Global Analyst Relations Program Lead

UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group); Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 91,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Global Industry Analyst Relations Program Manager to lead and scale engagement with top analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC. You will drive end-to-end submissions, craft evidence-based narratives, and coordinate across product, development, marketing, and sales to strengthen UKG’s analyst positioning.

You’ll develop messaging, manage deadlines, and identify customer stories to bolster evaluations, while exploring AI-assisted improvements to AR workflows and reporting

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in analyst relations, operations, or project management.
• Experience working with major industry analyst firms such as Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and others
• Ability to create and analyze data-driven reports and dashboards using Power BI or other similar solutions
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to prepare compelling content for analyst engagements
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), and familiarity with collaboration tools

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end management of analyst evaluation submissions
• Develop clear, differentiated, and evidence-based narratives that align with evaluation criteria and emphasize key market differentiators
• Conduct kick-off meetings to align internal resources, review evaluation criteria and set timeline expectation
• Drive cross-functional coordination to gather inputs from product, engineering, marketing, customer success, competitive intelligence and sales
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and strategic alignment across all submission materials
• Establish and enforce submission best practices, templates, and review processes
• Manage tight deadlines and complex deliverables across multiple concurrent evaluations
• Continuously improve submission quality through retrospectives, analyst feedback, and competitive insights
• Engage with agentic AI tools to facilitate the evaluation process, ensuring accuracy while increasing throughput
• Prepare relevant briefing documents for briefing/demo sessions with analysts
• Identify customer stories, case studies and references to be used to strengthen position in evaluations
• Translate product capabilities, vision, and customer outcomes into compelling analyst-facing content
• Partner with product marketing and demand gen to refine positioning and messaging
• Ensure consistency between submissions, briefings, demos, and published research
• Create collateral to be used by sales for each licensed report
• Track and analyze performance in analyst reports and evaluations
• Deliver insights and recommendations to improve positioning and perception
• Monitor competitor performance and industry trends within analyst research
• Continuously assess and improve AR workflows, processes, and tools to increase operational efficiency and effectiveness
• Assist in identifying how Global AR can use AI to improve internal processes as well as for analyst briefings and demos
• Identify opportunities for automation in reporting and tracking analyst engagements and integrate more data-driven insights into the AR function

Skills

Analyst relations

Power BI

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing or related field

Tools

ARInsight

Microsoft Office Suite

AI tools

Job description

UKG is seeking a Global Industry Analyst Relations Program Manager to lead and scale engagement with top analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC. You will drive end-to-end submissions, craft evidence-based narratives, and coordinate across product, development, marketing, and sales to strengthen UKG’s analyst positioning.

You’ll develop messaging, manage deadlines, and identify customer stories to bolster evaluations, while exploring AI-assisted improvements to AR workflows and reporting