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From CIOs to senior leaders in business and government, we help Gartner clients translate insight into action and achieve their mission critical priorities. Leveraging the breadth and depth of Gartner’s research, Consulting continues to grow rapidly, offering significant opportunity to deepen client impact and expand our footprint. Technology Strategy Consulting sits at the heart of this mission. We help C-suite leaders make confident, high value decisions on how technology can transform their organizations. As a digitally native consultancy, Gartner Consulting brings a unique advantage: the ability to directly leverage Gartner’s research and insights to inform the most important strategic decisions our clients face.\nAbout the Role\nAs an Associate Director, you will advise senior leaders across industries on technology strategy, digital transformation, operating models, and execution assurance. You will lead complex engagements and build trusted client relationships. This is a highly visible role for an experienced consultant who combines strong strategy fundamentals, technology insight and client advisory credibility.\nWhat You Will Do\nSenior Client Advisory\nYou will:\nAct as a trusted advisor to senior executives across commercial and public-sector organisations. \nShape and deliver technology and digital strategies aligned to organisational goals such as growth, efficiency, resilience, customer experience, and innovation. \nProvide technology foresight and market intelligence, grounded in Gartner’s global research, benchmarks, and best practices. \nLead the delivery of complex consulting engagements, including: \nDigital, AI, data, and technology operating models\nEnterprise IT and digital strategies and roadmaps \nCloud and applications modernisation \nEnterprise architecture, governance, and decision frameworks \nSupport clients in achieving measurable outcomes, including value realisation, cost optimisation, and execution confidence. \nProgramme Assurance & Governance\nAdvise on the design and improvement of governance models, organisational structures, and sourcing strategies across diverse operating environments. \nProvide independent challenge and assurance at key programme and investment decision points. \nSupport major transformation initiatives through benefits tracking, delivery assurance, and risk management. \nPeople & Culture\nCoach, mentor, and support consultants within the UK consulting team. \nContribute to a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative consulting culture aligned with Gartner values. \nWhat You Bring\nYou may currently be an Engagement Manager, Principal, Associate Director, or Senior Manager within a consulting firm or advisory environment.\nConsulting & Strategy Capability\nStrong grounding in management consulting and technology strategy (consulting firm experience strongly preferred). \nExperience leading client engagements end-to-end, from problem definition through delivery. \nConfidence operating with senior executive stakeholders in complex organisations. \nTechnology & Transformation Expertise\nExperience in one or more of the following areas:\nCIO and executive advisory services \nEnterprise and IT strategy \nEnd-to-end technology-enabled transformation \nApplications modernisation \nCloud transformation \nData, analytics, and AI strategy \nValue realisation, benefits management, or programme assurance \nSourcing, vendor management, and contract optimisation \nPersonal Attributes\nStrong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills. \nHigh standards of integrity, discretion, and professional judgement. \nBachelor’s degree required (Master’s degree or equivalent experience is an advantage). \nWhy This Role Is Unique\nJoining Gartner Consulting in the UK as an Associate Director offers:\nThe opportunity to advise organisations, addressing some of their most complex technology and transformation challenges. \nDirect access to Gartner’s global research, benchmarks, and insights, creating a distinctive and powerful advisory advantage. \nThe ability to shape and grow a high-impact Technology Strategy Consulting practice in a fast-growing market. \nOur Team Culture\nAt Gartner Consulting, we believe exceptional client impact starts with exceptional people. You’ll join a team built on shared values, deep technology expertise, and a strong sense of purpose. We foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous learning where every voice is heard and every contribution matters.\nWe also value flexibility. Our consultants are trusted to work where they perform best whether from home, the office, or on-site with clients. What truly connects us is not where we work, but how we work: with integrity, curiosity, and a commitment to making a difference.\nWho are we?\nAt Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.\nOur 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.\nSince 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.\nWhat makes Gartner a great place to work?\nOur 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.\nWe hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.\nOur teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.\nWe 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.\nGartner is the world authority on AI\nAt 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.\nIt’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.\nWhat do we offer?\nGartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.\nIn 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.\nReady to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.\nThe 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.\nGartner is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. 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