Chief Growth Officer (Cincinnati)

Chief Growth 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.

About Lunt

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 Opportunity

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.

What You Will Do

• 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.

First-Year Priorities

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.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in market research, consumer insights, and strategic consulting.
• Substantial healthcare-insights experience is required, including meaningful work with medical-device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare-provider, healthcare-services, or related healthcare clients.
• Proven ability to establish credibility with senior clients and provide a consultative point of view on complex research, strategy, and business decisions.
• Broad research and insights fluency across qualitative, quantitative, strategic, innovation, brand, customer, and related engagements.
• Demonstrated success building and sustaining senior client relationships, expanding accounts, originating high-quality business, and delivering profitable growth.
• Experience leading accomplished teams, developing people, establishing accountability, and navigating organizational change.
• Strong commercial and operating judgment, including pricing, project economics, margins, resource planning, and capacity management.
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial style suited to a smaller, privately held business where senior leaders are strategic, client-facing, and hands-on.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and leadership skills.
• Current residence in—or willingness to relocate to—the Cincinnati area.

The Leader We Seek

You are thoughtful, decisive, highly relational, and commercially capable. You respect the experience and institutional knowledge of a long-tenured team, while also bringing the clarity, courage, and judgment to evolve the organization and make difficult decisions when necessary.

You see growth as a way to deepen client impact, strengthen the team, and build a durable business—not simply as a reason to add headcount or pursue revenue at any cost.

Lunt’s culture is relationship-driven, values-based, and faith-informed. We welcome a leader who brings integrity, humility, joy, respect, and professionalism to that environment.

Compensation and benefits

Lunt offers a competitive compensation and benefits package for this role, including:

· Competitive base salary commensurate with experience and role scope.

· Annual performance incentive tied to business and leadership performance.

· Potential long-term incentive opportunity based on sustained value creation.

· Competitive benefits.

Additional details regarding compensation, benefits, and long-term incentives will be discussed with qualified candidates.

Why Lunt

· More than 30 years of success as an established, woman-owned insights and strategy company.

· Meaningful healthcare, medical-device, and CPG client work with blue chip clients who remain loyal to Lunt for 15 years and beyond.

· A strong reputation with business built on long-term client partnerships rather than transactional project volume.

· Significant influence over client relationships, growth strategy, people, organizational design, and the firm’s future direction.

· The entrepreneurial experience of a smaller firm without traditional start-up risk.

· A rare opportunity to help shape the next generation of leadership in a successful, values-based business.

To apply

Please submit your résumé and a brief note describing your healthcare-insights experience, your experience growing senior client relationships, and your interest in leading within an intentionally boutique professional-services firm.

Lunt Associates is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics under applicable law.