Sourcing & Spend Optimisation Director/ Strategy Consulting

at  Gartner

ABOUT THE ROLE:

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.
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 which 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 across Digital Growth & Transformation, Applications, Infrastructure & Security Modernization, and Sourcing & Spend Optimisation. Typically, this helps Gartner clients to execute on their strategic priorities, across all sectors.

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.

You will be primarily responsible for collaboration with Managing Partners (MPs) in sales and quality project delivery for our most strategic clients, providing subject matter expertise on complex full-lifecycle global sourcing engagements. You will be responsible for:

• Managing and advising on complex engagements
• Driving delivery of high-quality deliverables, in accordance with client expectations and predetermined timelines and budgets.
• Developing proposals to support sales, expansion and extension initiatives, collaborating with industries and other practices during the process.
• Monitoring clients’ expectations and partnering with senior team members to revise project scope when appropriate
• Provide feedback to team members during and post-engagement

You will also be responsible for providing thought leadership and delivery excellence within one’s area of expertise by performing the following activities:

• Contributing expertise and insight to the delivery of sourcing and spend optimisation solutions, to support EMEA Practice Capability Leads with practice strategy, thought leadership and innovation.
• Keeping current on technologies/trends in one’s area of expertise domain, and how these integrate with other practices to ensure integrated cross-practice client solutions.
• Proactively sharing knowledge within and outside of engagement setting
• Harvest intellectual capital from own engagements and share with industry/ practice experts
• Perform QA of critical project deliverables to ensure quality and timeliness of 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 proposition P
• Participating and actively supporting recruiting efforts to help the business grow

Performing Sourcing and Spend Optimisation practice management activities including:

• Support EMEA Managing Practice Leads with practice initiatives
• Proactive analysis and management of the Sourcing and Spend Optimisation practice pipeline, revenue and bookings for the UK & I region, including understanding trends, areas of growth and targets for increased focus/marketing/upskilling
• Leading and managing practice aligned associates including:
• Onboarding new practice associates
• Fostering and growing the regional practice community
• Coaching and developing junior associates to build industry/ practice specific knowledge
• Formal mentoring/ counseling responsibilities and annual performance evaluations
• Leading/ coordinating with region resource management teams to drive staffing of practice associates