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Chevron is accepting online applications for the position Manager, Reputation and Research through 07/13/26 at 11:59 p.m.Central Time.

Corporate Affairs proactively manages social, political, and reputational risks for Chevron and engages the workforce to advance the business. We strengthen Chevron's strategic advocacy, communications, and social investments to build confidence in our company and industry.

Chevron's strategy is straight-forward: be a leader in efficient and lower carbon production of traditional energy, in high demand today and for decades to come, while growing lower carbon businesses that will be a bigger part of the future. To achieve these goals, we'll build on the assets, experience, capabilities, and relationships we've developed over 140 years to incubate and grow new business.

Reputation Management, Impact and Analytics is a team within Chevron's Corporate Affairs (Corporate Affairs includes communications, policy, government and public affairs, and stakeholder engagement) organization that is responsible for understanding how a broad ecosystem of stakeholders perceive Chevron and what perceptions mean for enterprise risk, engagement, and strategic choice. We translate digital listening and discovery, qualitative and quantitative opinion research, and a deep understanding of stakeholder expectations into insights for functional, business and executive leaders.

What does our work inform?

• Issue response
• Stakeholder sensitivities
• Advocacy strategy and initiatives
• External and internal communications
• Local presence and partnerships

This role is part of a company-wide capability that links stakeholder perceptions and drivers of reputation to corporate affairs outcomes -policy support, advocacy, investor confidence, employee engagement, partner trust, and Chevron's ability to operate effectively and credibly in communities and markets (license to operate resilience). We are looking for an audience-oriented opinion research professional who believes that understanding stakeholder differences through listening, learning, segmentation, and measurement is critical to developing compelling communications and enhancing corporate reputation. Based on business needs, this role has core responsibilities in three areas:

Qualitative + quantitative project management

• Design and oversee complex custom research across qualitative, quantitative and advanced methodologies; ensure creative, custom methodologies are executed with rigor and impact
• Lead end-to-end study design across a variety of methods: stakeholder deep dives, elite interviews, focus groups, ethnographic approaches where appropriate, pulse surveys, longitudinal tracking.
• Provide oversight to vendors and partners on methodologies and approaches, ensuring delivery against key milestones, with sound judgement on when to elevate challenges
• Ensure research produces predictive and diagnostic outputs (not just descriptive findings), including effect sizes, uncertainty, and scenario implications.

Establish corporate affairs research standards

• Manage research-related intake across Corporate Affairs teams: work across our global businesses to understand strategic needs and provide guidance on existing insights or convert into briefs for review and prioritization.
• Work with Senior Manager on reputation measurement governance. Responsible for templates that deliver more efficient intake, processing, or analysis.
• Build, maintain and manage relationships with external research firms, measurement companies, and data providers to ensure robust capabilities, holding vendors accountable to standards for rigor, quality control, security, and commercial discipline.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, best practices in research and stakeholder insights, highlighting integration opportunities with research operations.
• Partner with colleagues to review locally executed surveys to ensure research delivers decision quality findings, while ensuring statistical validity and compliance.

Insights and change management

• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure functional performance and initiatives, communicating and sharing insights across teams and geographies.
• Build organizational capability for research quality, interpretation, and application within the Corporate Affairs organization.
• Foster a collaborative environment for knowledge-sharing, via insight briefings, global forums, and playbooks that help Enterprise Communications, Policy, Public Affairs, and Government Affairs understand how to identify and leverage high-quality insights.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in public opinion research, consumer insights, analytics, or strategy within global organizations
• Familiar with the benefits and limitations of research practices.
• Proficiency in survey development platforms (e.g., Qualtrics, MS Forms), statistical analysis tooling (e.g., SPSS, R, Python, SQL) and data visualization (e.g., Power BI, Q Research, Datawrapper).
• Strong proficiency with the MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Copilot), especially Excel (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables). Experience with Power BI a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excited by corporate positioning and brand strategy, designing and managing longitudinal studies, brand trackers, and other complex research programs.
• Experience creating enablement tools such as playbooks, briefing materials, and forums to build insight fluency across teams.
• Knowledge of data pipelines / data documentation (dictionaries, codebooks, metadata, versioning) aligned with building reusable infrastructure.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and can thrive in an evolving industry landscape and organizational change.
• Demonstrated experience with quantitative operations and ensuring everything runs smoothly (workflows and timelines, survey QAs, programming checks, fieldwork performance), including rapid research execution and knows when to prioritize speed versus depth.
• Experience with projects delivering brand strategy, stakeholder mapping, recommendations for corporate communications, integrated external campaign planning, employee engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships by working across multiple teams, functions, and seniority levels without direct authority, both vertically (e.g., from data analysts to corporate affairs leaders) and horizontally (peers across functions, geographies).

Relocation Options:

Relocation may be considered within Chevron parameters.

International Considerations:

Expatriate assignments will not be considered.

Chevron regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited Visa status for this position.

Flexible Working, Work-Life Balance, Hybrid Schedules

Chevron offers a complete package and provides career development opportunities to all employees. We do this through onboarding, training and development, mentoring, volunteering opportunities and employee networking groups. We advocate work-life balance and offer employees access to various health and wellness programs. We also offer hybrid work models and alternative work schedules.

Benefits
Chevron offers competitive compensation and benefits programs, including variable pay, healthcare coverage, retirement plan, insurance, time off programs, training and development opportunities and a range of allowances connected to specific work situations. Details of such benefits and allowances are available at https://hr2.chevron.com/. The selected candidate's salary will be determined based on his or her skills, experience, and qualifications.