Associate Strategy Consultant (f/m/x)

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Vienna, AustriaPosted Aug 7, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities Du hast Freude daran, anspruchsvolle Probleme zu lösen, neue Ansätze zu entwickeln und innovative Ideen voranzutreiben. Du möchtest Unternehmen dabei unterstützen, große Veränderungen in ihrer Belegschaft, ihren Organisationsstrukturen und ihrer Führungskultur zu meistern. Wenn das auf dich zutrifft, bietet IBM das richtige Umfeld. Bei IBM entscheidest du, wie du am besten arbeitest – unterstützt durch flexible Arbeitsmodelle, offene Teamarbeit und Kolleg:innen, die Initiative, Kreativität und gemeinsame Erfolge schätzen. Woran du arbeiten wirst:In einem multidisziplinären Beratungsteam arbeitest du mit führenden Unternehmen zusammen, um sie bei der Bewältigung schnelllebiger technologischer, wirtschaftlicher und belegschaftsbezogener Veränderungen zu unterstützen. Deine Arbeit kann sich auf folgende Themen konzentrieren:
  • Digitalisierung und KI-gestützte Veränderungen in der Arbeitsweise
  • Transformation von Organisationen und der Arbeitsplatz der Zukunft
  • Demografischer Wandel und globaler Fachkräftemangel
Basierend auf deinen Stärken wirst du in einem unserer Kernbereiche tätig sein:Organisationsstrategie und -design:
  • Bewertung von Organisationsleistung und -effektivität
  • Entwicklung von Operating Models für datengetriebene und KI-gestützte Unternehmen
  • Leitung von End-to-End-Transformationen im Einklang mit neuen Geschäftsprioritäten
Talentstrategie und Leadership Development:
  • Gestaltung unternehmensweiter Talentstrategien für Kunden
  • Aufbau von Kompetenzmodellen, Rollenframeworks und kompetenzbasierten Strukturen
  • Unterstützung von Workforce-Planning- und Organisationsdesign-Initiativen
  • Diese Position ist innerhalb der Hybrid Cloud & Data Service Line
Required education Bachelor's Degree Preferred education Master's Degree Required technical and professional expertise
  • Laufendes oder kürzlich abgeschlossenes Masterstudium, idealerweise in Betriebswirtschaft, Organisationswissenschaften, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Wirtschaftsinformatik oder verwandten Bereichen
  • Praktikumserfahrung in der Strategieberatung oder in einer strategischen Funktion in einem Industrieunternehmen
  • Ausgeprägte analytische Fähigkeiten sowie exzellente Kommunikations- und Kundeninteraktionsfähigkeiten
  • Affinität für beratenden Vertrieb zur Unterstützung unseres Business Development Teams in frühen Projektphasen
  • Fähigkeit, komplexe Ideen verständlich und überzeugend auf Deutsch und Englisch zu vermitteln
  • Fundiertes Wissen über neue Technologien, KI und digitale Transformation
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Offenheit, an verschiedenen Projekten in unterschiedlichen Regionen zu arbeiten
  • Antrieb, dein Wissen kontinuierlich zu erweitern
  • Geschick darin, unterschiedliche Expertenmeinungen in ein kohärentes Konzept zu bringen
  • Erfahrung im Einsatz von KI in deinen täglichen Aufgaben

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.


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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.

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