Sr Director Analyst – SAP Security Strategy (Remote - Europe)

This is an individual contributor role, based remotely in North America or Western Europe.

About the role

Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have insights, market predictions, and best practices for a broad range of world-leading organizations. As a Senior Director within Gartner’s Business and Technology Insights (BTI) group, you will establish yourself as a credible voice in the application security space at local, regional, and global levels. Utilizing exceptional research and analytical skills, you will produce pragmatic and provocative insights which Gartner clients consume and apply to propel their business toward key objectives. They are a trusted source of advice for clients, reinforcing Gartner’s value every day by engaging them via in-person meetings, virtual meetings, sales support visits and Gartner conferences to discuss complex client challenges and offer appropriate recommendations.

What you will do

Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged “must-have insights” content

Develop new insights and ideas through thought leadership and offer compelling, actionable approaches to client's needs and requests that accelerate the client's ability to act

Develop in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of a client’s barriers or overall needs and reframe thinking to drive strategy forward

Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing Insights positions across a team of analysts

Bring provocative, independent insights to Gartner leaders that can evolve the course of a research agenda

Research, analyze and predict market trends and shifts to provide clients and vendors with actionable insights

Provide clients and prospects with actionable advice aligned to their designated content area via virtual or face-to-face interactions

Create and deliver high value presentation materials on and off stage for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings

Support BTI and Sales: Provide sales support serving as voice of the market to help Insights teams create content and to drive engagement with clients to make progress against their critical priorities to grow their business

Provide high quality and timely content peer review

Build credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner insights, methodology and strategy

Actively participate in innovation, ideation, and research discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the Insights community

Identify research process improvements or develop new processes that help the team and BTI provide excellent service delivery

Be a mentor and a coach by supporting more junior team members

Be client-centric while actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions

Hot Topics of Discussion with Client CIOs and Heads of IT

How to create a security compliance policy for ERPs vendors to adhere to?

How to create a risk assessment program to evaluate ERPs vendors?

How to develop metrics to measure success?

How to create an application security policy that achieves an enterprise’s overall application and business strategies?

Identifying strengths and weaknesses of the major application vendors (i.e., SAP, Salesforce, Workday and Oracle) security tools

Have a good understanding of the capabilities of security tools from 3rd party vendors that are compatible with mega vendor applications which enable vulnerability identification

How to build and operate an application security vulnerability testing program.