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Director, Retention Programs

Egham
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About the role

The Global Retention Programs team are experts in ensuring that Gartner’s largest clients retain and grow their business with the company. The team acts as internal consultants to Sales and Service leaders and also plays a critical role in providing Gartner’s Operating Committee with regular recommendations, insights, and opportunities to shape the company’s retention and growth strategy.

What you will do

  • Lead cross-functionally to improve retention and growth within Gartner’s largest, most strategic accounts
  • Lead a team of GRP associates focused on Global Accounts, effectively coaching them to mitigate risk and support channel growth by aligning best-practice retention and growth plays to complex account scenarios
  • Lead strategic projects and initiatives, with insights to the Operating Committee
  • Influence senior leaders within Gartner, with regular interactions across Sales, Service, BTI, Conferences, Product, and other business units
  • Challenge team to innovate client-facing processes, deliverables, and advise on successful strategies to influence account team actions and success rate with clients

What you will need

  • Bachelors required, MBA or master’s degree preferred.
  • 10+ years relevant business experience including successfully leading strategic transformation initiatives, plus:
    • 4+ years of Business Transformation experience working with senior executives
    • Previous leadership experience.
    • Strong connector of people, concepts, and applications.
    • Must be a high energy and highly motivated individual; goal and results oriented, demonstrates a bias for action, and disciplined execution.
    • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, driving clarity, and executing in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
    • Demonstrated ability to partner with and influence senior executives and align diverse stakeholders around strategic priorities.
    • Able to translate complex concepts simply and distill key “so what’s” for an array of stakeholders.
    • Ability to toggle between strategic considerations and tactical implications, helping to deliver the approach and execute to create specific deliverables.
    • Strong and effective communication skills; ability to present to senior leaders, as well as peers in a clear manner, fostering dialogue and helping to drive decisions.

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At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes. It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.

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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.

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Skills

Strategic Transformation
Executive Influence
Cross-functional Leadership
Retention Strategy
Account Management
Business Transformation
Stakeholder Alignment
Strategic Planning
Coaching
Risk Mitigation
Communication Skills
Analytical Thinking

Location

Egham, England, United Kingdom

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