Senior Quant Specialist - FLORS (Finance, Legal, Operations, Risk, and Strategy) Practice

What makes Gartner Research a GREAT fit for you?

When you join Gartner Research, you'll be part of a leading-edge team that values expert insights, bold ideas, and intellectual courage. You'll deliver must-have research through compelling client interactions and contribute to our double-digit growth by providing our clients worldwide the unbiased insight they need to make the right decisions on their key initiatives. Through constant learning, discovery, and collaboration you'll not only help clients deliver on the promise of digital, you'll grow your career and the scope of your impact across industries. Our culture demands hard work - and rewards it with exceptional opportunity. If you- re always looking for what's next in technology, Gartner is looking for you.

About this role:

Gartner's FLORS (Finance, Legal, Operations, Risk and Strategy) Practice is currently seeking a Senior Quantitative Specialist for its Quantitative Insight team. The team leverages proprietary data and frameworks to offer original, actionable solutions to key business problems facing senior executives across industries.

Candidate Attributes:

- We are seeking motivated candidates who are tech/data savvy, interested in product development and curious about how the FLORS functions are transforming due to a constantly changing business environment.

- This opportunity gives researchers an exposure to the full range of leadership-level strategic and management topics. To that end, 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.

What you- ll do:

- The Senior Quantitative Specialist is primarily responsible for designing client facing products and working with a developer to convert those designs into products. The researcher is also responsible for developing, supporting, and executing research projects that are fueled by intensive data collection, in-depth research and quantitative analysis, and reporting through customized visuals.

Overall responsibilities:

- Partnering with internal stakeholders to understand client needs, identify use cases and design new/update existing client facing products

- Day to day project mgmt. of a developer

- Monitoring utilization of existing products

- Keeping stakeholders updated on progress

- Communicating and presenting analytical insights and ideas to internal stakeholders

- Aggregating and building data assets from multiple sources

- Analyzing large, complex, disparate data sets to identify actionable insights for senior executives

- Assisting with large-scale data collection efforts through surveys

- Building benchmark and other standardized data reports for clients with insightful graphics

- Uphold quality standards in all deliverables through:

- Testing products to ensure they are complete and error free

- Creation of scalable and standard processes for the use of various data assets.

- Updating and maintaining data assets to ensure easy access to accurate and timely data

- Identifying external data sources that can be leveraged in research and advisory work and creative methods to make them accessible

- Collaborating with researchers and analysts to identify areas where data/quantitative analysis can play a role in strengthening Gartner's research

- Strengthening existing processes to improve efficiency and accuracy

- Partner with research and other teams to deliver assigned projects through:

- Leadership in conveying the goals and needs of a project to the other partnering teams (eg: IT, Graphics)

- Creation and management of the project plan to deliver the project in the stated time frames and to the stated level of quality;

- Consistent engagement with the research partner during product design and addresses routine workflow issues;

- Quality check of outputs before sharing with research and advisory team and addressing any related risks or concerns as they are identified;

- Creation of scalable outputs to be shared across the Gartner research and advisory community.

What you'll need:

- Masters or Ph.D. in disciplines with a strong quantitative component, including Science, Mathematics/Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Econometrics

- 3-5 years of total experience, with expertise in data analysis, quantitative research, analytics or benchmarking, product development

- Ability and desire to work extensively in data analysis and visualization

- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Power Point

- Proficiency with scripting languages such as R, Python.

- Experience of working on projects which involved large data sets

- Exceptional record of academic achievements

- Original/creative thinking and superior problem-solving abilities

- Strong communication skills - both written and verbal

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team

- Detail-oriented and strong commitment to high-quality results to serve the needs of clients and internal partners

- Self-motivated/self-starter approach to projects

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

- Inordinate work-life balance

About Gartner:

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. We deliver the technology-related insight necessary for our clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms to technology investors, we are the valuable partner to clients in more than 10,000 distinct enterprises worldwide. Through the resources of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting, and Gartner Events, we work with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, and has 8,300 associates, including over 1,800 research analysts and consultants, and clients in more than 90 countries.

For more information, email info@gartner.com or visit www.gartner.com

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