(USA-TX-Dallas) Innovation Hub Leader
**Introduction**
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.
**Your Role and Responsibilities**
As an Agile Team Leader in the Invest-to-Win team, you will be first feet on the ground at IBM’s largest and most influential Consumer Retail clients, building out teams and constructing innovative solutions. You have the cross-functional leadership skills to bring IBM’s core business units together to solve creative problems for our clients. You are an experienced yet versatile leader who demonstrates a balance of technical acumen, business strategy, and client relationship management; and you possess a talent for identifying opportunities quickly within ambiguous challenges.
1. Using agile methodology and leading scrums
2. Developing MVPs and showing measurable impact in adoption and/or revenue
3. Establishing initial client engagements and identifying key opportunities to expand the account (headcount and/or revenue)
4. Leading cross-functional teams to deliver focused solutions
5. Allocating budget and deploying resources efficiently and effectively
6. Leveraging a commercial mindset in introducing creative product solutions and pricing models
7. Rolling up the sleeves to work on tactical delivery while developing a strategic vision in a fast-paced environment
8. Demonstrating multi-disciplinary skillsets in technical delivery, creative design, and business strategy
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
+ 3+ years in a project leadership role
+ 5+ years of technology services experience
+ 3+ years experience in consultative sales
+ 3+ years in direct client interfacing roles with business management responsibilities
**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
+ Degree in Business, Finance, or Information Sciences
**About Business Unit**
IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.
**Your Life @ IBM**
What matters to you when you’re looking for your next career challenge?
Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities – where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust – where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.
Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.
**About IBM**
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.
**Location Statement**
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
**Being You @ IBM**
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.