Expert Partner, IT Strategy Consulting, Sourcing - Austin, United States - Gartner

Gartner

Verified Company

Austin, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Description:

About the role:

Our Sourcing & Spend Optimization team is the industry leader in vendor insights, market dynamics and price analytics to help clients optimize their services ecosystem.

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Sourcing & Ecosystem Strategy:Develop effective strategies for sourcing products/services to address mission-critical priorities across traditional IT and Digital Transformation
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Deal Advisory & Procurement: Rapid selection of the right service providers to meet client's desired outcomes and business needs while achieving optimized best pricing and terms.
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Partner & Vendor Management Help clients increase the organization's ability to assess, monitor and manage vendor performance, risks, relationships and contracts in pursuit of business goals, and optimize their vendor ecosystem ensuring clients are receiving commensurate value for money from their vendors.

The Role:

You will help our clients navigate complex IT Services and Business Process Outsourcing (ITO/BPO) lifecycle challenges.

We'll look to you to provide our clients with thought leadership on how innovative service delivery models and constructs can transform their entire organization - starting with key business issues they face.

This is a high growth, high visibility area with plenty of opportunities to enhance your skillset and build your career.

What you'll need:

Experience within a wellregarded management consultancy in a project delivery and sales capacity.
A drive to lead organizational growth by identifying new solutions and optimizing existing services.
Familiarity with operating in an outcomesbased structure, with practice and personal objectives
Deep practitioner knowledge of IT Services & Business Process outsourcing (ITO/BPO).
Experience with ITO/BPO services agreements, specifically with latest pricing and contracting constructs, infusing vendor innovation, and building flexible frameworks to ensure the agreement remains aligned with client objectives.
Prior experience in a problemsolving capacity such as a solution/technical architect or analyst preferred.
A consistent track record of leading people and building highperforming teams that leverage technology to drive the missioncritical priorities of commercial clients.
An ability to inspire and motivate professionals from both technical and nontechnical backgrounds towards a common goal.
An unwavering commitment to the success of your team, and willingness to provide constructive/ corrective action when needed.
Provide coaching to junior team members (both direct and indirect) to accelerate skill development.
Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and the creative development of solutions and strategies to solve client problems. Must adapt Gartner frameworks and methodologies to strike at the heart of a client's most pressing business challenges.
An ability to be handson and to manage multiple client priorities simultaneously.
MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
Comfortable selling to, influencing and building trustbased, valueadded relationships with senior executives.
Coachable and embracing of best practices and feedback as a means of continuous improvement.
A consistently high achiever marked by perseverance, humility, and a positive outlook in the face of challenges.
History in achieving / exceeding booking and revenue targets required.

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Who are we?
At Gartner, Inc

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IT), we deliver actionable, objective insight that drives smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization's mission-critical priorities.

We've grown exponentially since our founding in 1979 and we're proud to have over 19,500 associates globally that support over 15,000 client enterprises in more than 100 countries.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?
Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations. We believe that a diversity of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization. That's why we're recognized worldwide as a great place to work year after year.

We've been recognized by Fortune as one of the World's Most Admired Companies, named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index and a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by the Disability Equality Index.

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What we offer:

Our people are our most valuable asset, so we invest in them from Day 1.

When you join our team, you'll have access to a vast array of benefits to help you live your life well.

These resources are designed to support your physical, financial and emotional well-being. We encourage continued personal and professional growth through ongoing learning and development opportunities. Our employee resource groups, charity match and vo