Company Description

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries and billions of customers served each year. As the global leader in the food service industry, we have a legacy of innovation and hard work that continues to drive us. Today, we are growing with velocity and are focused on modernizing our experiences, not to make a different McDonald’s, but to build a better McDonald’s.

We are moving fast and are adding to our best-in-class team. Joining McDonald's means thinking big every day and preparing for a career that can have impact around the world. We are customer obsessed, committed to being leaders, and believe we are better when we work together. Over the last couple years, we’ve launched home delivery, modernized our restaurant experience through digital enhancements and have so much more to come.

We are dedicated to using our scale for good: good for people, our industry and the planet. From ambitious recycling initiatives and balanced sourcing efforts to our partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities, we are constantly improving. We see every single day as a chance to have a genuine impact on our customers, our people and our partners.

Our new, state-of-the-art headquarters is located in the booming West Loop area in the heart of downtown Chicago. It's set up to be a global hub that cultivates innovation. Take a class at Hamburger University, sample future menu items in our Test Kitchen, and utilize the latest technology to communicate with your team around the globe! Our office helps us connect with each other like never before. Participate in monthly organized events, enjoy massive outdoor spaces, an 8000 square foot gym, and an onsite McDonald's serving international favorites. Needless to say, you’ll be lovin’ it here!

Job Description

This Insights & Analytics Manager will be responsible for developing and managing the measurement and analytics framework and strategy to support the McDonald’s U.S. Communications and Government Relations organization. This includes building and leading the implementation of a scorecard, process, and infrastructure to better measure inputs, outputs, and outcomes across the function including U.S. brand reputation, campaigns, traditional media & social media reporting, issues management, partner engagement, and internal benchmarks.

• Gather and analyze insights and data to inform priorities and strategy, issues and long term opportunities.
• Use a consistent framework, tools and methods of measurement to track performance.
• Establish a common language and definitions of metrics to enable comparison across campaigns and efforts.
• Create a consistent and highly visual report format and scorecard, process and timeline for each partner group (executives, internal CR teams, local market operators) with the information they need to make decisions.
• Ensure teams use clear and consistent critical metrics across campaigns that ladder up to business impact.
• Develop a set of benchmarks that give the context of the metrics
• Test and optimize the process and infrastructure that allows for learning over time and optimize our communications strategy on how to manage and plan initiatives.

Communications Measurement Strategy & Counsel

• Assesses and understand McDonald’s measurement and reporting gaps, and leads the development of roadmap and plan
• Audits current processes and reviews metrics/critical metrics at all levels
• Builds and creates a scalable infrastructure and process to provide consistency, structure, and flexibility.
• Builds standard reporting tools so all partners can easily view, input, store and visualize data and insights to more easily spot trends.
• Builds Communications/GR scorecard and database for a holistic view of results across the organization and year-over-year tracking capability
• Streamlines vendors and inputs to create stronger efficiencies and consistent approach
• Aligns communications measurement strategy with key U.S. Business departments (marketing, insights, field teams) in addition to other Communication departmental areas (e.g., global media relations, public affairs/strategy, and the global insights team) and PR agency partners.

Relationship Building

• Develops and maintains relationships with key partners across the U.S. Business, especially with those departments and individuals that the Communications team supports as well as with Owner/Operators, field marketing and communications and national and local PR agencies.
• Represents U.S. Communications & Government Relations both internally within the McDonald’s system and externally at industry and business functions, events, etc. Brings back knowledge and new information to the team and department to further collective skills development, leadership.

Agency & Vendor Management

• Manages measurement/reporting vendors and national and local agency partners in the development of communications measurement strategy and PR programs to support ownership areas
• Monitors and guides agency spend against established budgets to ensure effective resource management

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS degree
• Experience working in research/analytics and/or Public Relations, Coordinated Marketing or Digital/Social
• Experience using traditional and social media monitoring tools and related metrics reporting
• Results-oriented with proven experience in leading teams
• Positive attitude and Strong attention to detail, self-starter
• Creative thinker with strong strategic attitude; solid experience in concept to execution of new ideas
• You should enjoy working in a fast-paced, multi-tasking, deadline-focused, ambiguous yet dynamic environment with constant change

Additional Information

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