Quality Analyst (Six Sigma, GreenBelt : Must / BlackBelt : Preferred)

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 Quality Consultant, you will utilize in-depth business and industry knowledge and consulting skills to drive successful delivery of client commitments across the full lifecycle of complex integrated technology programs. You will provide advice and counsel to Deal Leaders and Project Executives and their external clients to ensure the viability, risk, project management, profitability, and customer satisfaction in the design and delivery of complex programs. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Provide Advice and Counsel: Offer guidance to teams on opportunity bid decisions, risk mitigation and containment, proposal quality, project health, and business management practices and procedures to influence the success of client commitments.
• Collaborate with Account Teams: Work directly with internal and external clients on initiatives based on regulatory requirements and guidelines, engaging key resources and providing valued input on solution approach, commercial terms, contract language, process navigation, and risk mitigations.
• Validate Proposed Solutions: Provide advice and counsel to teams to ensure proposed solutions are competitive, meet client requirements, and can be delivered within the committed price case.
• Identify and Assess Business Risks: Work with executive business leaders to identify, assess, manage, and optimize material business risks on client proposals and contracts.
• Exposure to Complex Program Delivery: Experience working with complex integrated technology programs, understanding the full lifecycle, and identifying key factors influencing successful delivery.
• Consulting Skills: Exposure to consulting skills, including providing advice and counsel to senior leaders and clients on opportunity bid decisions, risk mitigation, and business management practices.
• Industry Knowledge: Experience working with business and industry knowledge to drive successful delivery of client commitments, including understanding regulatory requirements and guidelines.
• Risk Management: Exposure to identifying, assessing, managing, and optimizing material business risks on client proposals and contracts.
• Solution Validation: Experience working with teams to validate proposed solutions, ensuring they are competitive, meet client requirements, and can be delivered within the committed price case.
• Complex Program Delivery: Exposure to working with complex integrated technology programs, understanding the full lifecycle, and identifying key factors influencing successful delivery.
• Industry-Specific Knowledge: Experience working with business and industry knowledge to drive successful delivery of client commitments, including understanding regulatory requirements and guidelines.
• Risk Mitigation Strategies: Exposure to identifying, assessing, managing, and optimizing material business risks on client proposals and contracts.