Associate Business Transformation Consultant - IoT & PLM

cused on learning, innovation, and solving real client problems.

The Role
As an Associate Consultant in Supply Chain Transformation, you'll help clients modernise how they source, plan, move, and deliver goods and services. You'll work across procurement, logistics, operations, and data driven decision making-helping clients design efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.This role is ideal for someone who enjoys analysing how things work, improving processes, and applying technology to real world operational challenges.

What You'll Do

• Support workshops, interviews, and meetings with client supply chain teams

• Map and assess current state procurement or supply chain processes

• Identify inefficiencies and help design improved "future state" workflows

• Analyse data using spreadsheets or databases to uncover insights

• Help translate business needs into technology enabled solutions

• Work in agile teams across consulting, design, technical, and industry specialists

• Prepare clear, structured outputs for clients, from reports to visual process maps

• Apply IBM problem solving and design methods to real world challenges

Why IBM Consulting?
You'll learn from experienced consultants, gain technical and industry training, and work on projects that shape how global supply chains operate. You'll join a community that values diverse perspectives, continuous learning, and real world impact.

Being You @ IBM
We're an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Must be a UK citizen (due to public‑sector project requirements and clearance needs)

• Willingness to travel as required

• A final year student or recent graduate in Supply Chain, Business Management, Economics, Engineering, or a related STEM/numerate degree

• Analytical and structured in your problem solving approach

• Interested in procurement, logistics, operations, or supply chain improvement

• Able to break down complex processes and identify opportunities to improve them

• Comfortable working with numbers, data, spreadsheets, or simple databases

• Clear communicator who can simplify technical or operational information

• Curious, adaptable, and motivated by solving practical client challenges

• Familiarity with process improvement techniques or emerging technologies (like IoT, Industry 4.0, or automation) is helpful but not required

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In 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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM'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 500 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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.