Research Consultant - Chicago​/Hybrid

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Research Consultant

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

Alexander Group:
The Go-to-Market Consulting Leaders

Alexander Group provides go-to-market consulting services to marketing, sales, service and talent leaders. With over 40 years of developing practical, executable solutions, we are singularly focused on helping commercial teams unlock their full potential and reach new revenue goals. Founded in 1985, we've served more than 3,000 companies around the world, across all industries.

Our experience gives us not only a sophisticated set of best practices to design go-to-market strategy-we also have a rich repository of industry data that informs our recommendations.

Our dedication to sales strategy and revenue growth has led to:

• More than 70% of our clients being Fortune 500 corporations
• Project work in more than 25 countries
• Extensive industry experience in B2B markets

Position Overview:

The Research Consultant will be a senior individual contributor within Alexander Group's Analytics & Research team, responsible for developing high-quality, insight-rich research that advances AGI's intellectual property, supports client engagements, and strengthens the firm's market perspective on go-to-market strategy.

This role is ideal for a seasoned business research, advisory, or consulting professional who can translate qualitative and quantitative information into compelling research stories, executive-ready frameworks, practical recommendations, and publication-quality deliverables. The Research Consultant will work closely with executive research sponsors, practice leaders, subject matter experts, and consulting teams to shape research agendas, test hypotheses, synthesize findings, and produce client-facing insights.

The Research Consultant will be expected to operate with a high level of ownership and independence while remaining highly practical, business-oriented, and focused on helping clients solve real go-to-market challenges. The role is designed for individual contributors with significant business research or consulting experience, and the current recruiting context specifically emphasizes candidates with go-to-market research experience, including former advisory-firm or analyst-firm talent.

There is an opportunity to grow into broader research leadership responsibilities over time, including expanded ownership of research strategy, research team development, executive-level thought leadership, and future Research Manager responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

Research Strategy, Analytics and Fact-Finding

• Investigate and recommend first- and third-party data sources, research partners, and data collection approaches for both qualitative and quantitative research
• Design and orchestrate research methodologies, including data collection plans, interview approaches, survey inputs, timelines, budgets, and risk mitigation plans
• Develop research hypotheses that align to the overall research story, including primary and secondary hypotheses, key questions to test, and themes to validate with executive sponsors and subject matter experts
• Analyze qualitative inputs to identify best practices, case examples, emerging themes, and executive-relevant implications
• Integrate quantitative analysis into research outputs to strengthen explanatory value, support findings, and create more compelling insight narratives
• Leverage Alexander Group benchmarks, market data, interviews, surveys, client experience, and secondary research to build well-supported perspectives on go-to-market trends and practices

Solution Development and Thought Leadership

• Design new research frameworks, models, and solution concepts that expand AGI intellectual property in relevant topic areas
• Connect new research frameworks to existing AGI methodologies, benchmarks, consulting experience, and subject matter expertise
• Develop deep subject matter expertise in multiple go-to-market topic areas, such as sales strategy, account management, customer success, revenue operations, sales compensation, marketing, service, AI-enabled commercial models, or industry-specific growth practices
• Translate research findings into practical recommendations that are innovative, business-relevant, and actionable for executive audiences
• Contribute to AGI intellectual property, including research reports, articles, white papers, client-ready frameworks, executive presentations, virtual round tables, and other market-facing content

Deliverable Creation

• Develop the core storyboard for research deliverables, ensuring the narrative is clear, compelling, logically structured, and executive-ready
• Own the creation of client-facing and publication-ready research materials in multiple formats, including PowerPoint decks, written reports, executive summaries, frameworks, case examples, and readout materials
• Prepare materials for executive sponsor reviews, internal research meetings, client readouts, and external-facing events
• Work closely with executive research sponsors, practice leaders, consulting…