Freelance Manager, Analytics

Temporary Freelance, Manager, Analyst

Golin Chicago is currently looking for Freelance, Manager, Analyst to join our team. We are looking for someone who can join us in a Freelance capacity and can commit to up to 15-20 hours weekly through December.

 

Want to “Go All In” with us? Here are the details: 

 

What you’ll do

• Support project leadership by managing individual workstreams to deliver high-quality work on time and within budget
• Serve as a creative, analytical mind on the team to provide strategic recommendations for developing and improving digital and social media campaigns
• Be a data journalist by uncovering strategic findings and insights using a range of digital analytics techniques, such as social listening, to help support business objectives, advance storytelling, and drive engagement
• Use Excel to the max, analyzing media coverage for trends and patterns that inform recommended actions
• Compile, synthesize, and analyze data sets, as well as create reports and present to the client. 
• Analyze content for trends and patterns that inform recommended actions 
• Use Sprinklr, Talkwalker, Meltwater, and other tools, for setting up dashboards, and monitoring and analyzing results on a regular cadence (daily/monthly/quarterly) with minimal supervision. 
• Support analytics projects by executing analysis and contributing to presentations, working collaboratively with analysts and account leads
• Demonstrate masterful storytelling: mining and synthesizing varied sets of data for omnichannel views, displaying data visually and creatively, developing powerful presentations with concise, impactful narratives and timely, actionable learnings tied to business objectives
• Stay up to date on all platforms and spot emerging trends in the earned, social, media, and consumer landscape; be a pop culture junkie
• Analyze earned content for trends and patterns that inform recommended actions
• Think strategically and be insightful with the ability to tell a story that converts data into actionable insights
• Be a creative, analytical mind on the team, supporting the development of strategic recommendations across earned and social media campaigns
• Understand client background and needs, including general business strategy, industry issues, products and services, key customers and competitors in the marketplace
• Take initiative to proactively identify and solve challenges, collaborating with account leads to proposing new opportunities and optimizing workstreams

 

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree and a demonstrated passion for insights and analytics  
• 3 – 5 years’ experience, preferably within a Public Relations, Market Research, or Advertising agency  
• Experience working with data visualization tools and creative ways to display information   
• Keen eye for data trends and the ability to investigate and articulate factors that may account for these trends   
• Experience working with a variety of analytics platforms, translating data to measure campaign success, and providing data-backed recommendations  
• Ability to interpret data and provide strategic insight to answer business needs  
• Traditional, social listening, and media measurement experience + deep Excel experience   
• Strong presentation and problem-solving skills 
• Strong verbal and written communication, organizational and time-management  
• Experience with industry tools (TalkWalker, Brandwatch, Sprinklr, SimilarWeb Pro, CreatorIQ, ComScore, MOZ) and others  
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills  
• Able to prioritize and comfortable with and adaptive to change  
• Highly motivated and eager to learn  

 

Please note: We are open to considering qualified remote candidates in other locations.