University Marketing: Marketing Analytics and Research Specialist

Eau Claire, WI (Hybrid)

$50K/yr – $65K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Owns the marketing analytics function, building dashboards, performing data-driven analyses across marketing, enrollment, and institutional initiatives, and guiding strategy through actionable insights.

  • Develops dashboards and reports that translate data into actionable insights.
  • Partners with stakeholders to optimize marketing effectiveness and drive decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develops, maintains, and communicates marketing analytics dashboards, reports, and performance measurement tools to support data-informed decision making across marketing, enrollment, and institutional marketing initiatives
  • Analyzes marketing, enrollment, audience, website, campaign, and engagement data to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and actionable recommendations
  • Build and continuously enhance the University's marketing analytics capability by establishing reporting frameworks, performance measurement standards, dashboards, processes, and best practices that support long-term organizational effectiveness
  • Supports continuous optimization of marketing strategies, campaigns, tactics, messaging, channels, and audience targeting through performance analysis and insight development
  • Partners with marketing team members and stakeholders to evaluate marketing effectiveness, establish performance metrics, and improve outcomes through data-informed recommendations
  • Synthesizes and communicates analytics findings through reports, presentations, dashboards, and consultations that translate complex information into actionable insights
  • Develops and promotes reporting standards, performance measurement frameworks, analytics best practices, and data governance processes
  • Collaborates with marketing, enrollment, and institutional stakeholders to identify analytics, reporting, and decision-support needs and contributes to strategic planning efforts
  • Conducts primary and secondary market and consumer research to support audience understanding, and inform marketing strategy development, institutional planning, and decision making
  • Collects, analyzes, and interprets qualitative and quantitative research data and communicates findings and recommendations to stakeholders

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, market research, business, communications, statistics, data analytics, social sciences, or a related field.
  • A minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in marketing analytics, data analytics, market research, consumer insights, business intelligence, or a closely related field.
  • Experience collecting, integrating, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data from multiple sources to support business, marketing, enrollment, or organizational decision making.
  • Experience developing dashboards, reports, data visualizations, or presentations that translate complex information into actionable insights and recommendations.
  • Experience evaluating performance metrics and identifying opportunities to optimize marketing effectiveness and organizational outcomes.
  • Knowledge of research methodologies, survey design, data collection techniques, and analytical best practices.
  • Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously.
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Preferred

  • Experience building or significantly expanding marketing analytics, reporting, research, or business intelligence capabilities, including developing new processes, dashboards, frameworks, or measurement strategies.
  • Experience partnering with stakeholders to translate business needs into analytics, reporting, and research solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships and serve as a trusted advisor across functional teams and organizational levels.
  • Experience analyzing and optimizing marketing, communications, enrollment, or audience engagement efforts using data and performance metrics.
  • Experience with analytics, visualization, survey, CRM, or reporting platforms such as Google Analytics, Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI, Qualtrics, Slate, Salesforce, or similar tools.
  • Experience conducting audience, consumer, or marketing research, including surveys, focus groups, interviews, competitive analysis, or audience segmentation.
  • Experience developing dashboards, performance measurement frameworks, and reporting standards.
  • Experience supporting strategic planning, marketing strategy development, or organizational decision making through analytics and audience insights.
  • Experience presenting analytics findings and strategic recommendations to leadership or executive stakeholders to inform decision making.
  • Experience working in higher education, enrollment management, marketing, communications, or a similarly complex stakeholder environment.
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UWEC Professional Sales Center

The Center for Sales and Sales Management at UW-Eau Claire prepares you to be a successful sales professional or sales manager.Our faculty help you develop your analytic and communication skills as well as your knowledge of marketing and sales. They've been there - they've experienced sales presentations, being told no and closing big deals. Their real-world sales experience and proven records of success give you valuable insight into the potential of your sales career.In addition to course work and practical applications of skills in real-world situations, you'll also have the opportunity to work on community service projects, gain an internship, compete in sales competitions and participate in student organizations with a sales and marketing focus such as Pi Sigma Epsilon (PSE), American Marketing Association (AMA) and Collegiate DECA.

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