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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. To give yourself the best opportunity for success, we advise applying only to roles that align with your skills and experience, rather than applying broadly across all entry-level positions. You'll receive a status update email for each application, so be sure to check your IBM Careers account regularly — it's the best way to get a centralized view of which roles you have active applications against. As an Associate Package Specialist at IBM, you will help to assist clients in the selection, implementation, and production support of application packaged solutions, such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Workday, or SharePoint solution suite, to meet client needs. Leveraging a growth mindset, you're ready and willing to deliver business value, wherever needed. In your role, you may be responsible for: • Assisting clients in selection, implementation, and support of packages. • Make strategic recommendations and leverage business knowledge to drive solutions for clients and their management. • Run or support workshops, meetings, and stakeholder interviews. • Develop process maps to understand As-Is and To-Be scenarios. • Use IBM's Design Thinking to help solve client's challenges. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies, including SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, and others, depending on business needs and project requirements. • Ability to translate business solutions into technical requirements. • Openness to assist clients in the design, business architect, process development, functional implementation, and support of applications. • Ability to thrive in an ever changing, technology-based Consulting environment. • Ability to quickly learn enterprise systems and cloud-based applications. • A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view. • Exceptional quantitative analysis skills and ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights. • Willingness to travel up to 100% • Preferred Majors: MIS, Business/Finance/Accounting, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Human Resources. • Assist clients in selection, implementation, and support of packaged software solutions. • Internship, co-op or project experience with ERP systems (Workday, SAP, Oracle) or CRM (Salesforce) • Exposure to AI-driven tools to analyze data or improve workflow efficiency requirement gathering, testing, workflow efficiency. • Familiarity with reporting tools or basic SQL. • Understanding of core business process (HR, finance, or payroll). • Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines, while maintaining focus in an environment with conflicting demands. United States Software Engineering Entry Level Chicago, US (0147) International Business Machines Corporation