Sr Director Analyst, Direct Procurement

We need to emphasize executive advisory leadership Should Cost expertise inventory management geopolitical risk regulatory impacts and commodity intelligence.

The Gartner Analyst Role

• Create innovative thought provoking and highly leveraged must-have insights content
• Develop new insights and ideas through thought leadership and offer compelling actionable approaches to clients needs and requests that accelerate the clients ability to act
• Develop in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of a clients barriers or overall needs and reframe thinking to drive strategy forward
• Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing Insights positions across a team of analysts
• Bring provocative independent insights to Gartner leaders that can evolve the course of a research agenda
• Research analyze and predict market trends and shifts to provide clients and vendors with actionable insights
• Provide clients and prospects with actionable advice aligned to their designated content area via virtual or face-to-face interactions
• Create and deliver high value presentation materials on and off stage for Gartner events industry and professional association conferences and client briefings
• Support research and Sales: Provide sales support serving as voice of the market to help Insights 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 content peer review
• Build credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner insights methodology and strategy
• Actively participate in innovation ideation and research discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the Insights community
• Identify research process improvements or develop new processes that help the team and research provide excellent service delivery
• Be a mentor and a coach by supporting more junior team members
• Be client-centric while actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in supply chain Procurement Engineering Business Economics or related field.
• 15 years of progressive experience in direct procurement and supply chain leadership.
• Executive advisory experience supporting CPOs CSCOs CFOs and senior executives.
• Recognized expertise in direct materials sourcing commodity strategy and procurement transformation.
• Exceptional analytical presentation research and communication skills.
• Proven manufacturing background (CPG heavy industry) within global procurement footprints.

Focus Areas

• Develop and execute global direct procurement and commodity strategies that ensure cost competitive agile supply chains aligned with business objectives
• Advise on leveraging strong cross-functional collaboration across Operations Finance R&D Engineering Supplier Quality and Quality to optimize the end-to-end supply chain through joint governance shared KPIs and change managementenhancing inventory and working capital optimization VMI sustainability and risk management.
• Advise clients on Should Cost Analysis clean-sheet costing total cost of ownership and supplier economics.
• Analyze commodity markets industry trends cost drivers and supply market dynamics (not looking for specific categories or markets but the mechanics of such analyses).
• Assess geopolitical tariff sanctions trade policy and regulatory impacts on sourcing decisions.
• Translate complex market developments into actionable executive guidance.
• Provide guidance on inventory optimization supply continuity working capital tradeoffs and VMI.
• Lead supplier risk dependency qualification onboarding development and performance strategies.
• Advise on procurement technology analytics AI and transformation initiatives.
• Experience in global organizations with hybrid regional and global procurement operating models.

Areas of Expertise

• Should Cost Analysis & Cost Modeling
• Inventory Management & Supply Continuity
• Geopolitical Risk & Trade Policy
• Regulatory Impact Analysis
• Commodity Markets & Commodity Risk Management
• Supplier Relationship & Lifecycle Management
• Supplier Quality
• Supplier Innovation
• Industry & Commodity Trend Forecasting
• Supplier Ecosystem Management
• Procurement Technology & AI
• Supply Chain Agility and Resilience

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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 weve grown to 20000 associates globally who support over 13000 client enterprises in 90 countries and territories. We do important interesting and substantive work that matters. Thats 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.

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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 its productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful engaging and inspiring.

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