Senior Associate

STRAT7; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Hybrid working options

Pension scheme (4% employer)

Sabbatical after 4 years

Volunteer days

Health cash plan

Life assurance 4x salary

Cycle to work

Job summary

STRAT7 is seeking a Senior Associate to own defined workstreams from brief to delivery, translating research and multiple data sources into clear insights and commercial recommendations. Reporting to a Principal or Director and supported by colleagues across the STRAT7 group, you will produce client-ready materials with limited rework.

You will confidently present findings, facilitate workshops, manage time against budgets and contribute reusable knowledge across STRAT7, collaborating with teams

Qualifications

• Experience in consumer insights, market research, or strategy consulting.
• Ability to translate qualitative and quantitative data into clear insights.
• Strong presentation and client-facing skills.
• Experience with analytics software or consumer insight platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own complex workstreams: Plan and deliver defined workstreams end to end, synthesising multiple sources into insights.
• Produce client-ready outputs: Develop clear, evidence-led presentations and reports.
• Contribute confidently with clients: Present sections of deliverables and facilitate workshops.
• Deliver commercially: Manage time against budgets and flag scope changes early.
• Build shared capability: Create reusable materials and contribute to proposition development.
• Support the team: Share knowledge and improve internal operations.

Skills

Analysis & synthesis

Communication & storytelling

Workshop design & facilitation

Workstream planning & delivery

Commercial curiosity

Collaboration & feedback

Analytics software / insight platforms

Consumer insights / market research /

Job description

STRAT7 is a global data, insight and strategy group that helps ambitious businesses understand their world, connect with the people who matter and grow with confidence. We bring together specialist expertise in research, cultural insight, advanced analytics, data science and growth strategy, combining the depth of specialist agencies with the scale of a global group. Working as one integrated team and supported by our proprietary technology, we turn connected thinking into sharper insights and actionable commercial outcomes.

Advisory is STRAT7’s specialist growth and innovation unit, working across the group to translate human insights and market and business understanding into commercial opportunities and new revenue streams.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Senior Associate owns defined, complex and often ambiguous workstreams from brief through to delivery, translating research and multiple data sources into clear insights and commercial recommendations. Reporting to a Principal or Director and supported by colleagues across the STRAT7 group, they produce client-ready materials requiring limited rework, confidently present findings and facilitate sections of workshops. They contribute reusable knowledge across STRAT7 and manage their time effectively against project budgets.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own complex workstreams: Plan and deliver defined workstreams end to end, selecting appropriate analytical frameworks and synthesising multiple sources into insights and commercial implications that answer the client’s core question
• Produce client-ready outputs: Develop clear, evidence-led presentations and reports that communicate findings and commercial recommendations and require limited senior rework
• Contribute confidently with clients: Present sections of deliverables, respond thoughtfully to client questions, contribute to workshop design and facilitate breakout groups or defined workshop sessions
• Deliver commercially: Estimate and manage time against agreed task budgets, flagging scope changes or delivery risks early to help protect project margin
• Build shared capability: Turn project learning and market understanding into reusable case studies, materials and points of view; contribute evidence and ideas to proposition development and collaborate effectively on projects across STRAT7
• Support the team: Seek and act on feedback, share knowledge openly and take ongoing responsibility for agreed internal activities that improve colleague experience and business operations

SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

• Analysis and synthesis: Able to analyse qualitative and quantitative research and multiple data sources, identify key themes and translate evidence into clear insights and commercial implications
• Communication and storytelling: Strong writing and presentation skills, with the ability to build clear, evidence-led narratives and explain findings confidently to clients
• Workshop design and facilitation: Able to contribute to workshop design and confidently facilitate defined sessions or breakout groups, encouraging constructive discussion
• Workstream planning and delivery: Strong organisation, quality control and time management, with practical Excel and data-handling skills; able to deliver complex workstreams with limited oversight and flag risks early
• Commercial curiosity: An understanding of clients’ businesses and key functions, including marketing, innovation, insights and R&D, with the judgement to ask useful questions and connect findings to the business challenge
• Collaboration and feedback: Able to build effective relationships with colleagues across the group, draw on their expertise and support, share knowledge and seek, give and act on constructive feedback
• Experience with specialist analytics software or consumer insight platforms
• Background in consumer insights, market research, or strategy consulting - prior exposure to research methodologies and client advisory work is advantageous
• Sector knowledge in CPG, Consumer Health, Financial Services, or Tech - understanding of industry dynamics and consumer behaviour drivers as well as consumer insights

BENEFITS

The role comes with a salary up to £45,000 and clear paths to promotion and to new opportunities. Benefits include:

• 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays (Christmas closure – 3 days additional to entitlement – discretionary and non-contractual leave)
• Flexible, hybrid working options – we expect you to be at the office 3 days a week
• A contributory group personal pension scheme, to which we contribute 4% of Qualified Banded earnings to each team member’s gross salary after an initial 3 months service
• 4-week sabbatical after 4 years continuous service on top of 25 days holiday
• 2 volunteering paid days per year (under a formal program for a registered charity)
• A Health cash plan
• Life assurance scheme at 4 x salary
• Cycle to work scheme following successful completion of probation

RECRUITMENT

Recruitment for this role will involve three interviews

DISCLOSURE

STRAT7 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share a passion for research. Our commitment to inclusivity is not just about race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one's identity. All of our employee's points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.