Qualitative Associate Director Melbourne, Aus $AUD 120-140,000 + SUPER + bonus - (posted Jun 12 2026)

Company: Resources Group
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Job Spec: Accelerate your career with one of Australia's most innovative strategic insights consultancies. Known for its agility, bold thinking, and award-winning employee-first culture, this consultancy is where passionate minds thrive.

They tackle complexity with simplicity, delivering clever, impactful solutions for their clients. With a focus on innovation and excellence, they've built a reputation for developing exceptional talent and redefining what's possible in research.


The Role

Step into a pivotal role within the flourishing qualitative team. As a Qualitative Associate Director, you'll unravel the intricacies of human behaviour to help build great brands, shape compelling products and services, and craft outstanding customer experiences.

Working closely with the Director of Qual, you'll lead qualitative insights strategies for big-name clients while playing a key role in growing the agency's national qualitative practice.


Key Responsibilities

• Build and nurture strong client relationships.
• Design and deliver bespoke research studies from proposal to presentation.
• Conduct qualitative fieldwork, including focus groups, workshops, ethnography, and online methodologies.
• Integrate cultural insights, behavioral theory, and quantitative data to deliver holistic solutions.
• Develop and present impactful strategies that drive client action.
• Deliver insights through workshops, presentations, reports, videos, and other creative formats.
• Contribute to the growth of internal qualitative capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to grow revenue and deepen client partnerships.

About You

You're a seasoned qualitative specialist with:

• Significant experience in qualitative insights strategy.
• Strong credentials in a market research agency environment.
• A knack for critical and strategic thinking and solving complex problems.
• Expertise as a storyteller, qualitative facilitator, and presenter.
• Proven client servicing skills, with the ability to build and maintain deep relationships.

Why Join?

This agency is committed to investing in your growth. They celebrate and reward successes. Nothing will hold you back here.

You can count on cracking peers, inspiring mentors, intellectual challenge, feedback, goal setting, fearless creativity and runway to develop your leadership skill set - people management, client ownership, commercial acumen etc.


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.

Who to contact: Send your CV to Gemma Lewis (Director, APAC) at glewis@resourcesgroup.com or call Gemma on 04524 17265 for a confidential discussion about this role and other related opportunities.

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