Manager, Data Analytics - Digital Markets (Irving)

Manager, Data Analytics - Digital Markets (Irving)

About Gartner Digital Markets:
 

Gartner Digital Markets is a business unit within Gartner. Our mission is to empower organizations to accelerate growth by helping them embrace the right technology and services.

Gartner Digital Markets is the world’s largest platform for finding software and services. With more than 100 million annual visitors across four buyer destinations—Capterra, GetApp, Software Advice, and UpCity—and 70 localized sites, Gartner Digital Markets helps software and service providers build their brand, capture demand, and understand their market. As the only destination for software and services driven by independent, objective research and verified customer reviews, we help connect providers with in-market buyers to fuel growth across the full funnel.

For candidates interested in taking their next career step, Gartner Digital Markets offers the best of two worlds—the stability and resources of a large, established organization combined with the fast pace and excitement of working for a dynamic growth business. Our team is on the front lines of innovation in an industry that is always transforming, providing an incredible opportunity for you to grow and learn throughout your career.

What we’re looking for: 

As part of the central analytics organization, you will have the opportunity to help measure GDM financial performance and ensure GDM is hitting net and gross revenue targets. You will support the annual planning process and will own the rolling forecast process. You will build and maintain forecast models that track daily performance to target. You will work with the executive team as well as the Marketing team to measure trends impacting business performance and help ensure targets are achievable. You will work with Finance to ensure business performance tracking is compatible with Gartner reporting requirements. You will support the monthly and quarterly performance review process and will serve as lead analyst to explain business performance to executive stakeholders. You will track daily performance and highlight key trends impacting the business. You will help identify opportunities to achieve financial targets. You will partner with the Analytics Operations team to ensure performance tracking reports provide the optimal view of business performance, and issues impacting performance measurement are identified and resolved. 

Why you’ll want to come to work:

• Use data and analytics to support Gartner Digital Market’s mission to be the leading resource for software buyers and sellers

• Consolidate all business planning and forecasting work as the planning and forecast lead for GDM 

• Build and maintain performance forecast models using time series forecasting packages

• Build and maintain key files to support the annual planning and rolling forecasting process including actuals for each forecasted view of the business

• Analyze drivers of business performance and identify key variables to include in forecast models

• Help analyze the impact of major strategic initiatives and assess impact to forecast accuracy

• Partner with site general managers, marketing channel owners, product managers and other groups in order to collect and synthesize information needed to improve forecast accuracy

• Identify gaps in top-down and bottoms-up expectations for the business, and work with stakeholders to understand gaps and identify options to reconcile expectations of business performance

• Analyze underlying drivers of business performance trends and recommend action to address trends

• Create forecasts using different scenarios to evaluate conditional risk to achieving performance goals

• Track leading indicators of business performance to reduce time to respond to emerging trends 

• Partner with executive team to help assess and communicate business unit performance

• Create reports, slides, charts and other visual material to communicate business performance and support the business performance review process

• Produce data files that support downstream reporting use cases for GDM and Gartner stakeholders

• Work with reporting and dashboard owners to improve the ability for reporting customers to understand business performance vs. targets 

• Produce ad hoc and project-based analysis as necessary help understand bus