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Job Title: Supply Chain Professional – Planning, Scheduling & Inventory

Supply chain is the backbone of delivering value, from raw materials to finished products, ensuring that everything flows efficiently, intelligently, and on time. It involves planning, sourcing, production, logistics, and inventory management to meet customer and business needs. At IBM, our Supply Chain Organization is driven by continuous learning, innovation, agility, passion, and resiliency. These qualities empower our teams to deliver world-class products and solutions to clients and partners every single day. We harness the power of emerging technologies to build a transparent, predictive, and adaptive global supply chain—one that’s ready for today and built for the future. 

About the Role:
As a Supply Chain Professional at IBM, you’ll play a key role in ensuring that the right products and parts are available at the right time and place to meet customer and business needs. This role sits at the heart of IBM’s operational excellence, combining data analysis, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration to drive efficiency and innovation across the supply chain. You will be responsible for:

·         Planning: Forecasting demand and aligning supply strategies to meet business goals. You’ll analyze historical data, customer trends, and product lifecycles to create accurate demand plans.

·         Inventory Management: Monitoring stock levels, optimizing inventory placement, and reducing excess or obsolete inventory. You’ll help balance cost, availability, and serviceability across IBM’s supply chain.

·         Supply & Demand Analysis: Evaluate supply chain performance using key metrics and data trends to support planning decisions, resolve challenges, and ensure accurate demand forecasting based on inventory strategies and customer behavior.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll work with advanced tools and technologies (including SAP, Kinaxis, Watson 360) and collaborate with cross-functional teams (manufacturing, finance, supply, engineering, development, internal sales) and stakeholders to solve real-world challenges and continuously improve processes. 

What You’ll Do:

  • Analyze logistics and inventory data to identify trends and support decision-making.
  • Assist in managing supply and demand planning to meet business and revenue goals.
  • Support product lifecycle management and sourcing strategies for new product introductions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to expedite materials and improve fulfillment processes.
  • Apply agile, design thinking, and AI tools to enhance supply chain operations.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise


  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
  • Analytical mindset with attention to detail.
  • Willingness to innovate and contribute to process improvements.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience

 

Preferred technical and professional experience


  • Experience or familiarity with SAP and Kinaxis.
  • Exposure to data analytics tools or platforms
  • Understanding of inventory management, sourcing strategies, and product lifecycle concepts.

 

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

 

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

 

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

 

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.  

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.