Director Analyst, Supply Execution
Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have research, market predictions and best practices for a broad range of world‑leading organizations. A Director Analyst possesses a keen eye for identifying gaps, problems, and solutions within the market or domain they serve. They use their knowledge to help clients make better decisions, solve complex issues, and execute new practices that propel clients’ businesses toward key objectives. A Director Analyst publishes these insights as pragmatic and/or provocative research. Additionally, they reinforce Gartner’s value every day by engaging clients via in‑person and virtual meetings, sales support visits, Gartner conferences and industry events.
What you’ll do:
- Produce innovative, thought‑leading research that helps senior supply chain leaders solve their most pressing Supply Execution and Inventory Excellence challenges—delivering analytically rigorous, fact‑based insights that translate directly into improved production, capacity, and inventory performance.
- Monitor and identify early trends or signals of market, technology, and operating‑model changes in supply execution, translating these observations into emerging‑insights research that equips senior leaders to navigate new risks and opportunities before they fully materialize.
- Guide C‑level and senior supply chain and operations leaders in improving total supply chain cost, service, working capital, and growth by helping them integrate processes across functions and orchestrate coordinated execution across the extended supply network.
- Translate Gartner’s research into tailored, industry‑specific insights for senior supply chain leaders, adapting guidance to the unique operating models, constraints, and maturity levels found across diverse manufacturing subsectors.
- Work closely with peer analysts in manufacturing strategy, supply chain planning, sourcing, and network design to deliver unified, cross‑functional perspectives that strengthen clients’ ability to integrate planning and execution across the entire supply network.
- Contribute to Gartner’s internal research community by engaging in collaborative discussions, challenging emerging viewpoints, and shaping shared perspectives that strengthen the quality and impact of our collective research.
- Lead process and capability assessments to help senior supply chain leaders diagnose performance gaps and leverage external diagnostics to improve outcomes.
- Prepare and deliver high‑value presentations and other materials to C‑level and senior supply chain leaders.
- Support the Gartner sales team in driving new business through proof of capability discussions.
- Drive client demand for your advice and insight by delivering consistently high‑value interactions across inquiries, workshops, and presentations.
- Build a strong personal brand—internally and externally—by consistently demonstrating thought leadership and contributing distinctive viewpoints that reinforce Gartner’s reputation for authoritative supply chain insight.
What you’ll need:
- 10+ years of experience in supply execution and inventory planning in complex manufacturing networks, with at least 5 years in senior supply management roles.
- Strong expertise in the people, process, and governance aspects of supply execution; deep technology, vendor or market skills and knowledge are not required. The successful candidate has the ability to evaluate how processes, roles, and decision rights shape execution performance.
- Experience in managing supply and inventory for manufacturers across multiple industries; familiarity with both process and discrete operations preferred.
- Possess excellent communication skills both verbal and written; preferably have had the experience of “main stage” speaking.
- Demonstrate strong analytical skills, applying conceptual models, recognizing patterns, and drawing conclusions.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Limited (<20 days/year) domestic and international travel as needed.
Who you are:
- Trusted partner – combines confident insight with humble curiosity, taking shared ownership of client challenges and building the trusted‑advisor relationships needed to drive real performance improvement.
- Collaborative: experienced providing service and collaborating with global colleagues.
- Organized – skilled at multitasking, prioritizing, and working under tight deadlines and high volume and able to work remotely.
- Confident – able to make sound decisions on projects with minimum supervision.
- Analytically savvy – have strong critical thinking and analytical capabilities.
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