Vice President, Analytics

At Spectrum Science, our mission—connecting humankind to its best healthlife—comes to life through a culture rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and innovation. We believe breakthrough ideas happen when diverse perspectives are embraced and people are empowered to challenge what’s possible.

Join our team of award-winning health-focused experts across advertising, clinical trial experience, communications, consulting, media, medical communications, and patient engagement. Together, we create the momentum that moves science, brands, and careers forward.

About the Role

The Vice President, Analytics will lead communications measurement and insight development across earned, social, digital, influencer, corporate reputation, patient advocacy, and stakeholder engagement programs. This role partners with strategy, creative, media, and client service teams to translate data into recommendations that shape strategy, demonstrate impact, and strengthen client relationships.

As a senior leader, this person will advance how Spectrum defines, measures, and communicates engagement opportunities and program performance. The ideal candidate is a consultative partner and people leader who can turn complex data into compelling stories for executive audiences while developing a high-performing analytics team.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead measurement strategy for integrated communications programs across earned, social, digital, influencer, reputation, disease awareness, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement initiatives.
• Partner with account, strategy, media, social, creative, and client leads to define KPIs, reporting approaches, and measurement plans aligned to business objectives.
• Translate performance data, audience insights, media intelligence, social listening, and competitive analysis into clear recommendations and executive-ready presentations.
• Oversee analytics workstreams from data collection and analysis through dashboard/report development, quality control, and client delivery.
• Develop measurement frameworks, benchmarks, scorecards, and reporting standards that connect communications activity to outcomes.
• Use media and social listening to identify conversation trends, audience behaviors, white space opportunities, reputational considerations, and emerging issues.
• Serve as a senior analytics advisor to clients, facilitating data-driven discussions and helping teams determine what actions to take next.
• Support new business and organic growth by shaping analytics approaches, drafting measurement scopes, estimating resourcing, and contributing to proposals and statements of work.
• Manage, mentor, and develop analytics team members across measurement strategy, insight storytelling, data visualization, and client partnership.
• Stay current on analytics tools, methodologies, platform changes, AI-enabled measurement approaches, and privacy considerations.

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, data analytics, statistics, social sciences, public health, or a related field; advanced degree a plus.
• 8+ years of analytics, research, insights, measurement, or communications strategy experience within an agency, healthcare communications, public relations, corporate communications, or related environment.
• Strong understanding of earned media analysis, social listening, digital performance, influencer analytics, audience research, reputation tracking, and integrated campaign reporting.
• Ability to connect data to communications strategy, client business goals, message optimization, audience engagement, and program effectiveness.
• Experience developing dashboards, scorecards, measurement frameworks, reporting templates, and client presentations.
• Proficiency with tools such as Brandwatch, Meltwater, Cision, Talkwalker, Sprinklr, Google Analytics, social platform analytics, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex data for senior clients and internal leadership.
• Strong consultative presence, business judgment, and ability to influence cross-functional teams through data-driven recommendations.
• Experience managing, mentoring, and developing analytics or research professionals.
• Healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotech, advocacy, or science communications experience strongly preferred.

The anticipated salary range for this position will be $150,000 – $185,000 Salary is based on job-related factors such as: years of relevant experience, qualifications and/or certifications. Spectrum reserves the right to modify this pay range at any given time.

We want to ensure our employees are living their best (health and professional) life and offer a variety of benefits and perks which support our flexible work environment.

• All positions are remote friendly. At Spectrum, you choose where you work. We are a hybrid work environment with options to work in one of our three offices (D.C., New York, and Chicago), remotely from anywhere in the United States, or a combination.
• No matter where you work, you’ll benefit from the monthly cell phone reimbursement.
• Flexible time off. Take the time you need in addition to company holidays, voting time, jury duty and bereavement. We also offer a Sabbatical Program after 7 years of service.
• 13 weeks paid Parental Leave, inclusive of adoption and foster care placement.
• Continuous learning and development through Greatest Potential Self (proprietary talent program), tuition reimbursement programs, and in-house 1:1 coaching with access to talent and productivity-based assessments.
• Bring your friends to work at Spectrum and earn a generous referral bonus.
• Medical concierge service to assist with scheduling appointments, finding care, estimating and resolving claim issues, etc.
• Thorough onboarding including accessible conversations with leadership.
• 401k with company match and 1:1 Financial Coaching and Education.
• Wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, as well as science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools through Headspace.

Spectrum is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Spectrum is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, contact

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