Executive Partner – General Counsel Advisory

What makes Gartner a GREAT fit for you? When you join Gartner, you’ll be part of a fast-growing team that helps the world become smarter and more connected. We’re the world’s leading research and advisory company, achieving consistent double-digit growth by steering clients toward the right decisions with business and technology insights they can’t find anywhere else. Here you’ll enjoy a collaborative work environment supporting some of the best organizations in the world. If you like working with a curious, supportive, high-performing team, then Gartner is the place for you.

When you join the Gartner Executive Partner for General Counsel (GC) team you will experience a high-performance work environment within a company that knows no limits. Gartner Executive Partners serve as trusted advisors to our members who are General Counsel from organizations across all industries. This is a brand new product and a very exciting time to join the organization. About this role: Our clients, General Counsel/Chief Legal Officers or the senior-most individuals responsible for Legal responsibilities, amongst others e.g. compliance, audit, and enterprise risk management, find themselves challenged with the pace of change within the Legal function and their respective organizations as companies continue to focus on developing digital dexterity, managing shifting business models and serving evolving customer and workforce expectations. With the support of their Executive Partner, our Gartner for GC clients more adeptly assess the changes needed within their organization, manage legal and related risks more effectively, achieve their goals more quickly, and operate with a higher assurance of success. As an Executive Partner, you will have the opportunity to deliver solutions for the most critical legal, governance, and risk management challenges facing companies across all industries.

Partnering with our clients means that no two days are the same; you could be supporting the development of the overall legal department strategy and long-term vision, providing recommendations on assessing legal department workload and creating legal metrics and budgets, advising in building or growing the legal operations team to support critical transformation objectives, managing legal talent or restructuring compliance, privacy, enterprise risk or other programs. Clients will also look to you for advice and support on working more closely with the Board, CEO, and the rest of the management team on critical business goals and risks, communicating the value of the legal function, establishing effective governance and oversight processes, as well as staying on top of emerging and top risks to the enterprise. Other emerging priorities include robust third party risk management strategies, coordinated approaches to cyber and information governance, legal technology and AI adoption, and effective reporting and disclosure processes. Gartner for GC EPs serve as accountability partners through delivery of Gartner research insights and personal experiences/expertise on key initiatives, priorities, and strategies of their GC clients.

What You’ll Do

· Provide executive advisory services to GC members who work across all industries and business models.

· Synthesize Gartner insights and data to deliver world class advisory support through ongoing bi-weekly client engagement and periodic client working sessions. The ability and willingness to operate independently to adapt materials fit for client use is required.

· Host, facilitate, and/or participate in periodic member activities, including working sessions to develop strategy, peer roundtables, sessions and client meetings at the annual conference and virtual webinars. These activities may be delivered virtually or on-site depending on circumstance.

· Define and deliver innovative solutions by assessing member needs and developing a customized value plan in accordance with overall Executive Program strategy and product deliverables.

· Facilitate member interaction and peer collaboration through the Gartner for GC member community portal and assisted member connections.

· Work as a collaborative Gartner team member serving members in conjunction with Client Support Professionals and Account Executives.

· Participate in all phases of the member lifecycle: pre-sale, on-boarding, relationship management, delivery, review, and renewal.

· Whilst you will not be responsible for creating content, you will be partnering with R&A Analysts to help identify potential gaps in material that is relevant and valuable to our members.

· There will be a considerable focus on sales enablement in this role. You are responsible for member retention and for contributing to account growth through direct support of Gartner Sales Associates:

o Working with the sales teams to help them understand the true value of the Guided Product to the member vs the Self-Directed product.

o Building their confidence and ability to effectively engage with and sell to this level of C-suite prospect.

o Through the creation of Value Stories, enable the sales associates to bring the service to life.

o You will be partnering with sales on account planning / development activities as well as being present in proof-of-concept (POC) engagements with prospective clients.

What You’ll Need

· The Executive Partner will ideally be an accomplished Corporate General Counsel, working with the C-suite, the Board of Directors and a host of stakeholders, with a broad base of expertise who has operated at a senior leadership level and driven change at all levels.

· At least 5+ years of experience working as a GC (or the top most Legal role within an organization) and at least 15+ years of experience in Corporate Legal environments.

· An in-depth understanding of the Legal function and other adjacent functions, e.g., Compliance, Audit & Risk etc.

· Ideally with a background across multiple industries to be able to support a wide variety of member organizations.

· Law Firm experience, including client relationship management and revenue generation activities, is also highly beneficial.

· Technologically savvy; our model is lean, and you’ll need to handle your own administrative tasks.

· Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite of tools to adapt Power Points, leverage Excel Spreadsheets, and to use Word to draft client-ready materials.

· Consulting background a plus.

Who You Are

· Critical thinker and problem solver demonstrating the ability to assess our Member’s situations and provide actionable, outcome-based business/technical advice as well as the ability to leverage appropriate Gartner resources to help Members achieve results.

· Ability to build strategic internal partnerships with key roles across the organization and positively impact change

· This role is a Client-facing position that requires a high level of Executive presence and ability to quickly build trust and deliver value.

· Demonstrate superior verbal and written communication skills as well as strong facilitation and presentation and facilitation skills. Excellent communication and relationship management skills

· Willing to work independently and handle administrative tasks.

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 insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 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 sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. 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.

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.