Director Analyst – Networking; Remote: Europe

About the role

About the role: Gartner analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have insight and provide advice to a broad range of world-leading organizations. A Senior Director possesses a keen eye for identifying gaps, problems and solutions within the market they serve, and help clients make better decisions relative to their highest business priorities. As an analyst, you will bring Gartner's best practices, and tools to life across a broad range of world class clients.

Your focus will be on both the pragmatic content that assists a client in solving today’s problems, and provocative insight that challenges a client’s assumptions on how the future will play out.

Key areas of coverage will be on emerging technologies that allow Infrastructure & Operations organizations to innovate using new technologies and lay the foundation for continued success and growth. Knowledge (and intellectual curiosity) in areas such as SD-WAN, SASE, cloud connectivity and data center networking are important. You will apply your broad knowledge of technologies, vendors, processes, and best practices to provide actionable insights to our clients.

What you will do:

• Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged “must-have” insights.

• 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 client’s 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

What you will need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience;
  Graduate degree preferred

• 12+ years of experience in related field or industry with a focus on the design and implementation of data networks with forward lean end-user organizations

• Ability to formulate and articulate technology and business adoption scenarios that help senior IT leaders articulate the opportunities, risk, and approaches for a range of existing and emerging network technologies.

• Deep expertise in wide area networking connectivity and supporting infrastructure and managed services, network architecture and design, networking security principles and strong level of familiarity with data center networking.

• Strong working knowledge of emerging models including SASE and NaaS, and additional expertise in design and optimization of cloud connectivity.

• Working knowledge of security principles specific to networking including Zero-Trust.

• Knowledge of the major service provider offerings of both US-based and international service providers, along with emerging vendors and technologies.

• Broad understanding of connectivity drivers including the enterprise application layer, the migration to cloud and…