Director, IT Strategy Consulting - Network Platforms

Why is Gartner Consulting an organization unlike any other? Our consultants are technology and business thought leaders for the 21st century. With the full scope of Gartner’s renowned IT research and capabilities to draw from, our consultants are committed to turning those insights into actionable solutions for our clients.

That’s where you come in. We’re committed to attracting the most creative, talented, and motivated associates to bring our world-class consultancy to the next level. When you join Gartner Consulting, you’ll lead the most innovative business and technology efforts in the marketplace today. You’ll work across Gartner to help CIOs and their teams execute their most strategic IT initiatives and achieve lasting results - all within the context of a rapidly evolving digital economy.

Who we are

Gartner’s Consulting business is an extension of Gartner’s industry-leading IT Research. From CIOs, to leaders in business and government, we help Gartner clients across enterprises translate insights into transformational actions and achieve their mission-critical priorities. Leveraging the breadth of Gartner’s resources, Consulting is growing rapidly, with unlimited potential to continue expanding our client base.

What we do

Technology Strategy Consulting and Change Management. We help the C-suite make the right decisions based on how technology can transform their businesses. In today’s world, a consulting firm that is “born digital”, (with the ability to directly leverage the full power of Gartner’s research and insights) has relevance to the most important strategic decisions any business will make.

We deliver value to clients in areas such as IT Strategy Consulting, Benchmarking, Analytics and Optimization. Typically, this helps Gartner’s clients to execute on their strategic priorities, across all sectors, including:

• Digital Acceleration and Transformation
• Organizational Change Management
• Enterprise Enablement
• Big Data and Analytics
• Applications Rationalization
• Cloud Strategy
• Sourcing and Ecosystem Optimization
• Contract and Cost Optimization
• Security and Risk Management

About this role:

Our Consulting Directors lead specialist teams of strategy consultants and advise clients at the highest strategic levels by enhancing new and existing IP, tools, and methodologies and inspiring team ownership and commitment to excellence. You will manage teams as an engagement manager, responsible for leading the team to completion, ensuring deliverables are turned in on time. You will also help to create the scope and design of the overall project. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. Our teams advise clients at the highest strategic level on both big-picture and tactical matters, focusing on how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes.

What you’ll do:

As Director you’d function as an engagement manager responsible for:

• Leading mid-size projects, budgeting, scoping and designing of project roadmaps, ensuring deliverables meet timelines and statement of work objectives.

• Leading high-quality project work-products/deliverables such as slide decks/presentations, technical or business documents such as manuals or requirements and quantitative models

• Is seen by client management-level staff and engagement team as a leader, having strong influence in management-level staff interactions and proactively managing client expectations of engagement scope while demonstrating Gartner value.

• Developing engagement hypothesis based on client context, identifying problem-solving techniques to address hypotheses, synthesizing results to develop conclusions and recommendations, leveraging engagement interactions to identify issues and opportunities for consulting assistance and training others on problem solving techniques.

• Providing feedback/coaching upward as well as downwards and laterally, and proactively engaging in formal and informal feedback/ coaching

• Leading client interviews & client workshops. Owning the quality of engagement work products / deliverables

• Metting utilization and sales targets

• Participating in hiring on new associates

• Mentoring junior associates

What you’ll need:

• MBA or other advanced degree preferred

• Experience within a well-regarded management consultancy in a project delivery and sales capacity

• Prior experience in a problem-solving capacity such as a solutio