Introduction

At IBM Finance & Operations, we are the backbone of IBM's transformation driving efficiency, transparency, and smart decision-making across the business. Our teams provide the insight and discipline that guide strategy, ensure financial strength, and enable IBM to invest in innovation and growth. Working in Finance & Operations means combining analytical skills with collaboration and curiosity. You'll partner with colleagues across functions and geographies, using data, technology, and process excellence to create solutions that improve performance and deliver measurable impact. IBM offers continuous learning, career development, and a culture that values diverse perspectives. Join us and be part of a global team that keeps IBM moving forward, while building your own future in a dynamic and evolving environment.

Your Role and Responsibilities

The Associate Project Manager - Technical is responsible for following general instructions and working with minimal supervision to prioritize work and meet deadlines.

The role exercises judgment when working on routine and semi-routine project assignments and resolves issues of limited to moderate complexity.

The role is responsible for managing and leading small-scale projects or portions of larger projects and collaborates with team members to ensure successful project execution.

- Manage and lead small-scale projects or project components from inception to completion, ensuring adherence to scope, schedule, budget, and successful sprint execution.
- Develop project documentation, including project plans, schedules, and status reports.
- Identify and resolve project issues of limited complexity, escalating as necessary.
- Support project team members by providing guidance on project activities and deliverables.
- Facilitate project meetings, ensuring clear communication of objectives, decisions, and action items.
- Track and report project metrics, KPIs, and progress against milestones.
- Develop and maintain cooperative relationships with key stakeholders to promote project success and buy-in.
- Communicate project updates and recommendations to project stakeholders and management.
- Apply agile methodologies to promote continuous improvement and iterative project delivery.

Required Education

- Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- Complex Project Delivery: Experience with managing large-scale projects, ensuring delivery of solutions for complex IT, business, and client requirements, and applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management.
- Contract Management:



Experience with managing complex business outsourcing contracts, including establishing and maintaining effective relationships with clients and subcontractors.
- Strategic Risk Management: Exposure to applying strategic risk taking and risk management skills to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with complex projects.
- Team Leadership: Experience with leading project teams, providing day-to-day direction, and establishing effective communication plans with team members and clients.
- Business Analysis: Experience with analyzing business challenges, applying strategic innovative thinking for insights, and developing solutions to complex business problems.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

- Complex IT Solution Delivery: Exposure to delivering solutions for complex IT, business, and client requirements, including experience with managing large-scale projects and applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management.
- Business Outsourcing Contract Management: Experience with managing complex business outsourcing contracts, including establishing and maintaining effective relationships with clients and subcontractors.
- Strategic Risk Assessment: Exposure to applying strategic risk taking and risk management skills to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with complex projects.

Years of Experience

0 - 1

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 current 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 every day, 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 ongoing 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 every day 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.

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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.

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