Senior Research Consultant - Strategic Advisory Firm

This advisory firm operates in true partnership mode. They sit high up the value chain, leveraging business and consumer data to embolden client decisions across brand, service, product, communications, and customer experience. It’s high-trust work with bold commercial impact.

As a Senior Research Consultant, you’ll bring structure and clarity to every engagement — framing problems, building evidence, and translating insight into clear, confident, and measurable advice.

Every project is fully customised, often working as an extension of clients’ in-house insights teams.

Key responsibilities

Project types are highly varied — ad hoc, tracking, brand positioning, customer segmentation, CVP, customer experience, U&As, journey mapping, innovation, and more. You’ll work across a portfolio of Australia’s biggest brands in Retail, FMCG, Sports, and Fintech.

• Lead day-to-day client engagement
• Design customised quantitative research frameworks
• Translate survey data into compelling narratives
• Integrate primary and secondary data sources
• Visualise data in sophisticated and creative ways to strengthen your story
• Lead presentations and facilitate stakeholder discussions
• Demonstrate an owner’s mindset, taking pride in both individual and team success
• Bring genuine curiosity about how people think, feel, and behave as consumers

What else to love?

• Powerful proprietary AI tool – augment how you consult: You’ll not fall behind with how the world’s moving here.
• Clear growth pathway – structured L&D and goal setting
• Sharp consulting skills – people join to sharpen their thinking and build stronger strategic muscles
• Growth environment – bold, energetic, and full of momentum; independent, agile, and future-focused
• Market-leading perks & a great office

We’re looking for a curious, creative, and strategic insights professional with strong agency experience in consumer research and a quantitative focus.

You’ll be methodologically and analytically strong (Q skills or equivalent), motivated by building trusted client relationships and delivering influential consulting.

If you’ve worked in a full-service, client-facing consumer insights role and can talk through the full project lifecycle — from proposal to presentation — we’d love to chat.

Sound like you? Please send your CV to ***email_hidden*** or call Gemma on +61 (0) 452417265 for a confidential discussion about this role and related opportunities.