Consulting
Join our team of consultants and work on real projects with the brightest minds, around the globe. You’ll learn how to use our industry-leading research, advanced analytics and latest technology to solve our clients’ complex business issues. And you’ll discover some of the most innovative and flexible approaches, based on global expertise and world-class training.
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As a consultant you’ll become part of a global community and you’ll join our training program called ‘Consulting by Degrees’. As part of this, you’ll work directly with your management team to chart your career path – fast-tracking your opportunities for promotions and training. Once you’ve completed the program, we’ll work with you to find the specialism that best fits your skills and career goals. While making sure there’s room to balance your work with your life, of course.
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What do we do? We are helping to bring clean water to third world countries; championing efforts to combat climate change; helping traffic flow more freely; and helping consumers get more from mobile technology. A lot more than your average organisation, wouldn’t you agree?
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What the role involves
Business and technology. These are the areas our consultants excel in – working closely with clients to explore complicated challenges, offering crystal-clear advice and developing solutions.
As a Business Consultant, you will focus on various aspects of our clients’ business, including strategy and processes, asset management, transformational projects and organisation and people change. The work tends to be project-based, and typically your assignments will last 3-9 months. After that, you’ll move to another assignment (and often another client) to gain exposure to different aspects of our work.
As your skills and experience grow, you’ll help deliver solutions for our clients’ most challenging business problems. You could develop as a generalist consultant or specialise in one area, ultimately becoming one of our next generation of Business Analysts, Project Managers or industry specialists.
Do you have a PhD?
We offer PhD applicants a salary of up to £32,000 in addition to all the normal benefits that we offer our graduate hires. If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply using the normal graduate route.
Case studies
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Coventry launches first UK city’s mass online brainstorm: CovJam.
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Recipharm rolls out SAP solution in just seven months.
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BAT rationalises global leadership development.
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Flying through check-in with Ryanair.
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What we look for
- You will need to:
- Be looking to achieve (or already have) a 2:1 honours - in any degree
- Be meticulous and logical in the way you analyse and solve problems
- Be a clear and persuasive communicator
- Have a keen interest in business and technology
- Have a flexible attitude to your working patterns (you’ll often need to work at different client sites and IBM offices across the UK and occasionally abroad)
- Have the right to work in the UK
What the role involves
IBM is engaged with clients across all industries on some of the most relevant and exciting business and IT initiatives today – from intelligent transportation to smarter electricity management, from integrated commerce applications to improved healthcare. Our Technical Consultants play a critical role in these initiatives – analysing clients’ business challenges, designing innovative IT-based solutions and leading the technical aspects of their delivery.
Our graduate Technical Consultants focus on technical roles, growing a strong set of technical and consulting skills and then progressing onto solution design and technical leadership roles at increasing levels of responsibility.
You will have the opportunity to work alongside some of the world’s leading technical experts, learning from their experience as you take on increasing challenges and responsibilities and providing an opportunity for strong career growth.
Do you have a PhD?
We offer PhD applicants a salary of up to £32,000 in addition to all the normal benefits that we offer our graduate hires. If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply using the normal graduate route.
Our ambition is to enable you to become one of IBM’s technical leaders - leading the complex, challenging and exciting Smarter Planet solutions – and growing into our next generation of Technical Advisors, Solution Architects and Technical Programme Managers.
During your first 2 years, you will move between different assignments, typically spending 3-9 months in each. These will give you the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies and to experience a number of varying roles, including:
- Business analysis
- Software development
- Software package configuration
- Technical solution design
- Technical project management
What we look for
You will need to:
- Be looking to achieve (or already have) a 2:1 honours degree - ideally in computing, engineering, mathematics or numerate sciences
- Have some experience of programming and/or a basic knowledge of IT solution concepts
- Have a keen interest in learning how to use technology to solve clients’ business problems and relish the prospect of designing and delivering these solutions for clients
- Have a flexible attitude to your working patterns (you’ll often need to work at different client sites and IBM offices across the UK and occasionally abroad)
- Have the right to work in the UK
Harpreet - Technical Consultant
University:
The University of St. Andrews
Degree subject:
Neuroscience
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Case studies
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The DVLA joins forces with the Motor Insurers Bureau and IBM to tackle uninsured driving.
