What are the responsibilities and job description for the Consultant - Simpler Business System position at IBM?
Introduction
A career at Simpler Consulting, an IBM Company is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
Simpler Consulting, an IBM company is part of IBM Consulting, 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.
Simpler delivers a hands-on, personalized, approach to create meaningful results and lasting change using the Simpler Business System ® (SBS). SBS is a proprietary and proven enterprise-wide transformation model built around Lean principles originally derived from the Toyota Production System. SBS combines management and improvement methods into one business system which enables organizations to continuously improve performance and maximize value to their customers.
Through partnership with our parent company, IBM, and their strategic partnerships we offer a combination of capabilities and services unique in the industry for integrating people, processes, technology, and data to reduce waste, increase effectiveness, and maximize customer-defined value for clients.
Curiosity and a quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in Simpler Consulting, an IBM Company. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas, and develop creative solutions for your clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
Your Role And Responsibilities
As a consultant, you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who partners with clients to drive meaningful transformations across all aspects of their organization by aligning strategies, optimizing resources, streamlining operations, and instilling a culture of continuous improvement.
A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.
Simpler’s Consultants support the planning, preparation, and implementation of improvement to enable better decision making. They have practical process improvement and data analytic experience and are essential for reinventing your business for the future.
The Consultants Are An Integral Part Of The Client Delivery Team. They Deliver Billable Work (on Site And Remote) For The Engagement And Their Support Is Typically The Following
Preferred Education
Master's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
A career at Simpler Consulting, an IBM Company is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
Simpler Consulting, an IBM company is part of IBM Consulting, 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.
Simpler delivers a hands-on, personalized, approach to create meaningful results and lasting change using the Simpler Business System ® (SBS). SBS is a proprietary and proven enterprise-wide transformation model built around Lean principles originally derived from the Toyota Production System. SBS combines management and improvement methods into one business system which enables organizations to continuously improve performance and maximize value to their customers.
Through partnership with our parent company, IBM, and their strategic partnerships we offer a combination of capabilities and services unique in the industry for integrating people, processes, technology, and data to reduce waste, increase effectiveness, and maximize customer-defined value for clients.
Curiosity and a quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in Simpler Consulting, an IBM Company. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas, and develop creative solutions for your clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
Your Role And Responsibilities
As a consultant, you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who partners with clients to drive meaningful transformations across all aspects of their organization by aligning strategies, optimizing resources, streamlining operations, and instilling a culture of continuous improvement.
A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.
Simpler’s Consultants support the planning, preparation, and implementation of improvement to enable better decision making. They have practical process improvement and data analytic experience and are essential for reinventing your business for the future.
The Consultants Are An Integral Part Of The Client Delivery Team. They Deliver Billable Work (on Site And Remote) For The Engagement And Their Support Is Typically The Following
- Identify, collect, analyze, and present data to drive actionable insights
- Complete detailed analytics to support the preparation, facilitation, and sustainment of value stream improvement
- Coach client team members on data collection and analysis to ensure successful root cause problem solving
- Provide data analytic support and coaching in the collection and analysis of performance data and the tracking of key metrics and financial benefits
- Support ongoing learning of the client’s team to ensure successful transformation and outcomes
- Use your excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills on a daily basis
Preferred Education
Master's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Knowledge and application of continuous improvement methodology such as of Toyota Production System, TPS, Lean, DMAIC principles, tools, and techniques
- Excel including intermediate to advanced Excel skills including formatting as table, creating pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, using embedded functions, selection of and creating the right chart type for the data, logical and organized structuring of files.
- Coaching, leading teams either in business, academic or personal level
- Executive presentation skills – using tools such as PowerPoint
- Engineering degree
- Background in manufacturing
- Knowledge of Agile practices or Lean certification
- Process Mining Experience
