Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.
Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.
As a Project Manager Intern, you will work closely with a Project Manager coach to manage industry-leading solutions to IBM clients and the IBM team to meet the overall integrated solution plan, budget, schedule, and staffing requirements while exceeding your client's expectations. Project Managers Intern at IBM succeed by demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and presenting solutions.
If you are passionate about success, with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to…
- Project Management: Creating and executing project management plans including, financial, scope, and change, deliverables and communication controls.
- Cross-Team Communication: Strong communication skills (written and verbal) with the client, partner, and account team on project status.
- Reporting and Metrics Management: Report and strategize solutions for managing project metrics including project health, financials-costs, revenue, and gross profit, team productivity, and client satisfaction.
- Building Credibility and Influences: Navigating across venues to resolve issues, developing and documenting risk mitigation strategies, providing project direction that quickly builds credibility and influences as a trusted advisor.
- Developing a high-performing team: Cultivating teamwork and problem-solving while working under delivery expectations and deadlines.
- Empathy and Service Skills: Demonstrating empathy and service orientation skills for client success.
* Currently pursuing a university degree, with good academic performance, in disciplines such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Software Engineering.
* Experience or knowledge of tools such as Excel (including Macros) and Python.
* Fluency in English.
* Good interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate in agile environments.
* Proactivity, growth mindset, and desire to continually learn.
* Leadership skills, effective communication, and adaptability to new challenges.
* Availability to intern in one of the following shifts: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM or 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM.