Supply Chain Professional - STUDENT CONVERSION

At IBM Infrastructure & Technology, we design and operate the systems that keep the world running. From high-resiliency mainframes and hybrid cloud platforms to networking, automation, and site reliability. Our teams ensure the performance, security, and scalability that clients and industries depend on every day. Working in Infrastructure & Technology means tackling complex challenges with curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies and colleagues worldwide to deliver resilient, future-ready solutions that power innovation. With continuous learning, career growth, and a supportive culture, IBM provides the opportunities to build expertise and shape the infrastructure that drives progress. As a Supply Chain Professional, you will manage all aspects of assigned commodities worldwide, ensuring demand validation, supply closure, and inventory mitigation. You will act as a focal point for supply issues and coordinate problem resolution, representing the brand in cross-brand supply assurance issues. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Demand and Supply Management: Manage demand validation, supply closure to weekly demand, and inventory mitigation for assigned commodities worldwide. • Supply Issue Resolution: Act as a focal point for all supply issues, coordinating problem resolution, balancing, and allocation activities. • EC Analysis and Processing: Process engineering changes (ECs) through SAP/MAPICS, setting effective dates based on EC disposition, supply, and product schedules. • Business Control and Review: Conduct management reviews of key measurements and secondary indicators by function and department level. • Inventory Transfer: Transfer new part numbers to Supply Chain Systems (SCS) once they are stable. • Commodity Management Experience: Exposure to managing demand validation, supply closure, and inventory mitigation for commodities worldwide. • Supply Chain Operations Knowledge: Experience working with supply issue resolution, including balancing and allocation activities. • SAP/MAPICS Proficiency: Exposure to processing engineering changes (ECs) through SAP/MAPICS, setting effective dates based on EC disposition, supply, and product schedules. • Data Analysis Skills: Experience analyzing CPE output to ensure PO coverage and support break-in of new parts. • Business Control Understanding: Exposure to conducting management reviews of key measurements and secondary indicators by function and department level. • Commodity Management Experience: Exposure to managing multiple commodities worldwide, with an understanding of demand validation, supply closure, and inventory mitigation. • Advanced SAP/MAPICS Skills: Experience working with SAP/MAPICS to process engineering changes, analyze CPE output, and ensure PO coverage. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Exposure to working with various functions and departments to resolve supply issues, balance allocation activities, and conduct management reviews.