**Introduction**
As a Strategy Consultant at IBM, you will help reinvent businesses and industries by developing and utilizing specialized knowledge of industry-specific and cross-industry competitive strategies.
You'll manage complex components of an engagement, working closely with clients and their customers to understand their pain points.
Your strategic recommendations will drive change in a digitally-enabled era and give you the opportunity to collaborate with highly talented IBMers.
Are you ready?
**Your Role and Responsibilities**
IBM Research is the innovation engine for IBM's leadership in enterprise computing, with a special focus on AI, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud.
Our success is grounded in our use of the scientific method to solve hard technology challenges in business, government, and society.
With 3,000 people in 16 labs on 6 continents, we are a global community of scientists, engineers, designers, and strategists inventing what's next in computing.
We validate our work with patents, peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, and customer use-cases.
If IBM Research were a country, we would have the 3rd most Turing Awards at six.
As an Innovation Strategist in IBM Research, you are challenged with gaining mastery of our global technology portfolio and being a connector-of-dots to strategic business opportunities for clients and for IBM.
You will work alongside our client engagement managers, Advanced Prototyping Team, and business development executives in bridging the gap between fundamental science and real-world impact.
You will conduct innovation strategy workshops with clients and prospects, authoring strategic reports guiding their engagements with IBM Research.
You will share responsibility for cultivating our technology asset databases and supporting client-facing content on our digital platforms.
By doing so, you will have unique perspective of both the big picture and the specific technical detail; this perspective will inform your recommendations to IBM and to clients regarding the strategic prioritization of promising technologies.
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**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Demonstrated ability to acquire technical knowledge, derive business value, connect dots across disciplines, and communicate clearly to business audiences
- Demonstrated knowledge of competitive business strategy and early product development
- Experience in R&D, consulting, product development, or a related field
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Strong organizational and database management
- Strong personal initiative, problem solving ability, and penchant for improving upon existing processes
- Bachelor's degree
- English Fluent / Native
**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- MBA or relevant advanced degree
**About Business Unit**
With more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents, IBM Research brings together hundreds of researchers who possess unparalleled industry expertise to address some of the world's most challenging problems.
Join us as we do pioneering work in areas such as cognitive computing, augmented intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain, to name a few.
Are you craving to learn more?
Prepared to solve some of the world's most unique challenges?
And ready to shape the future for millions of people?
If so, then it's time to join us, express your individuality, unleash your curiosity and discover new possibilities.
Every IBMer, and potential ones like yourself, has a voice, carves their own path, and uses their expertise to help co-create and add to our story.
Together, we have the power to make meaningful change - to alter the fabric of our clients, of society and IBM itself, to create a truly positive impact and make the world work better for everyone.
It's time to define your career.
**About IBM**
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 Statement**
IBM 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, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.