Research Director - Quantitative Insights and Strategy

Resources Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Resources Group in Sydney is seeking a Research Director to lead quantitative insights and strategy for major clients. The role blends senior leadership with hands-on analysis, guiding complex projects from design to delivery.

You will own client relationships, shape research approaches, and mentor a team, while working in a hybrid setup that supports collaboration and client focus.

Qualifications

• Experience leading quantitative research projects and client relationships.
• Strong strategic storytelling: turn data into clear business insights.
• Ability to manage a team, develop staff and influence senior clients.

Responsibilities

• Take a complex business problem and determine what the client really needs to know.
• Design smart quantitative approaches across ad hoc and tracking research.
• Interpret data to craft clear, strategic narratives for clients.
• Confidently advise senior clients and push their thinking to maximize impact.
• Build strong client relationships and contribute to proposals and pitches.
• Lead and develop direct reports, adapting leadership style to different personalities.
• Coach researchers to become stronger thinkers, storytellers and client consultants.
• Manage multiple complex projects simultaneously with quality and commercial focus.
• Apply strong methodological judgement without needing to run every analysis personally.

Job description

Research Director - Quantitative Insights and Strategy

Research Director - Quantitative Insights and Strategy Sydney / hybrid $AUD 170-190,000 + Super + Bonus - (posted Sep 28 2026)

Job Spec: This is a hire with weight to it.

Join one of Australia's standout independent insights consultancies, a national business with a brilliant industry reputation, a seriously smart team and a client list spanning some of the country's biggest brands.

They're known for the kind of research that gets into the guts of a business problem. Complex questions, clever quant, strategic qual, commercial thinking and recommendations that clients can actually do something with.

The work is broad, but always strategic. Think brand, customer, segmentation, innovation, pricing, product, service and experience, often with multiple layers to the problem and plenty of room to question the brief, shape the approach and influence what happens next.

The Opportunity

They're looking for someone with that extra layer of experience, confidence and strategic maturity. Someone who can step into complex client problems, lead the thinking, bring others with them and operate as a trusted senior pair of hands across both the work and the team.

Alongside owning sophisticated quant and senior client relationships, you'll have a team of your own from day one.

You'll be someone who can:

• Take a complex business problem and work out what the client really needs to know
• Design smart quantitative approaches across ad hoc and tracking research
• Get underneath the data and turn it into a clear strategic story
• Confidently advise senior clients and push their thinking
• Build strong client relationships, spot opportunities and contribute to proposals and pitches
• Lead and develop direct reports, adapting your style to get the best from different personalities
• Coach researchers to become stronger thinkers, storytellers and client consultants
• Run several complex projects at once while keeping an eye on quality and commercials
• Bring strong methodological judgement without needing to run every piece of analysis yourself.