(Consulting) Business Consultant – Manufacturing

As a Business Consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM's offerings and technologies. 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.

You will work on projects that help clients integrate strategy, process, technology, and information to increase effectiveness, reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value. You can take advantage of opportunities to master new skills, work across different disciplines, move into new challenges and develop a robust understanding of different industries.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Communicate with client on business requirement analysis and definition, including business process and product
• Gather client’s business processes, functional requirements and workflows, and create requirement documents
• Manage and track changes to system requirements throughout the development, testing and maintenance life cycle, maintaining accurate documentation at all times
• Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution
• Develop functional specifications and system design specifications for clients
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs
• Maintain continuous communication with client and developers throughout project lifecycle to ensure final product meets requirements and expected outcomes of the client
• Challenge users, business analysts and others to achieve appropriate and desired solution for the business