Manager, Communications Research & Insights
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$95.70-122.65 Hourly
up to $122.65 per hour
Start Date:
ASAP
About the Role
Our client is seeking a Manager, Communications Research & Insights to join their Global Communications & Public Affairs team. This role is focused on delivering data-driven analysis and insights across media channels to inform communications strategy, measure impact, and identify risks and opportunities.
Your expertise will help guide communications teams with actionable insights drawn from earned media coverage across news, social, broadcast, and print.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and analyze media coverage related to company announcements, industry developments, and emerging issues (e.g., regulatory rulings, AI tools).
- Produce written reports and insights for communications teams, translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Track the impact of both long-term reputation initiatives and immediate events/issues.
- Provide advisory input to communications teams, highlighting urgent issues, key outlets driving coverage, and potential risks or opportunities.
- Utilize industry-standard tools and methodologies for media monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
Day-to-Day Work
- Analyze media coverage of key announcements and issues.
- Produce concise written reports and insights for internal comms teams.
- Monitor long-term reputation initiatives and assess immediate impact of events/issues.
- Provide strategic input based on media data to inform communications decisions.
Requirements:
- Previous experience at large PR/communications agencies
- Strong analytical skills, bridging journalistic/editorial insights with quantitative analysis.
- Exceptional written communication skills with the ability to distill complex datasets into actionable recommendations.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with short timelines.
Must-have:
- Expertise in media monitoring, Boolean queries, and earned media analysis.
- Familiarity with tracking journalist/editorial coverage.
- Experience producing insights and reports that inform communications strategy.
Tools:
- Brandwatch, Cision, Meltwater, Talkwalker
Nice-to-have:
- SQL
Client Description
A giant in the Tech Industry, this company’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they do—from how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.
A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:
Expanding Opportunity – Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.
Protecting Users – Keeping billions of people safer online.
Including all Voices – Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.
Responding to Crisis – Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.
Advancing Sustainability – Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission — to foster sustainability at scale.
Are you ready to join the journey?
Why work with AQUENT? Check out our awesome benefits: https://aquent.com/talent/talent-benefits
Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
#LI-OL1
#LI-Hybrid