at Gartner, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Who we are
Gartner's Consulting business is anextensionof 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. 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 but not limited to:
Cloud Strategy
Digital Acceleration and Transformation
Enterprise Enablement
Big Data and Analytics
Applications Rationalization
Sourcing and Ecosystem Optimization
Contract and Cost Optimization
Security and Risk Management
What you'll do
Our Directors are responsible for high-level project delivery and oversight along with client relationship management. You will manage teams and 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. This position is for a Director focused on cloud and Infrastructure areas supporting Gartner Consulting businesses and clients in North America.
More specifically, you will be:
Leading project teams and project/engagement planning and management for complex full-lifecycle global cloud and infrastructure, being responsible for:
Managing complex engagements, potentially simultaneously, including timeline, budget and people
Drive delivery of high-quality deliverables, in accordance with client expectations and predetermined timelines and budgets
Developing verbal and written project communications to client project teams and senior executives
Monitoring and addressing project risk mitigation activities to ensure risks are satisfactorily addressed
Planning and facilitating critical meetings with the client's project team(s) as needed
Ensuring client receives status updates and identified problems are solved
Monitoring clients' expectations and partnering with senior team members to revise project scope when appropriate
Anticipating and addressing customer service requirements
Provide upward feedback to more senior team members, when relevant
Providing thought leadership, delivery excellence and people leadership within one's area of expertise by performing the following activities:
Contributing expertise/insight to the delivery of solutions, to support NA practice leaders with practice strategy and thought leadership
Keeping current on technologies/trends in one's area of expertise domain
Proactively sharing knowledge within and outside of the engagement setting creating broader impact on India consulting business (beyond immediate client delivery responsibilities)
Harvest intellectual capital from own engagements and share with industry/ practice experts
Perform QA of critical project deliverables to ensure quality and timeliness of India consulting associate deliverables to regional project teams
Contributing to business-building activities, including:
Partnering with subject matter experts and managing partners to develop long-term client relationships during and outside of an engagement leading to repeat/new business opportunities
Contributing to the (1) development of proposals; (2) scoping and qualifying opportunities and (3) assisting with identifying optimal client solutions by communicating the Gartner value... For full info follow application link.
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