Internship – Public sector consultant

Introduction

At IBM, we know that transformation drives change, and it is in our DNA to continuously transform. Our Business Transformation Consultants help drive large scale change that spans IBM business units and geographies. As a part of this team, you will have the unique opportunity to be a part of driving IBM’s ongoing transformation as a company that continuously innovates and leads the market.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As part of the development of our consultancy services to the public sector, you will be able to develop the following skills:

• Carrying out market and sector intelligence on specific business sectors
• Preparing meetings with customers/partners/conferences
• Contributing to working groups on building and monitoring the implementation of our business development strategy
• Contributing to responses to calls for tender and sales campaigns
• Developing points of view on changes in the public sector in relation the Group’s strategic offerings and technologies.

As part of customer projects:

• Carrying out documentary and data analyses
• Preparing meetings or interviews
• Contributing to the formalisation of deliverables (notes, summaries, minutes of meetings or interviews, presentations)
• Providing sectoral expertise to complement the project’s technical teams
• PMO-type project management activities (monitoring deadlines, project indicators, reporting, data management, etc.).

Depending on the projects in progress, you will be asked to contribute to consultancy activities for technological and business transformation, from scoping through project management to the implementation of organisational and/or technological solutions.

You will learn how to :

• Analyse a complex customer problem with a view to designing a relevant, value-driven approach, benefiting from our know-how and technological assets and interactions with the IBM network of expertise
• Work as part of a team on concrete and ambitious transformation projects for the public sector
• Interacting with and preparing materials for discussions with General Management and specialist departments.

What we offer:

• A tailor-made training plan from the moment you join: you will be supervised by recognised experts and will benefit from personalised tutoring to accelerate your skills development.
• Ongoing training in the latest technologies and consulting methods, so that you are always at the cutting edge of innovation.
• An international environment where you’ll be at the heart of innovative, high-impact projects.
• Real career opportunities: this internship can open the door to a job with rapid development prospects. You’ll be able to build your career in a stimulating, fast-growing environment.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Master’s 2 student (business school / Grande Ecole programme, political science university) specialising in digital transformation and public affairs.
• Bilingual French/English (written and spoken), (minimum level C1)
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint) and agile methods, design thinking.
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of generative artificial intelligence and an interest in emerging technologies.
• An inquisitive, proactive and collaborative mind, ready to take on complex challenges and work as part of a team.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 6-month internship in Paris, with the possibility of travel in France and Europe.
• End-of-studies internship with internship agreement
• Start date: throughout 2025.

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