Associate Director, Technology Strategy Consulting (GenAi)

Gartner; Roma; Ibrido; EUR 74.000 - 84.000; Tempo pieno

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Hybrid work environment

Descrizione del lavoro

Gartner’s Consulting business is expanding rapidly. This role, based in Rome or Milan with hybrid work, leads high‑level delivery and client relationships, advising executives on how technology can transform business outcomes.

You’ll apply AI, Generative AI, data governance, and transformation knowledge to develop roadmaps, operating models, and governance frameworks while guiding teams across engagements. The position offers a base salary in Italy around €74,000–€84,000 annually, with bonus

Competenze

• Experience in a well-regarded management consultancy in an engagement leadership capacity.
• Experience across AI and Generative AI topics including strategy, transformation programmes, LLMs, and responsible AI.
• Ability to manage multiple client priorities and lead teams toward strategic outcomes.
• MBA or other advanced degree preferred.

Mansioni

• Lead high-level project delivery and oversight along with client relationship management.
• Manage teams and advise clients on strategic decisions about how technology enables business outcomes.
• Support development of AI roadmaps, operating models, and governance frameworks.
• Demonstrate hands-on problem solving and ability to work with diverse client teams.

Conoscenze

Engagement leadership

AI strategy

Client relationship management

Strategic thinking

Team leadership

Formazione

MBA or advanced degree

Descrizione del lavoro

About the role:

Hybrid working based in Rome or Milan

About the role:

Gartner’s Consulting business is an _ extension _ of Gartner’s industry-leading IT Research. From CIOs, to leaders in business and government, we help Gartner clients across enterprises translate insights into transformational actions and achieve their mission-critical priorities. Leveraging the breadth of Gartner’s resources, Consulting is growing rapidly, with unlimited potential to continue expanding our client base.

Technology Strategy Consulting. We help the C-suite make the right decisions based on how technology can transform their businesses. In today’s world, a consulting firm that is “born digital”, (with the ability to directly leverage the full power of Gartner’s research and insights) has relevance to the most important strategic decisions any business will make.

What you’ll do

Our Consulting Associate Directors are responsible for high-level project delivery and oversight along with client relationship management. You will manage teams, and advise clients at the highest strategic level on both big-picture and tactical matters, focusing on how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes.

What you’ll need:

• Experience within a well-regarded management consultancy in an engagement leadership capacity
• Experience across a range of AI and Generative AI topics, such as:
  • AI and Generative AI strategy
  • AI transformation programmes and enterprise adoption
  • Large Language Models (LLMs), foundation models, multimodal AI, and AI agents
  • Generative AI architecture, including cloud, on-premise, hybrid, and multi-model environments
  • Knowledge of scalable, secure, responsible, and cost-effective AI solutions
  • AI use-case identification, prioritisation, business case development, and value realisation
  • AI operating models, governance frameworks, policies, and controls
  • Responsible AI, including privacy, security, explainability, bias, safety, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance
  • AI risk management, model evaluation, monitoring, and assurance
  • Data strategy, data governance, data quality, and data readiness for AI adoption
  • MLOps and LLMOps, including model deployment, lifecycle management, observability, and continuous improvement
• AI architecture and modernisation experience, including integrating Generative AI into existing applications, business processes, and customer journeys
• Experience evaluating an organisation’s data, technology, and AI capabilities against long-term business objectives
• Experience selecting and evaluating AI platforms, foundation models, technology vendors, and implementation approaches
• Experience developing AI roadmaps, target operating models, capability requirements, implementation plans, and transformation programmes
• Experience delivering AI proofs of concept and supporting the transition of solutions from experimentation into production
• Understanding of the organisational and workforce implications of AI, including skills, culture, operating processes, and change management
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and the ability to assist in the creative development of solutions and strategies to solve client problems
• An ability to be hands‑on and to manage multiple client priorities simultaneously
• MBA or other advanced degree preferred

Consulting Experience:

• Experience within a well-regarded management consultancy in a project delivery capacity.
• Prior experience in a problem‑solving capacity such as a solution/technical architect or analyst preferred
• A consistent track record of leading people and building high‑performing teams that leverage technology to drive the mission‑critical priorities of commercial or government entities
• An ability to inspire and motivate professionals from both technical and non‑technical backgrounds towards a common goal
• 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 hands‑on and to manage multiple client priorities simultaneously
• Excellence in written and verbal communication
• Expertise with strategic consulting frameworks
• Building rapid proto‑types for presentations / sales proposals
• Excellent people skills and customer relationship track record;
• Experience in developing client business relationships as part of a commercial organisation;

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 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 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 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 vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. 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.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.

It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.

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.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 74,000 EUR - 84,000 EUR in Italy. Employees participate in either a bonus plan based on company and individual performance or a role‑based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide more details on compensation, benefits and our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates during the recruitment process.

The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.

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