Description:
Gartner is recruiting for a candidate with deep experience in the usage and development of technologies employed by life science organizations to address their most important strategic objectives. The successful candidate will develop a leading industry voice on how IT enables value in life sciences, with a focus on strategy, IT maturity, what technologies, especially AI, should be considered for those initiatives to best meet the needs of the life science enterprise.
The Senior Director will advise Gartner’s life science client CIOs and IT leaders on a wide variety of topics including technology strategy, enterprise and business process applications, data integration, and emerging innovations in life science technologies. The individual must also be knowledgeable about major technologies and processes common to life science organizations, emerging issues, and future needs. The ideal candidate will have experience as an enterprise IT leader (e.g., CIO, Director of IT, Enterprise Architect) digital business leader or strategy executive of a life science organization or product leader of a vendor selling to life sciences. Familiarity with ERP systems, AI, relational databases (such as SAP Hana), cloud, and/or medical device preferred.
Responsibilities:
- Develop new research that challenges conventional wisdom about the problems client are solving by offering compelling, simplified approaches that accelerate each client’s ability to take action
- Identify the root cause of complex client problems, use expert-level judgment to build hypotheses and find solutions
- Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing defendable research positions across a team of analysts
- Write innovative, thought provoking, documents
- Bring provocative, independent insights to leaders that help them accelerate their progress
- Predict how specific markets are developing and help clients in their vendor selection process
- Help product leaders understand end user needs and seize industry trends
- Engage and respond to client inquiries in on-site and virtual meetings, strategic off-sites, and Gartner events
- Create and deliver high value presentations and other material onstage at Gartner conferences and symposiums, as well as small and large groups of clients and/or prospects
- Support Sales: Provide sales support serving as voice of the market to help research 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 research peer review
- Build credibility as an industry leader to represent Gartner research, methodology and strategy
- Lead or participate in research community meetings to discuss research issues and collaborate effectively with peers
- Identity amendments to existing research processes, or creates new processes, that help the team and Gartner’s Research and Advisory group better serve clients or serve a new type of client
- Support more junior team members’ development through mentorship and coaching
- Inspire clients to more frequently experience the value of Gartner research
- Demonstrate sophisticated skill at analysis by seeking out and piecing together fragments of information, extrapolating, building and applying conceptual models, recognizing patterns and drawing conclusions from partial data.
- Arrange and attend vendor briefings, vendor events, client meetings or exhibitions as required to further Gartner’s research position.
- Coverage could include but is not limited to life science industry dynamics and technology trends, competitive frameworks, AI, ERP, relational databases and related life science enterprise strategies and technologies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree preferred
- 12+ years of relevant field or industry experience
- Great team player with intrinsic motivation to collaborate with peers to write provocative and pragmatic research notes
- Demonstrated executive presence; can immediately establish credibility with executives and additional stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills; ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high quality material
- Demonstrated excellence in research and writing ability
- Strong written and verbal interaction, analytical and presentation skills; ability to engage clients and respond effectively to questions
- Proficient in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending conclusions to client challenges
- Strong business and financial acumen
- Deep knowledge of the global and competitive landscape within subject area as well as the interplay in that market
- Learning agility and adept at navigating highly matrixed environments
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 25%