Consulting Associate Director - Public Sector UK&I in Egham

Gartner’s Consulting business is an extension of Gartner’s industry leading IT Research. From CIOs to senior leaders in business and government, we help Gartner clients translate insight into action and achieve their mission critical priorities. Leveraging the breadth and depth of Gartner’s research, Consulting continues to grow rapidly, offering significant opportunity to deepen client impact and expand our footprint. Public Sector Consulting sits at the heart of this mission. We help senior leaders across government and public services make confident, high value decisions on how technology can transform their organisations.

As an Associate Director, you will advise senior leaders across UK & Ireland Public Sector organisations on technology strategy, digital transformation, operating models, and execution assurance. You will lead complex engagements and build trusted client relationships. This is a highly visible role for an experienced consultant who combines strong strategy fundamentals, technology insight, public sector expertise and client advisory credibility.

What You Will Do

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives across central government, local government, healthcare, education, defence, and wider public sector organisations.
• Shape and deliver technology and digital strategies aligned to organisational goals such as growth, efficiency, resilience, citizen experience, and innovation.
• Provide technology foresight and market intelligence, grounded in Gartner’s global research, benchmarks, and best practices.
• Lead the delivery of complex consulting engagements, including:
• Enterprise IT and digital strategies and roadmaps
• Digital, data, and technology operating models
• Cloud and applications modernisation
• Enterprise architecture, governance, and decision frameworks
• Digital government and public service transformation
• Programme assurance and value realisation
• Support clients in achieving measurable outcomes, including value realisation, cost optimisation, and execution confidence.

Programme Assurance & Governance

• Advise on the design and improvement of IT governance models, organisational structures, and sourcing strategies across diverse operating environments.
• Provide independent challenge and assurance at key programme and investment decision points.
• Support major transformation initiatives through benefits tracking, delivery assurance, and risk management.

What You Bring

• Strong grounding in management consulting and technology strategy and transformation.
• Experience leading client engagements end to end, from problem definition through delivery.
• Confidence operating with senior executive stakeholders in complex organisations.

Technology & Transformation Expertise

• CIO and executive advisory services
• Enterprise and IT strategy
• End to end technology enabled transformation
• Digital government and public service transformation
• Applications modernisation
• Cloud transformation
• Data, analytics, and AI strategy
• Value realisation, benefits management, or programme assurance
• Sourcing, vendor management, and contract optimisation

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• High standards of integrity, discretion, and professional judgement.
• Contribute to a high performance, inclusive, and collaborative consulting culture aligned with Gartner values.

At Gartner, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where individuals with different experiences, perspectives, and career paths can succeed. We welcome talented professionals from a variety of backgrounds and recognize that expertise can be built through many different personal and professional journeys.

Associates are supported through a range of employee resource groups and communities, including Asians & Pacific Islanders (API) at Gartner, the Black Employee Network (BEN), the Collective Abilities Network (CAN), Mosaic at Gartner, Pride at Gartner, Unidos at Gartner, Veterans at Gartner, and Women at Gartner, helping to foster connection, support, belonging, and professional growth across the organization.

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.

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