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Wimbledon enhances the experience for tennis fans with augmented reality solutions.
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CLS transforms worldwide foreign exchange trading with IBM.
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Nationwide transforms its online banking with IBM.
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Thanks to IBM’s e-commerce software and services solution, Arcadia’s TopShop brand successfully manages the launch of its Kate Moss clothing collection.
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IBM helps Defra develop a noise mapping web portal that can provide the most comprehensive snapshot of noise pollution to public and planners.
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Fabergé pushes boundaries to deliver luxury shopping experience on the Web.
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What the role involves
Financial planning, reporting and budgeting. These are all areas where we make a difference to our clients’ financial management. Working with clients to offer better ways for them to manage their finance processes, you’ll get involved in analysing data, researching best practice and presenting the results to help clients plan their next steps.
As a Financial Management Consultant you’ll work on projects either based at a client site or an IBM office. All projects and roles are different, and this is a large part of the excitement of working in financial management consulting.
The work you’ll be involved in will contain a high degree of analytical content, and you’ll find yourself in challenging client-facing roles from a very early stage in your career. Financial Management Consultancy can provide tremendously rewarding career opportunities for those with the right set of skills and talents.
Case studies
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London & Continental Railways delivers high-speed rail link supported by financial expertise from IBM.
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What we look for
You will need to:
- Be looking to achieve (or already have) a 2:1 honours degree – ideally in business, finance or accounting
- Be looking towards pursuing a professional qualification (CIMA)
- Have first class analytical skills coupled with a creative and innovative approach to problem solving
- Have a passion for business and finance, with a high level of integrity
- Have the right to work in the UK
Do you have a PhD?
We offer PhD applicants a salary of up to £32,000 in addition to all the normal benefits that we offer our graduate hires. If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply using the normal graduate route.
What the role involves
Our Business Dynamics Group is the centre of excellence for analytics and business modelling. An enthusiastic and diverse group within the Business Analytics and Optimisation (BAO) service line, we perform strategy consulting with an analytical twist.
As a Strategic Analytics Consultant you can expect to work on projects providing specialist analytics or business modelling support. Project roles (and projects themselves) can last anything from a few weeks to over a year, and can be based at a client site, an IBM location or a combination of both.
We usually work as part of a small team – either with other consultants, or as the modelling specialist within a team of industry experts. Part of the attraction is that all projects and roles are different – and in these roles your work will contain a high degree of analytical content, and you’ll find yourself in challenging client-facing roles from a very early stage in your career.
Case studies
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Defra applies analytics to develop green strategy.
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Essex County Council utilises business modelling to set sustainable public service standards.
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London & Continental Railways employs expert financial modelling to help deliver high-speed rail link.
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Power NI uses analytics to understand market uncertainty.
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What we look for
You will need to:
- Be looking to achieve (or already have) a 2:1 honours degree - in mathematics, science, engineering, operational research or any subject with a high level of mathematical content
- Have Grade A or above in A-level Maths (or equivalent)
- Have first class analytical skills and numeracy with a desire to solve business problems using analytical and modelling approaches
- Be driven, committed and not afraid to take ownership of a project
- Have the confidence and motivation to work on a client’s premises from an early stage in your career – working independently or as part of a team
- Have a flexible attitude to your working patterns (you’ll often need to work at different client sites and IBM offices across the UK and occasionally abroad)
- Have the right to work in the UK
Do you have a PhD?
We offer PhD applicants a salary of up to £37,000 in addition to all the normal benefits that we offer our graduate hires. If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply using the normal graduate route.
Sophie - Strategic Analytics Consultant
University: The University of Southampton
Degree subject: Mathematics with Music
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