Job Vacancies at IBM

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 side-by-side to develop internal change-agent behaviors that build a culture of engagement, daily problem-solving, 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 front-line talent by coaching in Gemba
•  Look for opportunities to use value-stream 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 hands-on 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

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Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Brand Sales Specialist you’ll work closely with clients to develop relationships, understand their needs, earn their trust and show them how IBM’s industry leading solutions will solve their problems whilst delivering value to their business.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Maintain Client Relationships and Showcase IBM’s Tech Value: Actively maintain and nurture client relationships while effectively highlighting the value of IBM’s technology solutions.
• Utilize Solution-Selling Skills: Apply solution-selling techniques to engage with decision-makers, assess and qualify opportunities, and establish enduring partnerships.
• Oversee the Full Sales Process: Take charge of the entire sales process, from handling RFI/RFP responses to meeting key performance indicators (KPIs). The focus is on acquiring new business and expanding existing accounts.
• Collaborate with IBM’s Sales Network: Work in cooperation with IBM’s sales ecosystem to develop and execute sales campaigns, ultimately leading to the growth of the sales pipeline

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in Tech Sales: Actively acquiring new clients.
• Ability to Convey Tech Solutions: Effectively articulating the business and financial impact of tech solutions.
• Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills: Demonstrating engaging and influential communication and presentation abilities.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Data & AI Market Knowledge: Expertise in the Data & AI market to serve as a trusted client advisor (training on IBM’s Data & AI offerings will be provided).

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Your Role and Responsibilities

• Works with Client to design, develop and implement cognitive and advanced analytics solutions including configuration of cognitive services, technical integration and development of user interfaces.
• Conducts stakeholder analysis and develops communication plans including Design Thinking sessions. Executes communications. Develops metadata management repositories (e.g. data standards or business glossaries), captures business/data quality rules & quality thresholds and designs DQ reports & dashboards.
• Works with technical resources to implement rules in data quality and automate monitoring and reporting. May operate issue tracking process and facilitate resolution with Client.
• Has foundational knowledge of cognitive (WatsonX or other Gen AI Solutions) and analytics API’s, services and solutions including data governance technologies for data quality and metadata management.
• Has foundational knowledge of cognitive (WatsonX or other Gen AI Solution) and analytics API’s, services, and solutions including data governance technologies for data quality and metadata management.
• Is certified in traditional project management as well as experienced in Agile delivery of next-generation Cognitive Computing and Advanced Analytics project that maybe hosted on DevOps platform. Understands the challenges of execution and deployment of stochastic systems with probabilistic output, and is capable of articulating the value in appropriate terms to the stakeholders who are traditionally used to deterministic systems.
• Expected to establish and enforce the Cognitive Delivery Process, Methods and Tools.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Sales
• Project Delivery
• Data
• AI (Artificial Intelligence)
• Complex System Integration
• Cross Industry experience

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Your Role and Responsibilities

• IBMSA B-BBEE Skills Development Learnership Intern Program serves as an entry point for young people into the ICT industry and workplace, broadening their further understanding of workplace practices. On successful completion of the programme, learners receive a recognised National Qualifications Framework (NQF) certification in Systems Development.
• Our Interns are exposed to on-the-job training and exposure to the business environment​, whereby giving them a competitive advantage over applicants with no experience.
• The learning plan is designed to obtain theoretical knowledge and international badge certification, whilst also exploring emerging technologies. Our Learnership Programmes are registered with the MICT SETA. Learners have the privilege of being mentored and coached by extremely qualified employees during their workplace experience.
• The training providers we use are industry leaders in the field of study. When you join the Learnership Programme you will become part of a 24 month programme with milestones and certifications including international certifications over this period; this will allow you maximum exposure to various technologies in order to assist you to make an informed career choice.
• People with diverse abilities are continually enabled at IBM. We are inviting young visionaries with diverse abilities to join our team at IBM.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Matric / equivalent with Mathematics
• Strong academic results
• A passion for Information Technology
• Passion for leveraging technology to create enterprise wide solutions
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Analytical Thinker
• Deadline and results driven
• Maintain a positive attitude and provide exemplary customer service
• Ability to work independently and carry out assignments to completion
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to take initiative and make decisions
• Attention to detail
• Understand and maintain confidentiality/integrity
• Continuous learning – a curious mind and have willingness to learn
• Teamwork and collaboration mindset.