Director Analyst - AI Strategy and Emerging Technologies for Supply Chain Leader

Gartner is a provider of business and technology insights that helps enterprise leaders address mission-critical priorities. The Director Analyst will develop thought leadership, research market trends, and provide actionable advice on AI strategy and emerging technologies for supply chain leaders. The role also involves advising executives, creating presentations and research content, supporting
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sales, mentoring analysts, and engaging with clients.
Responsibilities
• Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged must-have insights content
• Develop new insights and ideas through thought leadership and offer compelling, actionable approaches to client's needs and requests that accelerate the client's ability to act
• Develop in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of a clients barriers or overall needs and reframe thinking to drive strategy forward
• Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing Insights positions across a team of analysts
• Bring provocative, independent insights to Gartner leaders that can evolve the course of a research agenda
• Research, analyze and predict market trends and shifts to provide clients and vendors with actionable insights
• Provide clients and prospects with actionable advice aligned to their designated content area via virtual or face-to-face interactions
• Create and deliver high value presentation materials on and off stage for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings
• Support BTI and Sales: Provide sales support serving as voice of the market to help Insights teams create content and to drive engagement with clients to make progress against their critical priorities to grow their business
• Provide high quality and timely content peer review
• Build credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner insights, methodology and strategy
• Actively participate in innovation, ideation, and research discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the Insights community
• Identify research process improvements or develop new processes that help the team and BTI provide excellent service delivery
• Be a mentor and a coach by supporting more junior team members
• Be client-centric while actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions
Skills
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant field or industry experience
• Demonstrate experience communicating the value and ROI of AI investments to executives or senior leaders
• Experience/knowledge Of Translating AI Capabilities To Supply Chain Outcomes
• Experience/knowledge of assessing risk of AI in supply chain strategies
• Experience/knowledge of governing supply chain AI solutions
• Demonstrate success communicating the financial ROI and strategic value of AI investments to C-suite leaders
• Demonstrate willingness to explore emerging technologies
• Demonstrate executive presence; can immediately establish credibility with executives and additional stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills; ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high quality deliverables
• Demonstrate excellence in research and writing ability
• Strong written and verbal proficiency, analytical and presentation skills; ability to engage clients and respond effectively to questions
• Proficient in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending conclusions to client challenges
• Strong communication skills - able to explain complex concepts concisely and simply
• Subject matter expertise; comfortable presenting at large and small-scale speaking engagements
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Deep knowledge of the global and competitive landscape within subject area as well as the interplay in that market
• Ability to work independently, while also being intrinsically motivated to collaborate across teams and support the workflow of others, in a multicult

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