Associate Data Scientist 2025

IBM • Full-time • London, London, United Kingdom • 2d ago

Start date: October 1st

In this role you will join IBM Consulting via our world class Associate Program for university hires. As an Associate at IBM Consulting you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients worldwide. Our clients' technical and business needs are constantly evolving. We're hiring inspired, talented individuals, who believe no problem is too big to solve.

We focus on your professional development through ongoing learning, mentorship, development of technical skills, and continuous personal growth, all grounded in a culture of coaching and career advancement. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning and who wants to unleash your potential, the IBM Consulting Associates Program is for you.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Application deadline

The closing date for applications is Friday, 1st August. Please note, however, that we may close this role earlier if the volume of applications reaches our capacity. We highly recommend submitting your application before this date to avoid the risk of missing out due to a sudden closure.

Assessment availability requirements

Assessment Centres are scheduled on Wednesday 20th August. Your availability for this dates is critical as this is mandatory and there will be no option to choose. Spots are limited, so please ensure your calendar is clear.

In the event you progress to the Final Interview stage, these will take place pn Thursday , 21st August. Again, your attendance is mandatory and there will be no flexibility in scheduling. You will be allocated a slot, so please make sure your schedule is free for this week.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Associate level Strategy and AI Consultant at IBM, you'll be working closely with clients and their customers to understand their pain points, bringing together IBM's unique capabilities across strategy, innovation, design, data analytics, AI (including GenerativeAI), and technology platforms to develop and deliver high-impact transformation programs. Leveraging a growth mindset, you're ready and willing to deliver business value, wherever needed.

In your role, you may be responsible for:

Researching the client organization and industry value chains
Drawing from primary and existing IBM research on evolving market trends and drive adoption of emerging technologies/capabilities underpinning GenerativeAI
Identifying issues, creating hypotheses, and executing analysis, to develop decision-ready recommendations for our clients

In your first two years, you’ll move between different projects, partnering with a variety of household names and making a difference to everyday life.

You will usually work as part of a small, diverse team either with other consultants, data scientists, designers, architects and users or as the modelling specialist within a team of industry experts

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Exceptional quantitative analysis skills and ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights, using a mix of traditional Predictive Analytics and GenerativeAI technologies to achieve the outcomes
Exceptional quantitative analysis skills and ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights
Powerful communication and storytelling skills, with an ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply
Ability to apply logic to solve ambiguous problems and deliver creative and well-structured solutions
A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view, with experience of using emerging technologies and techniques to understand how GenerativeAI works and how it can be appropriately and responsibly delivered to our clients
Strong interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work effectively in an intense team environment, able to build direct working relationships across all levels of the IBM and client teams
Predicted a 2:1 Bachelor's Degree or achieved in a STEM, Economics, Statistical degree or similar.

About Business Unit

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

Your life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Other relevant job details

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.