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Introduction

At IBM, we believe technology shapes the world, and we are a catalyst for that innovation and creativity. We are on the forefront of groundbreaking change  improving businesses, society, and the human condition.

Our Marketing, Communications & Corporate Social Responsibility (MCC) team tells this story and is responsible for positioning IBM in the market. We define and optimize IBM’s brand, capture the market’s attention, and articulate our point of view for clients, partners, the media, and even other IBMers. As part of our team, you’ll be surrounded by bright minds and keen collaborators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that will compel our audience to choose IBM’s products and services.

When you join IBM, you join a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust. Join us and experience a place where you can co-create your learning and opportunities. A place where teamwork and unique ideas are treasured. A place where you can bring innovation to life.

Your role and responsibilities

The Blue Studio project manager is a key orchestrator, managing creative project expectations among stakeholders, the Blue Studio and agency partners to uphold our creative excellence. The role covers 3 key tenets: execution team advocacy, external agency partner management and operational excellence.

  • Understands what work is flowing through the IBM Blue Studio and external
    agency teams and acts as a voice to bring concerns or issues back to broader cross-functional teams
  • Acts as a champion for the team, ensuring needs are met and positioning the team’s work correctly within any conversation
  • Helps the team evolve work processes based on efficiencies gained over time
  • Hosts kickoff of agency work with appropriate SMEs and IBM Blue Studio directional leads
  • Helps guide and steer development of work with the appropriate IBM SMEs and IBM Blue Studio directional leads to ensure it meets business objectives
  • Ensures that deliverables are finalized as expected and conducts project closing procedures, including retrospectives with external agency partners
  • Guides short-term and long-term planning exercises with the creative team by putting appropriate structure and timelines in place meet forecast demand
  • Is responsible for escalation of service issues against assigned area of responsibility
  • Ensures that appropriate creative workflows and prioritization exercises are routine and raises blockers as needed
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Extensive experience in creative production and connecting content and experiences with buyer, market and channel trends
  • Excellent expectation management, communication skills and fluency in the Agile method
  • Experience working in a start-up or creative agency or in-house with creative partners
  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, including Workfront
  • Fluent in English
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Passion for taking a new media approach to content, using data to inspire ideas
  • Exceptional reputation for customer service and exceeding business objectives
  • Inherent curiosity as a digital consumer who understands the modern content landscape
  • Exemplary attention to detail and organization and a commitment to flawless execution

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.

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