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About this Role

This opportunity gives researchers exposure to a range of leadership-level strategic and management topics. The specialist will be responsible for investigating, analyzing, and writing on critical issues facing leaders. This individual will work on a wide range of written deliverables that require (but are not limited to) qualitative research methods – interview global leaders, at leading global corporations, conduct wide-ranging secondary literature searches, and synthesize information to elicit key insights – to help organizations transform the way they operate. The specialist must be intellectually curious and have the desire to quickly develop “generalist” knowledge. The role is a key feeder to careers reaching the highest levels of the firm.

What You’ll Do

• Learn and execute Gartner's proven methodology for conducting world-class research that helps identify best practice solutions to many of today's biggest business challenges.
• Analyze and interpret business problems using root cause analysis, hypothesis generation, survey design, benchmarking, and other qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Perform research by speaking with senior executives, academics, industry experts, etc. and conducting wide-ranging secondary literature searches
• Partner with the global research team to create key research deliverables, including but not limited to: how-to-guides, research studies, white papers, case studies, presentations, guidebooks, templates, etc.

What You’ll Need

• Masters or Ph.D. degree in fields such as marketing, management, economics, etc.
• 0-3 years of research/management consulting experience
• Demonstrated ability to teach and relay ideas, engage clients and work in global teams

Who You Are

• Strong appetite to dive deep into a given content terrain to develop expertise and distill key findings.
• Ability to gather, analyze, restructure, identify and create original insights from qualitative and/or quantitative data.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with particular attention to precision of language and ability to organize information logically.