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Sr. Director Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations Leadership
When you join the world’s leading Research & Advisory company, you’ll be part of a team that values curiosity, expert insights, bold ideas, and intellectual courage. As a Gartner analyst, you’ll not only use your knowledge and experience to help clients solve complex issues and deliver on key initiatives, but you will also grow your career and the scope of your impact across industries.
About this role:
Gartner analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have research and provide advice to world-leading organizations. The Senior Director Analyst provides research and advisory to senior Infrastructure and IT Operations leaders globally. He/she possesses a keen eye for identifying gaps, problems, and solutions, and helps clients make better decisions relative to their highest business priorities.
What you will do:
- As a Senior Director in the Infrastructure & Operations Leadership practice, you will apply broad knowledge of current and emerging leadership trends gained firsthand as a head of IT Infrastructure and/or IT Operations.
- You will formulate and articulate technology and business adoption scenarios that help senior leaders embrace opportunities, risk and approaches for modernizing infrastructure, systems and processes.
- Help senior leaders deal with challenging political dynamics of key stakeholders to influence and achieve successful outcomes.
- Collaborate in cross-team settings with infrastructure colleagues as well as software engineering, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity and CIO strategy analysts.
- Demonstrate superior analytical skills, applying conceptual models, recognizing patterns while drawing and defending conclusions.
What you will need:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree preferred.
- 12+ years of relevant field or industry experience
- Recent experience as the senior most Infrastructure and/or IT Operations leader in a mid or large sized organization is required.
- Significant experience with people leadership topics such as designing future-fit organization structures, skills and talent management and driving culture change via transformational initiatives is required.
- Practical experience leading investments in cloud computing, delivering platforms and services to enable digital transformation while connecting Infrastructure and IT Operations work to business outcomes and overcoming technical debt.
- Proficient in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending conclusions to client challenges.
- Experience with a wide range of environments from traditional to more leading-edge across a variety of industries and geographies is preferred.
- Ability to work independently, while also being intrinsically motivated to collaborate across teams and support the workflow of others, in a multicultural global team.
- Demonstrate excellence in research and writing ability.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% (where applicable)
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Who are we?
At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), we deliver actionable, objective insight that drives smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities. We’ve grown exponentially since our founding in 1979 and we're proud to have over 19,500 associates globally that support over 15,000 client enterprises in more than 100 countries.
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What we offer:
Our people are our most valuable asset, so we invest in them from Day 1. When you join our team, you’ll have access to a vast array of benefits to help you live your life well. These resources are designed to support your physical, financial and emotional well-being. We encourage continued personal and professional growth through ongoing learning and development opportunities. Our employee resource groups, charity match and volunteer programs keep you connected to your internal Gartner community and causes that matter to you.
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