Introduction
As a Strategy Consultant at IBM, you will help reinvent businesses and industries by developing and utilizing specialized knowledge of industry-specific and cross-industry competitive strategies. You'll manage complex components of an engagement, working closely with clients and their customers to understand their pain points. Your strategic recommendations will drive change in a digitally-enabled era and give you the opportunity to collaborate with highly talented IBMers. Are you ready?

Your Role and Responsibilities
Who you are:
As Planning Specialist, you are responsible to facilitate tactic development through Production Partners and Marketing Managers, and ensuring timelines are met. You will perform art and copy proofing, link validation, and facilitates creative approval process from legal.
What you'll do:

• Leading a project team in delivering a solution to the client using the appropriate business measurements and terms and conditions for the project according to the project charter, project agreement or contract
• Overall performance responsibility for managing scope, schedule, and contractual deliverables, which includes applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management
• Establishing an effective communication plan with the project team and the client.
• Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the client
• As and when team need performs art proofing at multiple stages to the specific standards held for each product and/or channel
• Conduct research and resolve budget inquiries
• Facilitate list critical issue with Research and Analytics (R&A), Originator, Marketing Manager and Campaign Analyst to secure resolution and approval
• Accountable for obtaining legal and compliance approvals and closing out in required systems
• Review and validate campaign workflow/process flow for given campaign
• Support development and validation of launch plan for the respective tactic/channel/campaign
• Coordinate with stakeholders and ensure timely launch of the campaign

How we’ll help you grow:

• You will have access to all the technical and management training courses for you to become the expert you want to be
• You will learn directly from expert developers in the field; our team leads love to mentor
• You’ll have the opportunity to work in many different areas to figure out what really excites you

We at IBM, always believe that it is extremely important to have the right person for the right job and you are a perfect fit to this strategy. We want people with the ability to learn; who are ready to put good ideas into action – We wish you great success in your career and encourage you to bring your best self to work with IBM.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 5 years of experience in campaign management, digital marketing, project management, people management and client engagement
• Expertise in campaign planning, project planning, and MS suits tools
• Ability to provide relevant documentation and obtain Legal approval for owned tactics
• Excel Reporting
• Knowledge of Marketing Compliance will be a plus point
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals.
• Ability to handle change and be open to it good time management and an ability to work under stress
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Maintain technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications.
• Experience in documentation (change management, request for proposal, error logs)

IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.

Are you craving to learn more? Prepared to solve some of the world's most unique challenges? And ready to shape the future for millions of people? If so, then it's time to join us, express your individuality, unleash your curiosity and discover new possibilities.

Every IBMer, and potential ones like yourself, has a voice, carves their own path, and uses their expertise to help co-create and add to our story. Together, we have the power to make meaningful change – to alter the fabric of our clients, of society and IBM itself, to create a truly positive impact and make the world work better for everyone.

It's time to define your career.

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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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