Power Project Manager - Expert Labs

Introduction
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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a successful Project Manager in Technology Expert Labs you will lead a team of technical experts to ensure the formulation development and implementation of projects that meet and exceed the client’s business objectives. In this role you will work closely with client stakeholders and the IBM team to meet the overall integrated solution plan budget schedule and staffing requirements while exceeding your client’s expectations. Project Managers 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.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Agile Project Delivery Expertise: A provable track record of project delivery disciplines and frameworks using agile best practices to successfully delivery in a way that’s both nimble and fast.
• Success in Communication and Relationship Building: Demonstrable success in communication and personal relationship development at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
• IBM Power Infrastructure Expertise: Familiar with the design deployment and optimization of infrastructure solutions for clients based on IBM Power servers running IBM i operating system with PowerVM virtualization.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Certifications for project/program management: Project or program certifications including but not limited to PMP CMMI Scrum Master or Aigle Project Management.
• Technology Expertise: Experience working with a broad spectrum of technology solutions including Data and AI Automation Sustainability Security Cloud Power Storage and zSoftware or equivalent technologies.
• Consulting Experience in Cloud Solutions: Experience working in consulting or project management for solutions including SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and/or Cloud.

• IBM i Expertise: Deep technical expertise in IBM i operating system.