Procurement Operations Professional; Apprentice Conversion

At IBM Finance & Operations, we are the backbone of IBM’s transformation driving efficiency, transparency, and smart decision-making across the business. Our teams provide the insight and discipline that guide strategy, ensure financial strength, and enable IBM to invest in innovation and growth. Working in Finance & Operations means combining analytical skills with collaboration and curiosity. You’ll partner with colleagues across functions and geographies, using data, technology, and process excellence to create solutions that improve performance and deliver measurable impact.

IBM offers continuous learning, career development, and a culture that values diverse perspectives. Join us and be part of a global team that keeps IBM moving forward, while building your own future in a dynamic and evolving environment.

As a Procurement Operations Professional, you will support various procurement activities and tasks that are not sourcing specific, ensuring maximum value add is attained for IBM's clients. This role involves multiple job role specialties, including business operations, policies and practices, global compliance, client services, bid management, supplier contract development, and negotiation.

• Deliver Client Services: Provide exceptional client services, applying procurement business techniques to understand and satisfy client needs. Interface and support IBM's procurement teams, promoting collaboration and alignment.
• Support Procurement
  
  Activities:
  
  Ensure procurement activities align with the organization's goals, supporting IBM strategic supply issues.
• Analyze Data: Analyze large data sets to enable Procurement to drive business success.
• Improve Processes: Apply analytic skills to utilize cognitive tools, drive business value, and improve procurement processes. Utilize root cause analysis and change management techniques to address procurement-related issues.
• Apply Agile Techniques: Adopt and apply agile techniques to improve procurement processes.

High School Diploma/GED

• Exposure to Procurement Operations: Experience working with procurement activities, including business operations, policies and practices, global compliance, client services, bid management, supplier contract development, and negotiation.
• Analytic
  
  Skills:
  
  Exposure to utilizing cognitive tools, analyzing large data sets, and applying root cause analysis and change management techniques to drive business value and improve procurement processes.
• Client Service Delivery: Experience working with clients to understand and satisfy their needs, providing exceptional client services and promoting collaboration and alignment with procurement teams.
• Process Improvement: Exposure to applying agile techniques to improve procurement processes and drive business success.
• Business Operations Knowledge: Experience working with business operations, including understanding organizational goals and aligning procurement activities to support strategic supply issues.

• Procurement Analytics Tools: Exposure to utilizing cognitive tools and analyzing large data sets to drive business value and improve procurement processes.
• Agile Methodologies: Exposure to applying agile techniques to improve procurement processes and drive business success.
• Contract Development: Experience working with supplier contract development and negotiation in support of complex services engagements.

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM’s financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk.

Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

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