Associate AI & Data Project Manager (September 2026 - Calgary)

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering, Operations, Data Science

Calgary, AB, Canada

Posted on Jul 4, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow 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.


In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow 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 Project Manager, you will support the planning, coordination, and delivery of projects focused on AI & Data solutions and Enterprise Packaged Solutions. Working alongside experienced project managers, technical teams, and client stakeholders, you will help track project activities, manage communications, support financial and administrative processes, and contribute to successful project execution. This is an entry-level opportunity for recent graduates who bring strong organizational skills, attention to detail, professionalism, and a willingness to learn in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Support Project Planning and Coordination: Assist with project planning, scheduling, status tracking, and coordination of day-to-day project activities across AI & Data and Enterprise Packaged Solution engagements.
  • Manage Project Communications: Help prepare project communications, meeting materials, status reports, action logs, and stakeholder updates to ensure clear and timely information sharing.
  • Support Financial Management Activities: Assist with project financial tracking, budget monitoring, forecasting support, time and expense coordination, and other project administration activities.
  • Track Risks, Issues, and Actions: Help maintain project logs for risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and action items, and support follow-up to drive resolution.
  • Facilitate Team Organization: Support meeting scheduling, agenda preparation, documentation, and coordination across cross-functional teams and client stakeholders.
  • Contribute to Delivery Excellence: Help ensure project processes, documentation, and governance activities are completed accurately and on time.
  • Use AI Tools for Productivity: Apply AI-assisted tools to improve productivity in areas such as note summarization, documentation drafting, task tracking, knowledge retrieval, and workflow support, while following responsible use practices.
  • Learn Project Delivery Methods: Build knowledge of project delivery approaches, tools, and best practices used across consulting, AI & Data, and enterprise technology projects.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Graduated within the last 24 months (MBA not accepted)
  • Agentic and Generative AI: Experience using Generative AI and agentic AI tools to support project management, documentation, workflow automation, meeting summaries, knowledge retrieval, and personal productivity. Ability to apply these tools responsibly with appropriate attention to accuracy, validation of outputs, data privacy, security, and human oversight.
  • Financial Management Fundamentals: Understanding of project financial concepts such as budgeting, tracking actuals, forecasting support, time reporting, resource coordination, and cost awareness.
  • Organization and Attention to Detail: Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks, maintain accurate records, follow through on action items, and support structured project execution.
  • Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear updates, document discussions, and communicate professionally with team members, stakeholders, and clients. Demonstrates confidence in presenting information, asking questions, and engaging stakeholders.
  • Project Coordination Fundamentals: Understanding of basic project management concepts such as scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables, risk tracking, issue management, stakeholder management, and status reporting.
  • Collaboration and Teamwork: Ability to work effectively in cross-functional team environments and support collaboration between business, technical, and client stakeholders.
  • Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: Strong analytical ability, sound judgment, and resourcefulness when working through project challenges and changing priorities.
  • Learning Agility: Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to learn project delivery methods, enterprise technologies, AI & Data concepts, and consulting practices.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Business aptitude and interest in understanding how technology projects support operational and strategic business goals.
  • Exposure to project planning, scheduling, or coordination activities through internships, academic projects, campus leadership, or early work experience.
  • Familiarity with project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, or similar collaboration tools.
  • Exposure to AI & Data projects, enterprise software implementations, or packaged solution delivery through coursework, internships, or projects.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, JavaScript/Node.js, or ABAP (for SAP BTP extensions), along with development and delivery tool awareness, including basic knowledge of or hands-on experience with tools such as Microsoft Office Suite, JIRA, DevOps tools, or Adobe
  • Experience with SAP Fiori/UI5 development and/or backend service development on SAP BTP
  • Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Predictive, or Hybrid project delivery approaches
  • Experience preparing presentations, reports, dashboards, or executive-ready materials.
  • Demonstrated leadership through student organizations, team projects, volunteer activities, or part-time work.

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 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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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