# Principal Consultant

The Principal Consultant serves as a strategic partner to a select portfolio of key clients, acting as an extension oftheir marketing, consumer insights, innovation, strategy, and brand teams. This role provides thought leadership, designs and leads custom research initiatives, and delivers actionable recommendations that help clients make informed business decisions and accelerate growth. As a senior individual contributor, the Principal Consultant has no direct line management responsibility but is expected to lead project teams, mentor colleagues, and contribute to the development and scalability of Mintel Consulting's capabilities and methodologies. This is a Hybrid position based in Chicago. Key Responsibilities: Client Partnership & Strategic Leadership Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to assigned client accounts Build and maintainstrong relationships with directors, vice presidents, and C-suite stakeholders Provideproactive guidance on consumer, category, brand, and market opportunities Act as the primary point of contact for client ideation, quality control, and project enhancement discussions Develop innovative consulting approaches that expand client relationships

- **Id**: 4087942
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mintel-principal-consultant>
- **Role**: Sales
- **Role family**: Sales
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T14:43:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T00:52:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5054
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Growth opportunities, Parental leave, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Market Research

## Company

- **Id**: 678643
- **Name**: Mintel
- **Domain**: mintel.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mintel>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.6
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 96000
- **Max**: 120000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 120000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T19:26:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T04:28:34Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 120000
- **Is top pay**: no

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