Director Analyst-Direct Procurement Technology; Remote

About the role

Director Analyst-Direct Spend Procurement Technology

Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have insights, market predictions and best practices for a broad range of world-leading organizations. A Director serves as a leader within Gartner's Business and Technology Insights (BTI) group. Utilizing research and analytical skills, a Director plays a significant role in producing pragmatic and provocative insights which Gartner clients consume and apply to propel their business toward key objectives.

They are a trusted source of advice for clients, reinforcing Gartner's value every day by engaging them via in-person meetings, virtual meetings, sales support visits and Gartner conferences to discuss complex client challenges and offer appropriate recommendations.

Topics that would be expected to be covered include:

• Technologies impactful to direct procurement: source-to-pay (S2P) suites, procure-to-pay suites (P2P), supplier risk management, multitier visibility, supplier management, vendor managed inventory (VMI), supplier collaboration, commodity risk trading platforms, and should-cost modeling.

• How to best select procurement technology for direct spend

• How to develop a successful procurement technology vision, strategy, and digital roadmap

• How to transform procurement digital capabilities

• Current state capabilities of AI in direct procurement, use cases for AI in direct procurement and AI's impact on the future of direct procurement

• Current state capabilities of AI in supplier risk management, use cases for AI in supplier risk and AI's impact on the future of supplier risk management

• How to plan for and facilitate the implementation of direct procurement and supplier risk management technology in the context of a broader supply chain technology strategy

• How to exact ROI from procurement technology investments, including AI

What you will do

• Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged "must-have insights" content

• 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 interaction.

Qualifications

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

• 10+ years of working with procurement technologies associated with delivering successful procurement transformation for Direct Spend categories is required.

• Experience leading strategic transformation projects that focus on digital enablement for direct materials procurement is required.

• Strong familiarity with solutions that support direct materials…