Freelance Manager, Analytics

Freelance Manager, Analytics – Golin Chicago

Temporary freelance manager, analyst position requiring 15-20 hours weekly through December.

• Support project leadership by managing individual work streams 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.
• Use Excel to analyze media coverage for trends and patterns that inform recommended actions.
• Compile, synthesize, and analyze data sets, create reports, and present findings to the client.
• Use Sprinklr, Talkwalker, Meltwater, and other tools to set up dashboards and monitor and analyze results on a regular cadence.
• Support analytics projects by executing analysis, contributing to presentations, and working collaboratively with analysts and account leads.
• Demonstrate masterful storytelling: mine and synthesize varied data for omnichannel views and develop powerful presentations with concise, impactful narratives tied to business objectives.
• Stay up to date on emerging trends in earned, social, media, and consumer landscape.
• Analyze earned content for trends and patterns that inform recommended actions.
• Take initiative to proactively identify and solve challenges, collaborating with account leads to propose new opportunities and optimize work streams.

• 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 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 with analytics platforms, translating data to measure campaign success and providing data‑backed recommendations.
• Strong presentation, problem‑solving, verbal and written communication, organizational and time‑management skills.
• Proficiency with industry tools such as Talkwalker, Brandwatch, Sprinklr, Similar Web Pro, Creator
  
  IQ, Com Score, MOZ, and others.
• Critical thinking and adaptability to change.
• Highly motivated and eager to learn.

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

Hourly rate: $35 – $53 hour.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.