Chief Officer

Lunt Associates Insights Firm | Cincinnati, Ohio

Lunt Associates is seeking an accomplished, full-time MARKET RESEARCH & STRATEGY leader to help shape the next chapter of our woman-owned firm.

This is an opportunity for an accomplished insights leader with a proven ability to build and maintain client relationships as you deliver research programs that answer tough business challenges. You will deepen blue chip client partnerships, build selective new-business opportunities, lead and develop our experienced team, and help set vision for a well-established boutique firm as it moves through its next stage of leadership and growth.

Lunt Associates Inc. is a trusted insights and strategy partner known for meaningful relationships and meaningful impact. For over 30 years we have built long-term client partnerships by combining deep functional research experience, strategic perspective, and a highly relational approach.

Our work includes leading sophisticated research across Healthcare, Medical Device, CPG, service and related industries.

We are intentionally a boutique firm and our goal is to remain high-quality, high integrity, and values first rather than pursue growth for growth’s sake. We believe that enduring client relationships, excellent work, a healthy team, and values-based leadership matter as much as financial results.

The Chief Growth Officer will help lead Lunt Associates through its next chapter - deepening the relationships that have built our business, selectively growing the firm, and strengthening the team and organization for the future.

This is a hands-on, client-facing leadership role in a boutique insights and strategy firm. You will work closely with Lunt’s current leaders to grow priority accounts, build high-quality new client relationships, develop people, and assume increasing responsibility for the firm’s performance and direction.

This role is full-time, based in Cincinnati, primarily remote with some travel.

• Deepen and expand relationships with priority healthcare, medical-device, CPG, and service-industry clients.
• Identify and develop selective new-business opportunities that fit Lunt’s capabilities, quality standards, margins, and delivery capacity.
• Build and execute a practical growth-and-capacity plan with the CEO and President.
• Lead, coach, and develop an experienced team while helping build the next generation of leaders.
• Strengthen team role clarity, accountability, decision-making, and operating discipline.
• Bring sound judgment to client selection, pricing, project economics, profitability, and long-term growth choices.
• Protect and build on what makes Lunt distinctive-our values, client relationships, quality of work, and point of difference—while introducing thoughtful change where it will make the firm stronger.

You will be comfortable moving between senior-client conversations, complex healthcare-insights work, business-development activity, team coaching, and practical operating decisions.

During the first 12-18 months, you will:

• Earn the trust of Lunt’s clients, team members, and current leaders.
• Develop clear account plans for priority client relationships and identify the most appropriate opportunities for growth.
• Improve the quality, focus, and visibility of the business-development pipeline.
• Help ensure that growth is profitable, deliverable, and consistent with Lunt’s commitment to outstanding client service and sustainable team workload.
• Clarify accountability and support the development of both long-tenured senior staff and emerging leaders.
• Help shape the longer-term evolution of leadership responsibilities and succession in partnership with the owners.

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