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Introduction

At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team's overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!

Your Role and Responsibilities

The Blue Studio is IBM's internal creative team, responsible for the strategic evolution and expression of the IBM brand across every experience and encounter, internally and externally. We sit within IBM's Marketing function, representing and supporting all IBM businesses, both horizontally and vertically. Our work crosses nearly every category of output: research and strategy, communications and content development, symbology and systems, digital and physical experiences, and tools and training. Our goal is to maintain modernity, sophistication, and tangibility, and to promote understanding of the IBM brand in the world. The Blue Studio project manager is a key orchestrator, managing creative project expectationsamong 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.

Execution team advocacy

• 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

• External agency partner engagement and management

• 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

• Operational excellence

• 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 Technical and Professional Expertise

5+ years experience in the creative production and connecting content and experiences to buyer, market and channel trends

• Excellent expectation management, communication skills and fluency in Agile method

• Exemplary attention to detail and organization and a commitment to flawless execution.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience working at a start-up or creative or in-house agency alongside creative

partners

• PMI - ACP, Scrum or other relevant certification

• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, including Workfront

• Passion about taking a new-media approach to content, using data to inspire ideas

• Stellar reputation related to client service and over-delivery on business objectives

• Inherent curiosity as a digital consumer who understands the modern content

• Landscape.

About Business UnitIBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) team represents a variety of functions such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, all working together to solve some of the world's most complex problems, help our clients achieve success and build collaborative work environments for IBMers.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBMIn 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.

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About IBMIBM'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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