Master@IBM Project Management and Delivery Excellence (f/m/x)

IBM
IBM

Administration

Cologne, Germany

EUR 1,950-2,818 / month

Posted on Jul 16, 2026
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Introduction

What You Can Expect from Master@IBM:

✅ Financial independence from day one – with an attractive salary

1st year: €1,950 gross/month

2nd year: €2,544 gross/month

3rd year: €2,818 gross/month

✅ An employment contract with a 38-hour workweek, including 10 hours dedicated to university studies!

✅Master studies at recommended German university (of your choice) offering part-time studies (like ESB Reutlingen, HECTOR School/KIT, FOM and others)

✅ Full coverage of tuition and semester fees, plus travel expenses to your university

✅ State-of-the-art equipment, such as a MacBook, iPhone & more

✅ Personalized development through hands-on training, job shadowing, and career coaching

✅ Master’s thesis in collaboration with your department, ensuring a seamless link between theory and practice

✅ A strong prospect of full-time employment after graduation and promising career opportunities at IBM

Apply now and start your future with Master@IBM! 🚀

We look forward to receiving your application!

Your role and responsibilities

Do you love discovering the causes of problems, finding solutions and are you creative and curious? Are you passionate and authentic, do you want to make a difference and combine your studies and career? Then join the IBM Technology Expert Labs team! We are building IBM software solutions for our customers, bring them into production and thus creating added value for our customers. We build innovative solutions for our customers using the latest IBM technologies such as our AI platform WatsonX or IBM Concert as our technology automation platform.

During the entire orientation phase, you will be supported by structured onboarding and a personal contact person. During your Master's degree, you will work on exciting national and international projects. At IBM, you are a fully-fledged member of one of our teams and can make valuable contacts early on in one of the largest global technology companies. Your tasks are:

· You will get a taste of project management - as a junior project manager, you will develop your skills for these management tasks, project organization, tools and methods for the successful completion of projects so that they are planned and managed correctly, risks are limited, opportunities are exploited and project goals are achieved in terms of quality, on time and within budget.

· You will get to know our project manager team with their skills, project assignments and the extensive range of tasks.

· You will get to know the preparation of customer proposals, which are set up as a separate project if they are large in scope (sales, offer specialists, delivery, legal, etc.: professional and technical description, clarification of requirements, time planning, effort estimation and project team organization, quality assurance, legal framework, interviews, demos and offer presentation).

· You will support the identification, development and implementation of AI-based use cases in the project management environment to increase efficiency, transparency and delivery excellence.

· You will support the preparation, facilitation and follow-up of project management meetings, governance boards and management reviews, ensuring transparency of project status, risks, actions and decisions.

· You will contribute to the execution, continuous improvement and further expansion of the Governance Checkpoint process, ensuring compliance with IBM project delivery standards and best practices.

· You will work on the creation and enhancement of project management methodologies, templates and governance concepts for strategic growth areas and emerging technologies such as Confluent, HashiCorp and Quantum Safe solutions.

· You will establish and maintain project management guidance, reusable assets and best practices to enable project managers to successfully deliver new technology offerings and customer engagements.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

What you bring

🎓 Successful completion of a (technical) university degree with a strong technical focus (e.g. computer science / IT security) or business informatics.

? Interest and initial experience in project management and requirements analysis

🛠 Ability to effectively present and demonstrate solutions and technologies and explain their value in a customer-oriented scenario

📢 Very good team orientation, social skills and ability to integrate

🗣 Very good written and spoken German and English skills (C1 level)

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience in successfully creating use cases and/or proof-of-concepts
  • Ability to structure and plan the work needed to implement business processes in software solutions using project management tools such as Monday, or Microsoft Project
  • Project related activities in your studies or as a working student

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

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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