Managing Partner, State & Local Government, PNW, Oregon & Washington

Gartner; Washington; On-site; USD 188,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

401k match

Stock purchase program

PTO

Job summary

Gartner Consulting in North America is seeking a Managing Partner to guide CIOs, CEOs, and senior government leaders through technology-driven transformation. You will own and expand a portfolio of the firm's most important clients, delivering Gartner insights to drive growth and resilience across large public- and private-sector enterprises.

You will lead high-impact consulting engagements, build senior-level relationships, and develop teams of top-performing consultants.

Qualifications

• A proven background in a well-regarded consulting firm, balancing client delivery and revenue generation
• Strong foundation in technology problem solving (architecture, analytics, engineering, or strategy roles)
• Credibility across multiple IT domains - not just one lane
• A track record of leading teams with a strong collaboration mindset, influencing executives, and delivering outcomes - not just recommendations
• Intellectual curiosity and the confidence to adapt Gartner's frameworks to each client's unique situation
• The stamina and presence to juggle multiple senior-level client priorities without losing focus or quality
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Advise at the highest level. Partner with senior executives to define technology strategies that directly enable business outcomes-growth, efficiency, innovation, and risk mitigation.
• Turn insight into execution. Lead hands-on consulting engagements grounded in Gartner insights, helping clients move from what should we do? to how do we make this real?
• Drive measurable value. Help organizations modernize platforms, rationalize applications, migrate to cloud, unlock data and analytics, manage cyber risk, and optimize cost and sourcing.
• Expand account portfolio and drive revenue growth through strategic relationship development and consistently identifying and closing new opportunities
• Lead exceptional teams. Inspire, coach, and develop high-performing consultants who thrive on solving complex problems.

Skills

Executive relationships

Strategic consulting

Technology problem solving

Team leadership

Credibility across IT domains

MBA preferred

Education

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

At Gartner, we guide the leaders who shape the world, equipping them with indispensable insights, advice, and tools to achieve missioncritical priorities.

Gartner Consulting is where that insight becomes action, helping the world's most influential enterprises and publicsector leaders turn complexity into competitive advantage.

As a Managing Partner in Gartner Consulting North America, you will advise the country's most influential organizations on the decisions that will define their next decade.

The Opportunity

As a Managing Partner, you operate at the intersection of strategy, technology, and executive leadership. You are a trusted advisor to CIOs, CEOs, and senior government leaders - helping them navigate disruption, make highstakes decisions, and turn technology into a driver of growth, resilience, and transformation.

You will own and expand a portfolio of Gartner's most important clients, bringing the full force of Gartner's unmatched insights, benchmarking, and global expertise to their most missioncritical challenges.

Why This Role Matters in North America

North America's enterprises face a distinctive set of pressures:

• Modernizing deeply entrenched legacy environments without disrupting operations
• Balancing global digital acceleration with local compliance, risk management, and governance
• Turning data, AI, and cloud investments into measurable value - not pilots
• Managing ecosystem complexity across vendors, integrators, and internal stakeholders
• Optimizing cost while maintaining quality, security, and brand trust, Gartner Consulting helps leaders navigate this complexity with evidence-based decisions, benchmarks, and pragmatic execution.

What You'll Do

• Advise at the highest level. Partner with senior executives to define technology strategies that directly enable business outcomes-growth, efficiency, innovation, and risk mitigation.
• Turn insight into execution. Lead handson consulting engagements grounded in Gartner insights, helping clients move from "what should we do?" to "how do we make this real?"
• Drive measurable value. Help organizations modernize platforms, rationalize applications, migrate to cloud, unlock data and analytics, manage cyber risk, and optimize cost and sourcing.
• Expand account portfolio and drive revenue growth through strategic relationship development and consistently identifying and closing new opportunities
• Lead exceptional teams. Inspire, coach, and develop highperforming consultants who thrive on solving complex problems.

Where You'll Make Impact

Your client work will span some of the most critical priorities facing enterprises today, including:

• Digital Acceleration & Enterprise Transformation
• Cloud Strategy and Operating Models
• Data, Analytics & AI Enablement
• Application and Portfolio Rationalization
• Cybersecurity, Risk & Resilience
• Sourcing, Ecosystem & Vendor Optimization
• Contract, Cost & Value Optimization
• Benchmarkdriven decision making

With a particular focus on State & Local Government Agencies in Oregon (OR) and/or Washington (WA), you will help leaders modernize legacy environments while competing in increasingly digital, datadriven markets.

What Sets You Apart

• A proven background in a wellregarded consulting firm, balancing client delivery and revenue generation
• Strong foundation in technology problemsolving (architecture, analytics, engineering, or strategy roles)
• Credibility across multiple IT domains - not just one "lane"
• A track record of leading teams with a strong collaboration mindset, influencing executives, and delivering outcomes - not just recommendations
• Intellectual curiosity and the confidence to adapt Gartner's frameworks to each client's unique situation
• The stamina and presence to juggle multiple seniorlevel client priorities without losing focus or quality
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Who Thrives at Gartner in This Role

• Executivelevel relationship builders who are comfortable selling insight, not just services
• Leaders who are coachable, reflective, and hungry to get better every year
• Consistent overachievers who combine ambition with humility
• People energized by complexity, change, and the chance to shape how organizations evolve through technology

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. 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 188,000 USD - 248,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location.
• In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role‑based, uncapped sales incentive plan.
• Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates.
• We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

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