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Director Analyst, Sourcing, Contracts and Negotiations – Software Licensing/Salesforce
Location
United States
Posted
18 hours ago
Salary
$148K - $175.5K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director Analyst, Sourcing, Contracts and Negotiations – Software Licensing/Salesforce
Gartner
Role Description Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have insights, market predictions, and best practices for a broad range of world-leading organizations. This Director role is focused on sourcing, contracts, and negotiations for enterprise software and SaaS licensing, with deep emphasis on the Salesforce ecosystem. A Director serves as a leader within Gartner’s Business and Technology Insights (BTI) group. Utilizing research and analytical skills, a Director plays a significant role in producing 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 “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 sourcing strategy, contract structure, negotiation planning, licensing optimization, and software/SaaS commercial decision making 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 in-person or remote 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 with a diverse, global team of colleagues 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. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree preferred. - 12+ years of relevant field or industry experience. - 8+ years work experience in SaaS/software contract negotiations, technology procurement, category management, vendor management, or software asset management within a buying organization, outsourcer, consulting firm, or reseller. - 5+ years hands-on experience negotiating Salesforce renewals (including deals within last 12 months) with exposure ideally to such areas as Sales/Service Cloud, Gen AI licensing and negotiation (Agentforce, Einstein), Tableau CRM, Success Plans, and industry clouds (e.g. Financial Services Cloud, Education Cloud, Marketing Clouds). - Subject matter expertise in Salesforce licensing with particular focus on commercial aspects, software, and cloud services market trends. - Experience with software license compliance risk assessment, management, and/or mitigation in a software audit context, particularly with Salesforce, is desired. - Experience negotiating with and managing other major vendors (e.g., AWS, Google, SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, or ServiceNow) is desired. - Executive presence; able to immediately establish credibility with executives and additional stakeholders. - Strong organizational skills; ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high-quality deliverables. - Demonstrable excellence in research and writing ability. - Strong written and verbal proficiency, analytical and presentation skills; ability to engage clients and respond effectively to questions. - Proficient in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending conclusions to client challenges. - Strong communication skills - able to explain complex concepts concisely and simply. - Subject matter expertise; comfortable presenting at large and small-scale speaking engagements. - Strong business and financial acumen. - Deep knowledge of the global and competitive landscape within subject area as well as the interplay in that market. - Ability to work independently, while also being intrinsically motivated to collaborate across teams and support the workflow of others, in a multicultural global team. - Learning agile and adept with navigating highly matrixed environments. - Ability to represent Gartner's research methodology and strategies effectively at all levels. - Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% (where applicable). Benefits - World-class benefits. - Highly competitive compensation. - Disproportionate rewards for top performers. - Flexibility to work virtually when productive and get together with colleagues in a vibrant community. - Generous PTO. - 401k match up to $7,200 per year. - Opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
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