Gartner - Principal - Research - Legal & Compliance

Principal, Legal & Compliance

About this role :

- Are you intellectually curious and motivated by ideas ? Do you want to create research products that are widely used by executive leaders worldwide ?

- Gartner is searching for an India-based Principal to join our global Peer and Practitioner Research team. This opportunity gives researchers an exposure to a range of Legal & Compliance leadership-level strategic and management topics.

- The Principal will be responsible for investigating, analyzing and writing on critical issues facing senior legal & compliance executives in leading global corporations.

- This individual will work on a wide range written deliverables that require (but not limited to) qualitative research methods - interview legal & compliance leaders at leading global corporations, conduct wide-ranging secondary literature searches, and synthesize information to elicit key insights - to help organizations transform the way they operate.

- The Principal must be intellectually curious and have the desire to quickly develop - generalist- knowledge. The role is a key feeder to careers reaching the highest levels of the firm.

What you will do :

- Learn and execute Gartner's proven methodology for conducting world-class research that helps identify best practice solutions to many of today's biggest business challenges.

- Analyze and interpret business problems using root cause analysis, hypothesis generation, and other qualitative methods.

- Conduct research by speaking with senior legal & compliance executives, academics, industry experts, etc. and conducting wide-ranging secondary literature searches

- Independently create and/or manage key research deliverables, including but not limited to: research studies, white papers, how-to-guides, case studies, templates etc.

- Directly lead, develop, and motivate one or more researchers across the entire project life-cycle - from conception to completion and presentation.

- Closely collaborate with peers and senior stakeholders in India, the US, UK, and Australia as a part of global research initiatives.

What you will need :

- Master's (MBA, Sociology, History, Philosophy, Literature, etc.) or PhD degree in fields such as management, ethics, compliance, history, sociology etc.

- 5-7 years of research and/or management consulting experience

- Demonstrated ability to teach and relay ideas, engage clients and work in global teams

Who you are :

- We are looking for creative, analytically strong, articulate and self-motivated individuals who would like to develop a strong knowledge of the terrain along with building consultative problem-solving skills.

- Unlike management consulting, investment banking, or law, our strategic research positions do not depend on a special appetite or aptitude for sales or business development.

- Our search for talent is centered, without exception, on the ability to run deep on a logical, philosophical, or economic problem and resurface with rigorous original insight.

Some of the shared characteristics of our successful hires include :

- Strong appetite to dive deep into a given content terrain to develop expertise and distill key findings.

- Ability to gather, analyze, restructure, identify and create original insights from qualitative and/or quantitative data.

- Strong oral and written communication skills, with attention to precision of language and ability to organize information logically.

- Proven competence for meeting deadlines, multi-tasking and managing work under ambiguity.

- Aspiration to constantly learn and improve.

What we offer :

- In addition to an outstanding work environment with rapid advancement potential, Gartner research team enjoys exceptional benefits

- Competitive base salary

- Great on job learning

- A great work culture