Data & Research Manager, Insights & Digital Practice

Location: Greater London

Data & Research Manager, Insights & Digital Practice

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Location:

London, Hybrid

Salary band: £40,000 - £45,000

Help us Shape the future

Madano is committed to building a better world through intelligent and creative communications. We work with clients who are solving the major challenges of our time through science and technology – helping them tell their story, make the right connections, change attitudes, and influence behaviours.

Our people are highly motivated and engaged, always encouraged to make their voices heard and given the opportunity to progress. And while we deal with serious issues, we make sure we don’t take ourselves too seriously along the way. Questioning accepted wisdom, always looking for alternative solutions, ours is a culture where everyone pulls together to make a lasting difference.

Who We Work With

From pioneering start-ups to global organisations, our clients are united by one thing: they’re solving tomorrow’s problems today. And they trust us to tell their story, engage their stakeholders, and build lasting reputations.

How We Work

• Deep sector expertise – in energy, health (especially pharmaceuticals and life sciences), tech, and beyond
• Data-driven insight – because decisions should be grounded in evidence
• Creative communications – that move hearts and minds
• A clear purpose – to build a better, more informed world

Why It Matters

Because the way we talk about big issues—from net zero to AI to healthcare—shapes how society responds to them. And at Madano, we believe that better communication leads to better outcomes.

The role

As a Data and Research Manager, you will help clients make better decisions by turning data into clear, strategic stories. You’ll work across bespoke communications projects, predominantly within the healthcare sector, combining strong data skills with a consulting mindset: understanding client challenges, shaping analysis, and communicating insights with impact.

Key Responsibilities Client consulting and storytelling

• Work with clients to clarify objectives and shape analytical approaches to data‑led projects.
• Turn complex findings into clear, persuasive narratives that support communications strategy.
• Present insights confidently and build trusted, long‑term client relationships.

Research design and analysis planning

• Develop analysis plans tailored to each project, including data needs and methods.
• Shape data collection using communications, media, social and stakeholder datasets.
• Combine quantitative and qualitative inputs into a coherent set of insights.

Data analysis and insight development

• Use Python and/or SQL to prepare and analyse datasets in line with project goals.
• Assemble datasets from various data sources, databases and APIs.
• Apply appropriate statistical techniques to support segmentation, comparison and evaluation.
• Ensure outputs are robust, well‑documented, with easy‑to‑understand outputs for clients to act on.

Project delivery and collaboration

• Lead analytical work streams and consulting projects.
• Collaborate with colleagues across Insights, Digital, Creative and sector‑specialist teams, such as our healthcare and net‑zero focussed teams.
• Contribute to improving tools, methods and ways of working within the team.

About You Core data skills

• Experience using data to support client decision‑making, ideally in a consultancy or commercial research setting.
• Self‑sufficient in Python or SQL.
• Comfortable working with structured and unstructured data, ideally in media, social or communications contexts.
• Sound knowledge of statistical techniques and how to apply them pragmatically to client questions.

Market research capabilities

• Experience of managing projects.
• Strong storytelling skills, with the ability to distill analysis into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Excellent visual communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to build rapport and communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders.

Desirable

• Survey analysis experience.
• Experience and comfort working with large language models (LLMs) and/or natural language processing (NLP) for data extraction.
• Experience in the healthcare…