Senior Associate Director | Quantitative Insights & Strategy

Resources Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development investment

Flexible working

Performance bonuses

22 days annual leave

Parental leave

Growth culture

Job summary

Resources Group is a standout independent insights consultancy in Australia. The role targets a senior Quant Researcher who can own complex client problems, lead the thinking and manage a team of researchers.

You will coach, challenge and develop researchers, helping them build technical capability and confidence as consultants. With direct reports from day one, you’ll shape proposals and pitches, advise senior clients, and ensure high-quality, commercially sound outcomes across multiple

Qualifications

• Senior level with broad strategic research experience.
• Genuine track record of people management, not just project leadership.
• Ability to lead complex client problems and coach researchers.

Responsibilities

• Lead senior client counsel and advise clients on insights strategy.
• Industrial responsibility and hands-on development of the team.
• Coach researchers to become stronger thinkers, storytellers and consultants.
• Lead several complex projects simultaneously while ensuring quality and commercial outcomes.

Skills

Quantitative insights

People management

Client relationships

Proposal & pitches

Project leadership

Storytelling with data

Job description

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, strategy, 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 challenge the brief, shape the approach and influence what happens next.

The opportunity

This is a hire with weight to it.

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 be an experienced people manager. You’ll have direct reports from the outset and be expected to coach, challenge and develop researchers, helping them build both their technical capability and confidence as consultants.

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 ongoing research
• Get underneath the data and turn it into a clear strategic story
• Confidently advise senior clients, challenge thinking and influence what happens next
• Build strong client relationships, spot opportunities and contribute to proposals and pitches
• Lead and develop people, with proven experience managing direct reports and adapting your style to get the best from different personalities
• Coach researchers to become stronger thinkers, storytellers and client consultants
• Lead several complex projects at once while keeping an eye on quality and commercials
• Bring strong methodological judgement without needing to be the person doing every piece of analysis yourself

You’ll already be operating at senior level, with a strong grounding in quantitative insights, broad strategic research experience and a genuine track record of people management, not simply project leadership. The role combines senior client counsel, commercial responsibility and hands-on development of the team.

They’re independent, ambitious and give people genuine room to think. There’s freedom to shape the research around the problem rather than forcing every brief through the same process, alongside plenty of opportunity to influence the wider business.

There’s also

• proper investment in development
• flexible working
• generous performance bonuses
• 22 days annual leave increasing with tenure
• strong parental leave
• a culture that genuinely puts thought into how people work and grow

For a strong Quant Researcher loves the strategic end of research, this is a pretty special seat. Big questions, clever work, brilliant clients and plenty of room to make your mark.

About Resources Group

We are the Leading Global Talent Agency for Insights, Analytics & Data Strategy. Our consultants take the time to truly understand your career aims and are dedicated to providing tailored, impartial advice to find you the very best career move. We have access to an unrivalled and exclusive range of job opportunities with trailblazing agencies and blue-chips across Australia, NZ and APAC.

Resources Group’s Diversity and Equality Policy determines that we submit applicants to our clients on the basis of merit and ability, regardless of race, colour, age, disability, family responsibilities, gender, marital status, nationality, religious or political views or affiliations, sexual orientation or socio-economic background.