.About the role:Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have research, market predictions, and best practices for a broad range of world-leading organizations. A Director possesses a keen eye for identifying gaps, problems, and solutions within their market. They use their knowledge to help clients make better decisions, solve complex issues, and execute new practices that propel clients' businesses toward critical objectives. A Director publishes these insights as pragmatic and provocative research. Additionally, they reinforce Gartner's value every day by engaging clients via in-person and virtual meetings, sales support visits, Gartner conferences, and industry events.What you will do:Create high-quality, clear, actionable, "must-have research" content based on research best practices and methodologies in financial services in the topic of Data & Analytics. Specific focus areas will include strategy, business value, best practices, market trends, technologies, and vendors of our target audience including CIOs and product leaders at vendors. Produce innovative, thought-leading, impactful, analytically-deep, fact-based research. Serve as a leading authority on Insurance advanced analytics topics, including understanding D&A use cases, setting up pilots and scaling initiatives, ensuring proper governance of D&A tools, navigating the technology landscape, and connecting to day-to-day process improvement and wholesale transformation. Provide in-depth analysis based on needs determined by Gartner topic leaders, client input, collaboration with other Gartner analysts, and personal experience in the areas of Advanced Analytics and Data Science to advise CIOs. Stay abreast of broader research and trends in data analytics methods with application in insurance. Provide current and prospective clients with actionable advice via virtual and face-to-face interactions. Act as an internal advisor on how D&A practices, technologies, and approaches are impacting the insurance function. Create and deliver presentation materials for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings. Build your personal brand as a functional expert to drive Gartner's research, methodology, and strategy. Provide high-quality and timely research peer review. Provide mentorship and support to team members. Actively participate in innovation, ideation, and research discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the analytics & AI research community.What you will need:Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree preferred. 10+ years' experience within Data Analytics relative to insurance organization experience with increasing scope and responsibility. Experience with the deployment of advanced analytics capabilities to support short-, mid-, or long-term decision making