
• Success in Communication and Relationship Building: Demonstrable success in communication and personal relationship development at all levels - from engineers to CIOs - with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
• Data and AI Technology Experience: Experience with building creditability for Data and AI methodology and practices for data management, data fabric, data governance, trustworthy AI and business analytics or equivalent enterprise solutions.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Certifications for project/program management: Project or program certifications including but not limited to PMP, CMMI, Scrum Master or Aigle Project Management.
• Technology Expertise: Experience working with a broad spectrum of technology solutions including Data and AI, Automation, Sustainability, Security, Cloud, Power, Storage and zSoftware or equivalent technologies.
• Consulting Experience in Cloud Solutions: Experience working in consulting or project management for solutions including SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and/or Cloud.
• Expertise in Data and IT Technologies: Good expertise requires a technical level in data and IT software technologies.