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Introduction

Career and master's degree? At IBM, you can combine a promising workenvironment for the start of your career with a part-time master's course at arenowned university of your choice!
IBM is one of the world's largest providers of information technology solutions and business consultancy. Our vision is to bring a new level of ,smart' to how the world works. A place where people, businesses, governments and systems are interconnected and work together. A place where billions of people will live and work better.

What does Master@IBM offer you?
Within the scope of the 2-3 year Master@IBM program, we offer valuable professional experience in the area of a Data & AI software and professional services sales, which you will gain in parallel to your studies. You can complete the master study course at a university (or university of applied sciences) of your choice. The duration of studies depends on the respective university and is between two and three years. The volume of work allows you to focus sufficiently on your master's degree. Nevertheless, you can expect challenging assignments in a team-oriented and dynamic environment as well as many opportunities for active co-determination. You will also write your master's thesis in collaboration with your department.

Your role and responsibilities

Who are we looking for?
For our in-job master's program, we are looking for highly-motivated students from Business Informatics, Computer Science, or a related field courses. If you like to work in a team, work solution oriented and have good analytical skills and last but not least love to be challenged and learn something new every day then we are looking forward to receiving your application.

What can you expect from this position?
You will work closely with the fastest moving companies in the world and help them create innovation by using and implementing Data Analytics and AI technologies. In our dynamic and passionate sales team we cultivate a high team engagement and identify, develop, and close opportunities and deals with our clients and business partners that make their work work better. You will closely work with the Data Platform Leader as well as the sales team, client engineering, and technical sales to develop your sales skills, as well as practical sales experience in a highly strategic sales. Consultative sales, Data & AI technology, a faced paced environment and world leading innovation and research await you.


Key Responsibilities:
• Supporting the Business Unit Leader for Data & AI: This role involves assisting the leader responsible for managing the data and artificial intelligence business unit, potentially by providing insights, strategic guidance, or operational support.
• Strategic collaboration with Sales team experts: Working with experts within the sales team who have deep knowledge in data and AI to develop effective sales strategies and pitches.
• Collaboration with leading companies: Engaging with industry leaders to explore and possibly implement innovative business models that leverage data and AI.
• Accompaniment, support, and experiencing the entire sales cycle: Actively participating in all stages of the sales cycle, demonstrating strong sales and business acumen.
• Close collaboration across various roles: Building partnerships with multiple roles including sales managers, brand specialists, business partners, customers, and the broader IBM network.
• Creating innovative solutions: Developing unique, data-driven, and AI-powered solutions tailored to the needs of clients.
• Implementing your own ideas: Translating creative concepts into practical use cases and business cases that can be presented to potential clients.
• Coordinating new sales methods: Leading or participating in the development and execution of novel sales approaches, strategies, and campaigns to drive organizational growth.

What you bring:
• Bachelor's degree in Business Informatics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Deep passion for technology and innovative software solutions related to artificial intelligence and data science.
• Self-motivated and independent, with a knack for solving problems and embracing new challenges.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and customer-oriented skills.
• Passionate about new technologies in the field of Data & AI and how they can provide business value to clients
• Comes with a sales mindset and is keen to learn how to build compelling value propositions for clients
 
This job is only for candidates who will have finished their Bachelor studies by September 2025 (or earlier) and plan to start with a Master's Degree in autumn 2025 (Swiss university/university of applied sciences, study course of your choice).

How to apply:
Your application documents should include an informative CV as well as all certificates. Also add a cover letter that explains your motivation for undertaking a bachelor's degree as well as describing your qualification for working in the selected area.

Please note:
to upload further documents such as cover letter, certificates, references,you can upload them in the Candidate Zone after submitting your application.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Fluent in German & English (spoken and written)
Swiss nationality or Swiss valid work permit / EU nationality

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM 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 @ 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 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.


Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 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.

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, 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.


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