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Director, Strategic Analytics Initiatives

Gartner for HR
Irving, TX Other
POSTED ON 11/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/24/2025
Description

Director, Strategic Analytics Initiatives

Location: Irving, TX

Gartner’s core asset is its people.  Our people develop insights, share advice, and create experiences that help our clients be more successful.  The HR Strategy & Operations team within Gartner derives actionable insights from workforce data to recommend and implement better ways of attracting, developing, and retaining Gartner associates to drive growth, higher sales, more productivity, and better client experiences.  We drive impact on Gartner’s Mission Critical Priorities by leveraging state of the art technology, analytics, and processes.

As Gartner’s Director of Strategic Insights for People Analytics, you will be a hands-on problem solver who partners across HR & Business leaders to deliver rapid, high-impact analytics solutions that directly drive Gartner’s growth strategy, improve hiring quality, and identify and retain top talent.

What you will do: 

  • Creatively solve challenging problems related to retention, attrition forecast, capacity modeling, headcount projections, productivity, and growth.
  • Use insights from quantitative and qualitative data to tell a story and influence outcomes across a wide range of executive stakeholders.
  • Focus on rapid results with high accuracy to enable decision making at senior levels on critical business decisions.
  • Explore and combine data sets using a mix of published products and ad-hoc wrangling techniques.
  • Proactively partner with business, HR Leaders, and Functional Centers of Excellence to understand business issues, proactively identify solutions, analyze data and develop insights that drive action.
  • Align the People Analytics product roadmaps to business priorities .
  • Prioritize product features to maximize measurable business value. Measure expected and realized business value quarterly.
  • Ensure product teams, data engineering, and data science teams understand business needs and prioritize product features to maximize measurable business value.
  • Maintain relationships and lead meetings to ensure planning, prioritization, and visibility to all projects and product enhancements.

What you will need: 

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
  • 10 years of experience in analytics.
  • Strong knowledge of HR business processes and systems
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative business analytical skills, including ability to turn analysis into actionable recommendations with measurable business impact
  • Problem solver, inquisitive, resourceful, organized, growth mindset, customer focused
  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams across all levels of the organization and work collaboratively in a matrixed environment
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • A bias for action, including balancing tradeoffs, a willingness to roll up their sleeves and do what it takes to get things done
  • Ability to clearly and succinctly communicate with senior leadership to drive decisions
  • Strong Python and SQL data analytics skills. Experience with Databricks and PowerBI or comparable tools preferred.

Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work .

What do we offer?

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.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 116,000 USD - 164,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.

Gartner is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling Human Resources at 1 (203) 964-0096 or by sending an email to ApplicantAccommodations@gartner.com .

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Salary : $116,000 - $164,000

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