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IBM Project Manager in Markham, Ontario
Introduction
Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-
class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all
the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging
problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value
confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best
running and growing their business.
Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive
impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of
a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators-always willing to help
and be helped-as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a successful Project Manager in Technology Expert Labs, you will support a team oftechnical experts to ensure the formulation, development, and implementation of projectsthat meet and exceed the client's business objectives. In this role, you will work closely withclient stakeholders and the IBM team to meet the overall integrated solution plan, budget,schedule, and staffing requirements while exceeding your client's expectations. ProjectManagers at IBM succeed by demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation andinitiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and presentingsolutions. If you are passionate about success, with both your career and solving clients' businesschallenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the life' ofthis 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 Technical and Professional Expertise
Agile Project Delivery Knowledge: Demonstrate an understanding of project delivery disciplines and frameworks using agile best practices
Success in Communication and Relationship Building: Demonstrable success in communication and personal relationship development at all levels - from engineers to CIOs
Solutions Delivery Expertise: Familiar with the design, deployment and post- production support
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Certifications for project/program management: Project or program certifications including but not limited to PMP, CMMI, Scrum Master or Agile 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
About Business UnitIBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company's Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM's global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients' growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.
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.
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About IBMIBM'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 50 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.
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 @ IBMIBM is 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. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.