[Hiring] Strategic Partner to Corporate General Counsel Clients (Senior Director/Analyst) @Gartner

Role Description

Analysts create must-have insights for our clients through published research and client interaction helping solve organizational challenges that lead to better performance. As part of Gartner’s Corporate Assurance Practice, you will join a dynamic team focused on advising General Counsel (GC) and other assurance leaders at the world’s largest companies to create greater value for their firms. This role will meaningfully expand insight and support for GCs. We are looking for an entrepreneurial, self-motivated, and ideas-driven individual to help serve clients on the topics below.

As a Gartner analyst, you will engage with clients every day: on the phone, in videoconferences, or even on-stage at a Gartner event. To support these conversations you will research practices, trends, technology, and produce research for Gartner clients to view online or download and apply. You will:

• Create insightful, actionable research for General Counsel, providing best practices and advice on board governance, risk management, and leading the legal function of the future—including key executive skills, risk management skills, and an understanding of how the board will need to evolve to meet changing shareholder demands.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging developments and issues (e.g., M&A trends, regulatory changes) by understanding the broader market and ecosystem related to the legal function and GC success, partnering with internal experts, and learning from client best practices.
• Maintain Gartner’s industry leadership reputation by thoughtfully responding to press inquiries and representing Gartner at industry events.
• Provide sales support, serving as the voice of market and domain expert, assisting Gartner’s commercial team paint a vision of service for prospective Gartner clients.
• Support other Gartner analysts in the creation of content to drive engagement with clients, helping them to make progress against their critical priorities.
• Provide high-quality and timely peer review on peers’ research content. Have credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner insights, methodology and strategy.
• Be client-centric, actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions.
• Create and deliver high-value presentation materials (either in-person or virtual) for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, webinars, and client briefings.

Qualifications

• J.D. with 12 years of experience working as a lawyer in house.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated experience presenting to the board, leading and/or coordinating risk management efforts, developing function strategy, and building talent and relationships across the organization.
• Knowledge of and experience working as a GC or in a similar role (AGC/DGC).
• Experience and interest in advising, presenting to, and writing for the most senior levels of an organization (e.g., CEO, GC, Board of Directors, Chief Audit Executives, Head of Risk/ERM, Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer).
• Demonstrate executive presence; with the ability to establish credibility with executives and additional stakeholders.
• High learning agility and comfort navigating highly matrixed, fast-changing environments.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to various audiences and influence at all levels.

Benefits

• World-class benefits.
• Highly competitive compensation.
• Disproportionate rewards for top performers.
• Flexibility in a hybrid work environment.
• Generous PTO.
• 401k match up to $7,200 per year.
• Opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.

Company Description

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 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 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.

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.