- Posted 30 June 2025
- Salary $120,000 - $140,000 + SUPER
- Location Australia: Melbourne
- Job type Permanent
- DisciplineResearch Strategy
- Reference933876
- Job Category Quantitative Insights & Strategy, Behavioural, Innovation & Brand Strategy
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Quantitative Associate Director - Sharpen your edge as a strategist
Job description
It’s time to sharpen your edge as a strategist.
You’ve mastered the research craft, now you want the stretch - bigger challenges, smarter marketing thinking, and projects that make an impact.
This role delivers with leadership of a high-profile portfolio of FMCG and Services clients, the buzz of guiding 1-2 Consultants, mentorship from an amazing team Director and an amazing array of projects that’ll go wide on methodology and deep on strategy. Such as:
Excited? Get in touch for all the details: glewis@resourcesgroup.com
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.
You’ve mastered the research craft, now you want the stretch - bigger challenges, smarter marketing thinking, and projects that make an impact.
This role delivers with leadership of a high-profile portfolio of FMCG and Services clients, the buzz of guiding 1-2 Consultants, mentorship from an amazing team Director and an amazing array of projects that’ll go wide on methodology and deep on strategy. Such as:
- Future-focused innovation and pack/price optimisation for a major drinks FMCG
- Pack refreshes, flavour studies, and brand asset tracking for a major food FMCG
- Foundational strategic research to help retailers like Coles unlock new blue-sky opportunities
- Cultural foresight work exploring the future of pet ownership
- Brand tracking and segmentation to sharpen comms for a leading telco
- Lead client relationships with clarity and confidence
- Deliver gold-standard quantitative thinking
- Run a mix of ad hoc and tracking projects from proposal to presentation
- Push the boundaries of what strategic insights can do
- Mentor and support 1–2 brilliant Consultants
- Contribute to company culture and broader strategic direction
- You thrive in a high-performing, high-trust culture where growth is real, not lip service
- You love collaborating in a multidisciplinary team – qual, quant, culture, behavioural, brand, and marketing science
- You’re looking for purpose as well as progression - this B-Corp certified agency walks the talk
- You want the scale and stability of a larger agency, with the agility and spirit of an independent
- You’re keen to grow - not just up, but deep - whether that’s building your pipeline, becoming a brilliant people leader, dealing with tricky conversations, or honing your storytelling craft
- Oh, and the benefits? Market-leading salary + bonusses, 26 weeks paid parental leave, up to 25 days holiday, flexible-first working
- Deep experience in consumer insights, especially quant
- Strong agency-side background. Customised, ad hoc work essential.
- Inspiring storyteller, sharp thinker, commercial brain
- Team builder with energy, ideas, and follow-through
Excited? Get in touch for all the details: glewis@resourcesgroup.com
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.