Managing Consultant, Analytics

Golin Ketchum; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Golin Ketchum is seeking a Managing Consultant, Analytics, in Chicago. The role leads analytics projects, manages client relationships, and delivers data-driven insights that shape strategy. Candidates should have extensive experience in research and analytics and strong leadership skills.

The position is full-time, hybrid, with a focus on developing innovative methodologies and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact for clients.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of research, analytics and/or media analysis experience.
• Strong orientation toward client service and teamwork.
• Management experience and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong statistical, writing and public speaking/presentation skills.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with client and account teams and communicate with clients regularly.
• Oversee and manage all aspects of a project largely independently, including billing and growth.
• Develop original, large scale quantitative and qualitative research studies and oversee data collection and analysis.
• Develop research, analytics and measurement proposals.
• Analyze findings and present results to clients and account teams.

Skills

Research analytics

Client service

Team leadership

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Hybrid

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Full time

R16695

Agency:

Golin Ketchum

Job Function:

Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction:

Data Science and Analytics

Job Description:

Golin Ketchum is looking for a Managing Consultant, Analytics, to join our team!

Golin Ketchum is the most awarded public relations agency of the decade. We create change that matters for our clients and our people. The kind of change that earns attention and shapes culture to build business.

Formed in 2026 from the merger of two iconic PR agencies, Golin Ketchum combines fearless creative and strategic excellence, fueled by Omnicom’s industry-leading data and AI solutions, to uncover powerful insights and execute work that builds and protects the world’s greatest companies.

With specialized expertise across consumer and brands, corporate affairs, healthcare, technology, and food, agriculture and nutrition, we deliver integrated, high-impact communications services at scale.

At Golin Ketchum, culture matters. We are fiercely ambitious yet fundamentally kind and collaborate obsessively with the best clients in the world.

What You’ll Do:

Do you enjoy telling stories through data? Interested in solving client challenges with data? This is a perfect role for an experienced researcher or specialist who thrives working in a fast-paced environment. The person coming into this role should have expertise in original survey research and be able to lead a team and manage projects from start to finish, as well as independently own programs.

• Developing relationships with client and account teams. This includes regular and proactive one-on-one interaction with local account teams, and direct correspondence with account teams and clients
• Overseeing and managing all aspects of a project largely independently. From the day-to-day work, to client relationships, to account relationships, billing and growth
• Development of original, large scale/global qualitative and quantitative research studies, including writing questionnaires/interview/focus group guides, overseeing data collection vendors, and analyzing the results etc.
• Development of research, analytics and measurement proposals
• Analysis and reporting of findings in a way that tells a concise and clear story with the data and provides answers to the client’s main questions/objectives; Presentation of results to account team and client
• Serving as a specialist and advisor in research and analysis, to include:
• Staying up to date with trends, tools and techniques and counseling clients, account teams and other research team members on methodologies, tools and best practices
• Participating in or driving analytics projects and initiatives
• Developing new methodologies, reports or product offerings to meet existing client needs and to drive new business
• Determining the best methodologies and tools to use to solve client challenges and deliver impact to their business
• Work in collaboration with other specialty teams within the agency to assess and create successful social, digital and paid programs for the client.

What You Have:

• 6+ years of research, analytics and/or media analysis experience; advanced degree in a relevant field desired but not necessary
• Strong orientation toward client service and teamwork
• Strong business acumen and understanding of the communications landscape
• Management experience
• The ability to work on multiple projects concurrently
• Strong statistical, writing, and public speaking/presentation skills
• Strong understanding original/primary quantitative research and statistics
• Research supplier/vendor/budget management experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree preferred

Golin Ketchum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Golin Ketchum recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

$100,000 - 120,000

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