Consulting Associate Director - Public Sector UK&I

Associate Director, Public Sector Consulting

Gartner Consulting - UK&I

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 a digitally native consultancy, Gartner Consulting brings a unique advantage: the ability to directly leverage Gartner’s research and insights to inform the most important strategic decisions our clients face.

About the Role

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

Senior Client Advisory

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

You may currently be an Engagement Manager, Principal, Associate Director, or Senior Manager within a consulting firm, advisory environment, public sector consultancy, or government digital/IT transformation function.

Consulting & Strategy Capability

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

Experience in one or more of the following areas:

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.

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Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), 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?

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. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.

It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.

What do we offer?

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.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

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