Gartner - Senior Principal - Research

What makes Gartner Research & Advisory a GREAT fit for you? 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, while driving partnerships with global organizations to make the right decisions on their key initiatives. Through constant learning, discovery and collaboration, you'll not only help clients accomplish their mission-critical priorities, but also grow your career and the scope of your impact across industries. Our culture demands dedication- and rewards it with opportunity. If you're always looking for what's next in business and technology, Gartner is looking for you.

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 Senior Principal to join our global Peer and Practitioner Research team. As a Senior Principal, you will be responsible for managing a team of researchers who are investigating, analyzing and writing on critical issues facing senior executives in leading global corporations.

This will include a wide range of written deliverables that require (but not limited to) qualitative research methods - interview CXOs 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. You will need to intellectually curious and have the desire to quickly develop - generalist- knowledge. This 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.

- Manage a research team working on Gartner's proprietary research process including hypothesis generation, primary and secondary research, and root cause analysis to identify best-in-class solutions.

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

- Manage execution of a project plan, including research topics, webinars, diagnostics, and other deliverables to address critical executive needs.

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

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 particular attention to precision of language and ability to organize information logically.

- Proven competence for meeting deadlines, multi-tasking and managing work under ambiguity/uncertainty (e.g., changing factors, limited information)

- Aspiration to constantly learn and improve.

Preferred experience :

- Master's (Sociology, History, Philosophy, Literature, MBA etc.) or PhD degrees

- 7+ years of research and/or management consulting experience with 2+ years of experience managing research projects end-to-end

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

What we offer :

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

- Competitive base salary

- Great on the job learning

- A great work culture

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