Associate Consultant

Gartner Consulting is the leading independent IT and business consultancy, helping clients define key IS/IT strategies, manage major technology initiatives, optimize business processes and operations through IT and telecommunications and achieve high returns on their related investments. Using Gartner methodologies, benchmarks and the full power of Gartner Research, we help clients to measure performance, optimize and create quantifiable business value, independently from implementation interests. Gartner also provides management consulting services to executive and senior level management on how to better leverage IT and innovate. Gartner has no downstream commitments or associations with suppliers of ICT services that would prejudice our unbiased assessments.

Gartner is growing its high-performance HTTP consulting team in the Nordics. Our business success is supported by the impeccable quality of our delivery, the trust we inspire to our clients, and the high level of experience and track record of our consultants. Our projects are mainly to large international and local accounts at strategic level. Local and global clients derive value from this team as well as from the participation of our internal colleagues.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES AND SPECIFIC DUTIES

As a successful Associate Consultant, you will:

Provide analytical support to project team
Conduct research using library facilities, Gartner Analysts, other Gartner resources and primary research.
Analyze, interpret, extrapolate, project and model data to reach conclusions.
Prepare written reports with text, charts, and spreadsheets for internal presentation and for inclusion in reports going to clients.
Participate in opening client conference at which the engagement is defined (kick-off meetings)
May participate in final conference with client at which final report is delivered.

REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's degree and 1-2 years management consulting experience
Solid analytical skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to travel
Fluent in English
Domain Expertise:
A combination of any of the following areas would be preferable: IT Strategy, Governance, Organization, Enterprise Architecture, Sourcing, Business Process Management and Outsourcing, Critical Program Management

PERSONAL PROFILE

You enrich your qualifications and experience with being an enthusiastic, energetic, trustworthy, target and advice oriented personality, with a high level of curiosity and interest of IS/IT, the research and advice business and Gartner

Ability to analyze problems - natural aptitude for critical thinking, analytical models and financial analysis.
Ability to synthesis and translate complex technical aspects into business terms and define from business objectives and constraints complex technical solutions
Trustworthy and perceptive, with effective use of judgment
Willingness to travel (potentially several days per week)