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Marketing Analytics for Leaders

Connect your organization’s data with marketing strategy, decision-making, and results.

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At a Glance

Enrollment:
Open Enrollment
Length:
8 weeks
Format:
Online
Total CEUs:
3.8 CEUs
Investment:
$2,800

Upcoming Dates

Students may register up to 7 days after the course start.

Learn to leverage data analytics to elevate marketing initiatives and achieve business goals.

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The University of Chicago’s eight-week online Marketing Analytics for Leaders course will equip you with the skills and tools to analyze and interpret data, providing strategic recommendations on positioning, pricing, and target audiences to drive growth.

Designed For

Designed for marketers, managers, and leaders looking to use data analytics to improve their organization's marketing strategy. Although previous marketing experience is advisable, this course will benefit anyone interested in advancing their analytical acumen and those who wish to pursue or transition into marketing leadership positions.

Learning Objectives to Become a Marketing Leader

Marketing analytics helps collect and strengthen data from across all marketing channels. This information is key to improving marketing efforts and driving them forward to achieve business goals. Understanding data and analytics-related principles, strategies, and tools will help you reach your learning goals and contribute more effectively to your business.

From the fundamentals of marketing analytics to building a data-driven culture within your organization, this course prepares you to take advantage of the exciting possibilities of using data to enhance strategies and achieve better results.

After completing the course, you will be able to: 

  • Apply your new skills and tools to review and analyze data.
  • Leverage data to improve marketing and financial results.
  • Present strategic recommendations on positioning, pricing, and target audiences to drive growth.
  • Play an active role in creating a data-driven culture for your organization.
  • Earn a credential certifying completion from the University of Chicago and become part of the UChicago network.
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Marketing Analytics Curriculum

You will learn to:

  • Explain the core principles of data analytics and their connection with marketing strategies.
  • Leverage data to create strategic competitive advantages.
  • Apply data-driven strategies to lead marketing and organizational initiatives.
  • Improve your understanding of customers through insights and analysis.
  • Communicate and act on results through data storytelling.
  • Find, extract, organize, and describe data to support decision-making.

Online Format Features

  • Self-paced interactive learning modules with a variety of engaging learning activities, assignments, and resources.
  • Live sessions that bring you, your peers, and your instructor together to learn collaboratively about the current state of the field, engage with real-world problems, and explore authentic solutions.
  • Continuous support from your instructional assistant, who will accompany you on your journey through the content, answer your questions, and provide feedback on your work.

Weekly Course Schedule

Become familiar with analytics and its impact on business outcomes, including qualitative vs. quantitative data, differentiation of data types and categories, and the analytics-based decision-making process. 

Explore the essence of marketing, market definition, and the customer journey.

Learn how to frame the marketing problem, identify stakeholders, summarize the business question, and present your hypotheses.

Explore data vs. metrics, models, data sources, and data quality and quantity.

Learn about regression analysis, causation vs. correlation, types of marketing tests and when to use them, the fundamentals of marketing mix modeling, and A/B testing vs. multivariate testing.

Learn how to develop a data story, revisit the A in the SCQ(A) Framework, and work with data charts and visualization to create compelling presentations using persuasive PowerPoint storytelling.

Learn about the organizational stages of data maturity, best practices for creating a data-driven culture, data governance structure, and data governance model heading.

Learn about data and ethics, including privacy, security, emerging laws, AI and voice technology, and changes involving people and processes.

Earn a Credential in Marketing Analytics for Leaders

After successful completion of this course, participants will receive credentials certified by the University of Chicago including a digital badge to recognize their achievement.

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Meet Your Instructor

Our highly trained instructors are courageous thinkers and passionate leaders who leverage years of industry expertise and up-to-date knowledge of terminology, tools, and trends to deliver an unparalleled learning experience. Through their rigorous discourse, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and field-shaping contributions, they create practical solutions and pioneering innovations that enrich our world.

Bridget Sheehan

Bridget Sheahan, MBA, CFA

Vice President of Analytics and Insights, Vericast

Bridget Sheahan works as the VP of Analytics and Insights at Vericast, a global media and marketing services company. She leads teams that work with companies of all sizes and verticals to create, innovate, and consult on marketing strategy. Prior to her current role, Sheahan held a number of...

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Career Outlook

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that overall employment for advertising, promotions, and marketing managers will grow at the above-average rate of 8.1%, creating 26,000 new jobs over the next eight years. Significant new growth areas include digital marketing, multichannel marketing, and e-commerce.

To succeed, marketing professionals need to immerse themselves in the digital world. Digital spending continues to increase exponentially, and technical and analytical skills have become the key to employability.

$ 157 k

The median pay for marketing managers in the United States.

# 7

The ranking of market research analyst in U.S. News and World Report’s 2024 Best Business Jobs.

14 %

The CAGR of the marketing analytics market over the next five years

Potential Job Titles for Professionals with Skills in Marketing Analytics

  • Account Manager
  • Advertising Manager
  • Business Analyst
  • Business Development Analyst
  • Digital Brand Manager
  • Digital Marketing Analyst
  • Market Research Analyst
  • Marketing Analyst
  • Marketing Data Analyst
  • Marketing Manager
  • Promotions Manager