Consulting Business Analyst

About this role:

The Consulting Business Analyst role is responsible for providing timely reporting and insight on the regional sales data and activities. Directly supporting a dedicated sales region and leadership team you will drive the development and implementation of our sales analytics and data strategy, whilst identifying trends and recommend solutions or processes to enable sales effectiveness. Our goal is to increase our analytical capabilities and drive actionable insight against our Sales business priorities. Be the protector of revenue of the business.

What you will do:

• Act as a strategic partner to our senior leaders whilst becoming an expert on the assigned regions performance, key metrics and top initiatives.
• Become a subject matter expert across our online tools, reports and dashboards. Providing training and support to ensure sales understanding and best practice adherence.
• Provide proactive, timely and actionable analytics, with a focus on improving sales productivity highlighting trends and other key indicators across the sales region.
• Manage month and quarter end processes ensuring all business is transacted and accurate.
• Communicate sales processes, operational updates and best practices within the region, play an active role in Ops reviews & team meetings presenting key findings.
• Enhance our capability to analyze and make sense of large data sets, presenting findings in a visually appealing manner that tells a data driven story to drive decision making.
• Design, Develop and support various daily, weekly, monthly reporting. Driving best practice sharing across the SBA team and each sales region.
• Support all revenue related activities both reactive as pro-active by working with field associates.

Specific tasks include:

• Ensure Regional ops reviews include the data required for the Geo lead to have a good view on the KPI’s for the regional leaders
• Provide content for our leaders for their management meetings (First Fridays, Town Hall Meetings, Partnership meetings,
• Track daily variances on cost and margin gaps.
• Project Management – high level support to ensure the revenue is protected. Key areas will be training COE associates and then ensuring all info is routed to RL’s.
• Providing data to leaders (RL, IL, PL, ML) by working with the analytics team or directing them to the correct dashboards in PowerBI

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree is required; Masters or advanced degree a plus
• 4+ years of working experience, preferable working in data analytics and visualization, business intelligence, or analytical consulting.
• Exceptional Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience and aptitude to work with different data sources with strong analytical skills and experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Outstanding organizational skills with the ability to multitask, prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and with little direction, a self-starter.

Who you are:

• Comfortable to partner, influence and build a trust-based, value-added relationships with senior sales leaders
• Able to solve complex problems and successfully manage ambiguity and unexpected change
• Teachable and embracing of best practices and feedback as a means of continuous improvement
• A proactive thinker who thrives on using data to tell a story with actionable insights.

Who are we? 

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work? 

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive an