About Gartner IT:

Join a world-class team of skilled professionals who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients.  We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner.  Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team. 

About this role:

Our Technology Strategy and Operations team is seeking a Sr Director and dynamic leader to be the enterprise representative for IT Strategic Portfolio Management. You will drive product strategy and will implement SPM capabilities and processes to be utilized across the IT department. This pivotal role will interact with all levels across the department including Senior IT Leadership.

What you will do:

Responsible for the direction and leadership of the corporate portfolio management function. Oversee top-level view of strategic, major operational and capital strategies, initiatives, and investments. Lead a small team of system administrators managing the tool day-to-day.

Build capabilities on timing and anticipated value of initiatives and investments, tracks progress and helps to identify potential conflicts and dependencies to streamline execution. 

Work closely with senior leaders and IT PMO leads in an ongoing manner to create, facilitate, engage, maintain, and coordinate the activities of the Tech portfolio across Gartner IT.

Establishing, meeting and continuously monitoring goals and objectives while maintaining alignment with the strategic and foundational goals and objectives for Gartner IT.

Developing and directing the systems and processes that ensure strategic alignment of the Gartner IT portfolio via standard SPM tools to coordinate enterprise Strategic Portfolio Management activities. 

Guides the establishment and necessary revisions of standard processes for corporate initiative intake, prioritization, communication of the corporate portfolio, resource deployment, progress monitoring, and evaluation of the effectiveness of the portfolio. 

Lead system level efforts to evaluate, identify, and shepherd the implementation of necessary support structures to the execution of the System Portfolio including but not limited to enterprise software, staffing, and other tech investments. 

Facilitating the development and management of the corporate dashboard performance measures and monitor portfolio relevance and performance by tracking progress towards measurable targets. 

Supports nimble strategic planning efforts, understand and align interdependencies between planning projects and initiatives and addresses risks and barriers across the system and portfolio. 

Lead the effort to make the strategic portfolio a system level portfolio and ensure alignment across Gartner IT. 

Support moving the organization from basic awareness of the corporate portfolio, to using it as a guiding star to make business decisions. Through strategic communication this position will drive excitement and visibility of the strategic plan and associated portfolio/initiatives and support alignment to drive towards our vision of a world class IT organization. 

Continue to advance alignment of business planning to execution, as well as supporting ongoing monitoring of benefits realization as defined in the business plans.

Serves as the programmatic and operational leader for portfolio management and reports to the Technology Strategy and Operations leadership. 

Enable IT Leadership to seamlessly adopt a process culture, standards, governance, and methodologies including  planning

Work across the IT organization to facilitate use of business information systems and business intelligence tools to enhance associate effectiveness and business decision-making capability.

Interact with a diverse team of top performing professionals and leaders through the strategic and day to day execution of the core operational functions within IT.

What you will need:

12 to 14 years progressive technology experience managing tool driven strategic portfolio management initiatives for a large tech organization.

Preferably in a strategy, operations or business consulting role, including 10+ years being responsible for strategic operations, executive reporting and the development and deployment of global teams. Knowledge of IT business systems and engineering SDLC cycles strongly preferred.

MBA strongly preferred with an undergraduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as engineering or mathematics.

Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver compelling executive-level presentations. Excellent verbal & written communication skills with demonstrated ability to convey complex concepts and analyses in an accessible and compelling way.

Strong knowledge of tech operations practices with a proven ability to establish trusted business relationships across business units, gain consensus and drive action from a large, diverse global set of constituents.

Results-oriented with excellent business vision and strategic thinking and a proven track record of solving complex problems, thinking creatively and successfully drawing the larger business story out of facts and data.

Demonstrated ability to lead projects and teams in a fast-paced environment and to inspire rapid adoption of change in a complex matrixed organization with distributed virtual teams.

Scrum/Agile certification, PMP certification preferred

Who you are:

Excellent communication skills.

Able to work independently within but interact with a team collaboratively in a fast-paced AGILE environment.

Feels strongly about the importance of Master Data and will do your best to improve it’s quality and trust across the organization

Strong desire to improve upon their skills in tools and technologies.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or other roles.

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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 insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 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 sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. 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.

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.

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