Gartner - Specialist - Research

- What makes Gartner Research & Advisory a GREAT fit for you? When you join Gartner, 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 clients the unbiased insight and advice they need to make the right decisions every day. Through constant learning, discovery and collaboration, You'll help clients deliver on their mission-critical priorities, grow your career and increase your industry impact. 

- We value hard workers - and reward you with unlimited opportunity. If you're looking to explore what's next in technology and business, Gartner is looking for you. The Functional Accelerator CoE aims to hire a Research Analyst for conducting reach across management practices adopted by functional leaders, and is currently accepting applications. 

- The selected incumbent will be part of the research team addressing common, cutting-edge issues facing today's senior-most functional executives at leading, global corporations. The FA CoE will provide you with opportunities to converse with functional leaders, identify and creatively solve complex problems, design tools/frameworks to support functional leaders in critical processes, and help organizations transform the way they operate.

This role involves delivering high quality, implementation-oriented research products like research notes, how-to guides, frameworks, business case decks, process maps, and tools and templates among others.

Overall Job Purpose and Responsibilities:

- Build a deep understanding of management practices cutting across functional areas to create actionable and insightful content

- Articulate the underlying drivers to a problem or observation (i.e. apply reasoning beyond surface-level observations) using analytical tools such as root cause analysis.

- Develop insights that are practical and actionable (not academic) grounded in functional executives- workflows, and should help drive a change in behavior/ improve productivity.

- Conduct interviews with executives, academics, and industry experts in search of best practices, tools, and artifacts.

- Effectively translate insights into compelling implementation products that are easy-to-use, intuitive, and can be easily integrated into the member workflow.

- Drive product and process innovations to improve member experience and drive commercial impact.

- Present research findings via both written and verbal delivery to internal and external stakeholders.

- Deliver on a regular calendar of research deliverables

- Ignition Guides, tool, whitepapers, and blogs- around a specific management challenge faced by functional leaders

- This opportunity gives researchers an exposure to the full range of management practices adopted by all functional leaders. Topics covered in the past include - digital transformation, building a strong workforce, driving cost optimization among others. To that end, we are looking for creative, analytically strong, articulate and self-motivated individuals who would like to develop a strong knowledge of management practices along with building consultative problem-solving skills.

Education/Work Experience:

- Masters with 0-3 years of experience

- Strong analytical skills and ability to distill data into important, relevant ''so what's'' for senior managers

- Self-driven and can work with geographically spread teams

- Excellent project and time management skills.

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

- Demonstrated poise, maturity, and judgment in dealing with members

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

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

- Extensive knowledge of MS-Excel, MS-Word and MS-PowerPoint

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