Senior Director Analyst – Procurement Technology, Contract Lifecycle Management, AI

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Gartner

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1979

📣 Marketing

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Marketing • Logistics • Healthcare

Gartner is a global research and advisory firm providing expert analysis, bold ideas, and guidance to enterprise leaders and their teams. Gartner helps its clients succeed with mission-critical priorities by offering tailored services in client services, consulting, digital markets, executive advisory, finance, human resources, legal, marketing, products, research, sales, and technology. The company emphasizes its high-impact culture built on inclusivity and diversity, with a hybrid work model to foster global collaboration. Gartner also supports 40+ conferences and offers consulting strategies to optimize technology investments.

📋 Description

• Develop and deliver compelling, evidence-based research for procurement and technology leaders • Establish Gartner's point of view on CLM, S2P, procurement orchestration, AI-enabled procurement, contract intelligence, and supplier intelligence • Identify emerging trends, market disruptions, and innovative technologies impacting procurement organizations • Advise Chief Procurement Officers, Heads of Procurement Technology, Digital Transformation Leaders, and CIOs • Conduct high-value client inquiries and strategic advisory discussions • Help clients develop procurement digital transformation strategies, prioritize technology and AI investments, evaluate vendors, implement technology, manage adoption, and navigate change • Publish innovative research addressing clients' challenges • Contribute to Gartner methodologies, frameworks, assessment models, Market Overviews, Magic Quadrants, Market Quadrants, and Hype Cycles • Present at Gartner conferences and executive events globally • Facilitate executive roundtables, webinars, and peer discussions • Engage with technology providers, startups, investors, and industry practitioners • Evaluate emerging and established vendors across the procurement technology ecosystem • Lead research into generative AI and agentic AI capabilities in procurement • Help clients distinguish AI hype from practical business outcomes • Establish best practices for AI governance, adoption, risk management, and value realization

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience within procurement technology (source-to-pay), sourcing technology, and CLM technology • Deep expertise in Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), including standalone CLM provider landscapes • Deep understanding of Source-to-Pay (S2P) suites and procurement technology ecosystems, including vendor landscapes • Experience advising executives, leading transformation initiatives, and assessing procurement technology vendors • Demonstrated expertise in Artificial Intelligence applications within procurement, sourcing, contracting, or supplier management • Exceptional written, analytical, and presentation skills • Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insight • Strong executive presence and credibility with senior business leaders • Experience in procurement technology leadership, procurement consulting, enterprise software strategy, digital procurement transformation, CLM solution leadership, procurement operations and innovation, or industry analyst research welcomed • Experience with platforms such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Ivalua, Oracle, JAGGAER, GEP, Icertis, Sirion, Ironclad, Agiloft, Conga, and other leading procurement and CLM vendors is highly valued

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation • World-class benefits • Flexible hybrid work environment, working virtually when productive and meeting colleagues in person • Professional growth and career development opportunities • Inclusive workplace and equal employment opportunities • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities