Managing Strategy Consultant-Retail & Consumer Goods (m/f/x/)

Job description

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Strategy Consultant at IBM, you'll be working closely with clients and their customers to understand their pain points, bringing together IBM's unique capabilities across strategy, innovation, design, data analytics, cognitive computing, and technology platforms to develop and deliver high-impact transformation programs. Leveraging a growth mindset, you're ready and willing to deliver business value, wherever needed. In your role, you may be responsible for:
·  Partners with CEO and other C-Suite executives to create, visualize, and achieve strategies that enable innovation, growth, and modern business reinvention, leveraging insight-driven accelerators and emerging tech.
·  Requires expertise in digital growth strategy, business model innovation, emerging tech strategy, product and digital pricing strategy, data monetization, complex stakeholder management, and cognitive strategy among other skills.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Strong experience (3+ years) as strategy consultant in retail and the consumer goods industry specializing in crafting innovative strategies along the entire value chain.
·  Proven track record in project and delivery management, with a preference for experience as an external consultant.
·  Excellent communication skills, fluent in both German and English, to facilitate effective communication in diverse settings.
·  Exceptional analytical skills to solve complex business challenges and derive strategic solutions.
·  Comfortable with taking decisive action and using proven methodologies.
·  Strong interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work effectively in a hybrid team set-up.
·  Committed and self-motivated, consistently aiming for high standards of performance.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Proficient in addressing challenges related to supply chain and digital business strategies, market entry and portfolio strategies and technology-driven change programs.
·  Skilled in crafting new digital target operating models to drive business innovation.
·  Skilled at analysing business models and calculating the financial viability of various business cases.