Sr Director, Team Manager, CIO Project Management

About the role:
As the Sr Director, Team Manager within the CIO Priority Orchestration & Agile Response team, you will lead a team of project managers who will be responsible for managing practice-wide projects and strategic initiatives that support our practice’s ability to be indispensable to CIO & AI Leader clients. This is a player/coach role with analyst responsibilities creating content and taking inquiries related to key CIO priorities. Team Management (60%), IC responsibilities (40%).

What you will do: 

• Team leadership: Lead a team of project managers supporting CIO & AI Leader practice-wide projects such as coordinated content development efforts like Eye on Innovation, content innovation efforts such as CIO connected content (e.g., decision support maps, playbook formats, pulse checks, etc) and content development improvements (such as creation/maintenance of GenAI toolsets and practice wide client outreach campaigns). Provide coaching and feedback, professional and career development, and recruitment, as necessary. Conduct a skill inventory, create development plans, and connect team members with learning opportunities. 
• Content Development and Client Interactions: Identify and pursue content opportunities related to key CIO priorities with a preference for a topical focus on strategic portfolio management, enterprise transformation and change. Meet with CIO-End User clients to discuss Gartner insights related to their mission critical priorities. 
• Portfolio and project management: Establish portfolio management capabilities, project management practices, and a cross-practice prioritization model for the CIO & AI Leader practice. Develop tracking and reporting mechanisms including project plans, status, risks, interdependencies, and benefits. 
• Change leadership: Identify change stakeholders, assess change impact and readiness, develop change strategies, engage stakeholders and/or representatives, and overseeing the creation  and maintenance  of change and communication plans for all CIO Priority Orchestration & Agile Response projects (content creation across cohorts, collaboration on innovative content, developing cross-practice skill needs e.g. interviewing/tools) to operationalize the cohort model, both for the CIO group (such as cross-practice education to help boost position impact) and across Gartner (such as improving coordination with CPP/Content Architecture teams). These initiatives will be led either by the VP Program Mgmt or their team  based on complexity and availability.
• Process development & improvement: Uncover pain points and identify process improvements and/or develop new processes that support the CIO & AI Leader practice to better serve our clients’ critical priorities. Quantify and qualify improvement benefits to inform CIO & AI Leader business value stories.

What you will need: 

• 15+ years of demonstrated experience in leading delivery teams in support of complex business functions. 
• 5+ years of analyst-like experience: client-facing content development and client interaction experience. 
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree preferred. 
• Experience managing, developing, and growing a high-performing team (including project managers) in a large enterprise organization. 
• Ability to diagnose the root cause of performance to maximize team outcomes. 
• Ability to manage time and meet deadlines by prioritizing demands and coordinating multiple engagements. 
• Ability to work across multiple time zones. 

Who You Are:

• Proven team manager who excels in a fast-paced environment, balances multiple priorities, and inspires teams to achieve business objectives. 
• Highly collaborative leader who leads by example, rolls up their sleeves, and operates with a no-limits mindset. 
• Talent developer who acts as a talent magnet and has experience recruiting, coaching, and supporting talent to successfully grow in their careers.  
• Change leader with a track record of successfully driving organizational, process and technical change in global, matrixed organizations. 
• Analytical thinker with the ability to process information and make actionable recommendations or pivot as necessary. 
• Disciplined prioritizer who manages the team’s time effectively, focusing on the most critical activities.  
• Effective collaborator who proactively engages across the CIO & AI Leaders organization and with key internal partners to drive client and business outcomes.  
• Value delivery driver who thinks creatively about how CIO & AI Leaders can achieve the highest levels of effectiveness, service and business outcomes.  
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Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.

It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.

What do we offer?

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 136,000 USD - 189,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

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