Data & Research Manager, Insights & Digital Practice
Madano
London, England, United Kingdom
Science / R&D / Research, Information Technology, Analyst
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 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
We combine:
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 I&D practice helps clients set strategy, deliver their objectives and demonstrate value. We combine behaviour change theory, innovative quantitative and qualitative research, and data science to help businesses and organisations achieve and demonstrate impact.
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
Core data skills
Our recruitment process can consist of virtual interviews, in person interviews, and written tasks, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements so that we can accommodate your needs during this process.
We embrace the use of AI across our business and see it as a valuable tool in our work. However, as part of our recruitment process, we ask candidates not to use AI to generate application content or complete written tasks. Submissions may be reviewed using AI detection tools to ensure we can fairly assess each candidate’s own skills and experience. AI use is encouraged once in role.
Our Benefits
As well as the basic salary, great social events and a culture of continual learning, our competitive benefits package includes:
Madano is committed to a policy of equal opportunities and non-discrimination. At all times we aim to recruit, develop and promote the very best people, basing judgement solely on suitability for the job.
We particularly encourage applications from those who are significantly underrepresented in our sector, such as disabled people, ethnic minorities and neurodiverse people.
Privacy Policy
We are committed to transparency about how we collect and use your data, including ensuring we comply with legal obligations relating to data protection. You can view our data privacy policy here and Recruitment Privacy Policy.
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 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
We combine:
- 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
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 I&D practice helps clients set strategy, deliver their objectives and demonstrate value. We combine behaviour change theory, innovative quantitative and qualitative research, and data science to help businesses and organisations achieve and demonstrate impact.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lead analytical workstreams 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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 sector and working with pharmaceutical organisations.
Our recruitment process can consist of virtual interviews, in person interviews, and written tasks, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements so that we can accommodate your needs during this process.
We embrace the use of AI across our business and see it as a valuable tool in our work. However, as part of our recruitment process, we ask candidates not to use AI to generate application content or complete written tasks. Submissions may be reviewed using AI detection tools to ensure we can fairly assess each candidate’s own skills and experience. AI use is encouraged once in role.
Our Benefits
As well as the basic salary, great social events and a culture of continual learning, our competitive benefits package includes:
- 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays (rising to a maximum of 30 days alongside length of service)
- Enhanced employer pension contribution
- Private Medical insurance (for you and your family)
- Income Protection insurance
- Life Assurance at 4x your salary
- Financial support and advice
- Travel insurance (for you and your family)
- An annual wellness benefit of £150
- Four-week sabbatical after every 5 years’ service.
- Some benefits are contingent on successful completion of probation period.
Madano is committed to a policy of equal opportunities and non-discrimination. At all times we aim to recruit, develop and promote the very best people, basing judgement solely on suitability for the job.
We particularly encourage applications from those who are significantly underrepresented in our sector, such as disabled people, ethnic minorities and neurodiverse people.
Privacy Policy
We are committed to transparency about how we collect and use your data, including ensuring we comply with legal obligations relating to data protection. You can view our data privacy policy here and Recruitment Privacy Policy.
About the company
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AVENIR GLOBAL is a Montreal-based holding and management company with an active operations mindset and a hands-on approach to all its investments. A global powerhouse of specialist communications firms, AVENIR GLOBAL has 1,000 staff and offices in 22 locations across Canada, the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, and ranks among the top 25 largest communication firms in the world.
In Canada, AVENIR GLOBAL owns NATIONAL Public Relations, the country’s leading public relations firm, servicing clients across a wide range of sectors, and Time & Space, a leading insights, media strategy, and execution agency. In the United States, AVENIR GLOBAL owns SHIFT Communications, a data-driven integrated communications agency; and the public relations and communication company Padilla, which includes the brand consultancy Joe Smith and the food and nutrition experts at FoodMinds. In Europe, AVENIR GLOBAL owns the London-based strategic communications consultancy Madano and Hanover, one of the leading strategic communications and public affairs consultancies in Europe and the Middle East, with offices in London, Brussels, Dublin, Dubai, and Riyadh. The AVENIR GLOBAL network also includes healthcare specialists AXON, with offices in Toronto, the U.S., the U.K. and Europe and healthcare creative agency Cherry, based in London.