Director, IT Strategy Consulting, HHS-Medicaid
About the role
Gartner’s Consulting business is an extension of Gartner’s industry-leading IT Insights. We help clients translate insights into transformational actions and achieve their mission-critical priorities. Leveraging the breadth of Gartner’s resources, Consulting is growing rapidly, with unlimited potential to continue expanding our client base.
Technology Strategy Consulting
We help the C-suite make the right decisions based on how technology can transform their organizations. Our consulting team directly leverages the full power of Gartner’s research and insights to address the most important strategic decisions any business will make. We deliver value to clients in areas such as IT Strategy Consulting, Benchmarking, Analytics and Optimization. Typically, this helps Gartner’s clients to execute on their strategic priorities, including: Digital Acceleration and Transformation, Enterprise Application Enablement, Big Data and Analytics, Applications Rationalization & Optimization, Cloud Strategy and Migration, Sourcing and Ecosystem Optimization, Contract and Cost Optimization, Security and Risk Management.
What you’ll do
- Our Consulting Directors are responsible for high-level project delivery and oversight along with client relationship management.
- You will manage teams and advise clients at the highest strategic level on both big-picture and tactical matters, focusing on how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes in Health and Human Services agencies with a strong focus in Medicaid and Child Welfare.
Key responsibilities
- Experience supporting state HHS agencies, especially with federally funded systems modernization (including MMIS, “eligibility of enrollment”, CCWIS, EHRs).
- Drive thought leadership and client relationship management, acting as a trusted advisor.
- Oversee strategy and implementation phases, ensuring deliverables meet quality standards.
- Manage multiple priorities and inspire high-performing teams.
- Hands-on delivery of large, complex projects.
- Create, review, and present deliverables.
- Analytical skills and ability to develop frameworks for junior staff.
- Understanding of vendor landscape and state modernization efforts.
- Exposure to other HHS programs.
- Business development experience.
What you’ll need
- Deep expertise in Medicaid, Child Welfare and/or public sector health IT programs (technical and programmatic).
- Strong client presence and ability to lead/manage teams.
- Experience within a well-regarded management or technology consultancy in project delivery and business development.
- Ability to lead large projects and teams, combining technical expertise with strategic vision.
- Comfortable influencing and building trust-based relationships with senior executives.
- Track record in achieving/exceeding revenue targets preferred.
- Intellectual curiosity and creativity in developing solutions to client challenges.
- Coachable, adaptable, and committed to continuous improvement.
Who are we?
At Gartner, we guide the leaders who shape the world. Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities. Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 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?
This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work. Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. 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.
What do we offer?
- World-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.
- A hybrid work environment, providing flexibility and support for you to thrive.
- Reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 168,000 USD - 199,000 USD.
- Annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan.
- 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.