Senior Consultant, Qualitative Research

Role Overview

• As a Senior Qualitative Consultant, you’ll help lead qualitative projects from start to finish. This means being close to the client, clear on the objective, thoughtful in the design, sharp in the analysis and compelling in how the story lands.
• Client centricity: building trusted client relationships throughout a project’s journey; keeping clients informed, involved and confident in the work.
• Recruitment management: developing participant criteria that is fit for purpose, and managing recruitment with external providers.
• Topic frameworks: writing guides that ladder back to the client objective while creating enough space to uncover the unexpected.
• Fieldwork: conducting interviews, groups, workshops and other qualitative methods with confidence and curiosity.
• Analysis: making sense of messy human data, identifying the insights that truly matter, and knowing what to leave behind.
• Debrief writing: turning findings into clear, compelling stories that communicate the insight, the implications and the opportunity.
• Client presentations: leading client sessions and presentations comfortably, bringing the work to life in a way that is engaging and useful.
• Project management: keeping projects moving, managing timelines and staying across the details without losing sight of the bigger picture.

Requirements

• Curious: genuinely interested in people, culture, behaviour, brands, and the “why” behind the obvious answer. You’ll be someone who pays attention to the wider world – what people are talking about, what’s shifting in culture, and how everyday life shapes the way people think, feel and act.
• Collaborative: open to diverse perspectives and comfortable working closely with others.
• Detail-oriented: able to hold the moving parts of a project, spot gaps, and make sure the work is rigorous and well-crafted.
• Personable: warm, confident and able to build rapport with clients, participants and team members alike.
• Pace-ready: comfortable working across multiple projects, switching gears when needed, and keeping momentum without compromising quality.
• Commercially aware: able to connect human insight to the decisions clients need to make.
• A strong communicator: clear in your writing, confident in the room, and able to turn complexity into something people can act on.

Tech Stack

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Benefits

• At TRA, qualitative research is not just about asking good questions. It’s about knowing how to listen, how to read between the lines, how to spot what others might miss, and how to turn that into insight clients can use. So, if you’re energised by variety, problem solving, and motivated by the chance to understand people more deeply, this could be the role for you.

Apply today with a cover letter outlining why we should talk with you, your salary expectation and confirm you have the right to work in New Zealand. We'd love to hear from you!