DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT, CONFERENCES STRATEGY & DEVELOPMENT

About Strategic Project Management, Conferences Strategy & Development  As a part of the Conferences Strategy & Development team, the Strategic Project Management (SPM) Center of Excellence (COE) focuses on high impact projects, ensuring a centralized approach to fully leverage our capabilities across the Conferences business.
This highly collaborative team helps drive forward projects to support the growth and scalability of the Global Conferences Portfolio with a primary focus on managing Key Initiative Meetings, Conference Launch Planning & Management, Strategic Roadmap Execution and Competitive Market Analysis.
About the role.
As the Director, Strategic Project Management (SPM), you will be responsible for partnering with key leaders to centralize, prioritize, and lead initiatives to support the highest priorities of the Conferences organization as we seek to double the Conferences business over the next five years.
The Director will play an important role in identifying Key Initiative (KI) Meeting topics to align with the priorities of the Global Leadership Team (GLT) and will be responsible for establishing a scalable strategy to effectively manage KI Meetings.
Within the KI Meeting forum, you will be a thought partner to the KI Lead, identifying key opportunities and advising on frameworks and methodologies to help solve the most pressing questions facing the Conferences business.
Understanding the conferences business is a key pillar to success in this role.
This self-starter should continually seek opportunities for optimization and improvement across the Conferences business to help the organization evolve and scale effectively in a changing environment in a way that helps evolve the business and supports our ability to meet client and business needs today and in the future.
The responsibilities of this role and team will continue to evolve with the business, ensuring we remain focused on the highest impact projects.
This individual will collaborate with key stakeholders across Conferences including Product, Marketing, Operations, Sales, and Business Operations to drive forward strategic initiatives.
What you will do.
Optimize and drive forward an effective Key Initiative (KI) Meeting strategy to address Conferences top priorities in a timely and effective manner.
Establish an internal communications framework to increase awareness, ensure stakeholder alignment, and drive accountability across all deliverables.
Own and maintain all meeting communications including invites, meeting summary, and action items for assigned KI Meetings to encourage effective cross-team collaboration.
Partner with the Global Leadership Team (GLT) and senior leaders to identify KI topics, define meeting scope, deliverables, and establish attainable timelines.
Be a thought-partner to KI leaders helping to shape and evolve early-stage ideas into key deliverables.
Lead cross-functional projects and Key Initiative workstreams and support cross-functional project teams where required to support driving portfolio growth and our ability to scale across the global conferences portfolio Standardize the process to effectively monitor project status and success metrics to share leadership updates on a quarterly basis ensuring alignment across the conferences business.
Build trusted partnerships with team members and leaders across the organization, leveraging in office time to connect with stakeholders, learn from your peers and keep a pulse on priorities across the teams to support your success in this role Seek opportunities to learn and develop new skills to become a utility player across the business by expanding knowledge of all functions of the Conferences business and portfolio initiatives Ability to travel up to % of the time What you will need.
Bachelor’s Degree preferred 12+ years’ experience in Project Management, Conferences, or Consulting; conference or event experience preferred Strong analytical skills to deliver strategies that effectively address business needs Exceptional collaboration skills with proven ability to build partnerships across lines of business Excellent oral and written communication skills; demonstrated ability to speak/write clearly and persuasively with ability to present to peers and leaders with confidence and poise Ability to efficiently prioritize and plan work activities in a dynamic work environment High degree of comfort applying frameworks and structure to work through ambiguity and uncertainty Experience with change management frameworks and internal communications Smart, bold, but humble attitude to work collaboratively with fellow associates Energized by ambiguity and solving complex problems Fully competent in Microsoft Office and Google, especially Excel; strong excel and/or google sheets experience required with an ability to build and execute functions using both pivot tables and v-lookup #LI-KH7 #LI-hybrid Who are we? At Gartner, Inc.
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