Medium Business (MB) Research Analyst

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This is a position as a Gartner analyst in the IT Leaders ? IT Infrastructure Operations research organization. This role will provide CIOs and heads of IT/network with a balance of strategic and tactical actionable advice on infrastructure and operations topics (network systems, services and applications, mobile and client computing, security, data center and cloud services) and process/operational considerations that support these domains. The analyst should be able to discuss these initiatives within clients? limited financial means and resource constraints. The successful candidate will have broad infrastructure knowledge, while focusing in greater detail on the top 3 to 5 initiatives currently most important to medium-size businesses (100-999 employees, whose IT departments average between 12-25 employees). This role will leverage other infrastructure and operations analysts? content but will customize the research to medium business IT leaders by citing pertinent unique variances and actionable advice.

In addition, this position will work closely on business development initiatives with Gartner?s salesforce.

A successful candidate must have a broad knowledge of the infrastructure and operations functions as well as an understanding of the IT behaviors in the medium business market. The candidate must be able to analyze markets as well as write and present objective, thought provoking and actionable advice targeted to senior level clients in these organizations. The analyst will develop and publish futuristic, compelling scenarios and recommendations covering the infrastructure and operations market as it relates to medium business IT requirements. Client contact will be a combination of email and phone interactions, complemented by some face to face interactions. 

There are quality measurements to the position focused on timely client service and research deliverables, client interest in research content, collaboration as well as productivity targets. Specific responsibilities that will be required to serve our medium business clients include:

Qualifications

This is a Research Director position for an extremely capable candidate which requires the successful candidate be completely conversant with the intersection of the infrastructure and operations and the medium business marketplaces. The candidate is required to understand infrastructure trends, etc., how IT vendors are structured and differentiated, and how the infrastructure market is evolving. We anticipate the candidate will work with more specialized analysts but he or she must have sufficient expertise to hit the ground running in advising medium businesses on their infrastructure and operations initiatives.

The candidate must be a strategic thinker with solid market and technology expertise, able to efficiently multitask, and be able to deliver high quality targeted advice on time through a variety of media. He/she must have demonstrated the ability to work in a self-motivated manner but within a collaborative team environment.

This position requires at least 10 years of experience working in this area as an IT leader, or with an IT provider specializing in medium business IT requirements.  Other pertinent relevant experience includes editorial/journalism roles for an IT/network trade magazine, or as a technology writer for a business periodical.

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