Job Description
About this role:
Gartner is looking for a Director Analyst to provide research and advisory to global clients in the US, EMEA and beyond. You are likely to have experience as a Procurement leader or IT Leader serving Procurement, vendor product manager, or consultancy working with senior-most institution leadership. Your experience will include helping Executives transform their Procurement digital capabilities and achieve best-in-class performance.
What you will do:
You will work with a collaborative team of highly experienced experts to build pragmatic and authoritative research and advice that directly addresses the priorities and challenges of clients aligned to the Procurement technology sector. The focus is helping clients understand the impact of technology on their procurement function and helping them to select and use the best fit technology vendors for their Procurement organization. You will primarily support procurement leaders, application leaders who support procurement, technology vendors and providers, consultants and investors.
You will be writing research and represent thought leadership by providing advice to Procurement technology leaders, Chief Procurement Officers, and their teams on:
o How to use AI to improve automation in sourcing and procurement.
o Emerging analytics capabilities to improve my source-to-pay processes.
o Value drivers in the business case for sourcing and procurement applications.
o Creating a technology roadmap that best aligns with the business objectives.
o How to select best-fit technology vendors within the Source-to-Pay (S2P) market landscape
o How to plan for, resource, and manage a procurement technology implementation
o How to drive adoption and achieve desired return-on-investment for procurement technology
Keys to success will include:
Remaining ahead of the curve on developments and issues within these specified areas as well as applicable adjacent areas of procurement applications.
Delivering high quality actionable advice through presentations and inquiry calls, and discussions with clients
Write high quality, clear, actionable, advisory research documents
What you’ll need:
10+ years of experience working with various procurement applications vendors and technologies including selecting, implementing, driving adoption and change management and/or managing procurement technology vendors.
Strong familiarity with solutions from major technology providers such as Coupa, SAP Ariba, GEP, Jaggaer and Ivalua.
An ability to articulate the role procurement and sourcing technology plays in delivering business value
Experience leading strategic transformation projects that focus on digital enablement
A perspective on what emerging technologies are most relevant for procurement and how they will impact the procurement function
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Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Director Analyst, Procurement Technology Expert (Remote-Eastern Canada) position is now open for candidates interested in the Work from home Jobs sector. This role in Edmonton offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Work from home Jobs is a plus.
