Research Analyst
Conduct research and prepare briefing documents for client work, giving senior staff a strong starting point.
Five reasons clients stay past the first hire
One resource, only yours
No shared queue, no rotating cast. Your dedicated resource works exclusively for you and stays.
25 years of Australian market experience
Founder Rohit Sahdev's 25 years in the Australian market, including senior leadership at Telstra, shape how every dedicated team is managed.
You always know what your team is doing
Every dedicated resource works behind Screenshot Monitor — auditable activity and reporting, not a black box.
No more "That's not my job."
Your dedicated outsourced resource adapts to what your business needs, takes ownership and grows their career by stepping up to new challenges.
Capacity without the hiring squeeze
Skilled and reliable operational talent is harder to hire locally right now. A dedicated resource adds capacity without adding to that pressure.
The outcome this role is built for
Faster, more thorough research briefs — because sources are gathered and synthesised consistently, not assembled under time pressure.
What this role owns day to day
Core responsibilities
- Conduct research using databases and public sources
- Prepare briefing documents and summaries
- Support competitive and market analysis
- Maintain research repositories for reuse
Works inside
Reported on weekly
| Turnaround time | Time from request to briefing delivered |
| Accuracy | Research matching verified sources |
| Task completion | Research tasks closed on schedule |
| Research quality | Depth and relevance of findings |
Works your hours. Picks up the work.
Australian business hours
Aligned to your primary time zone and holiday calendar for day-to-day coverage.
9am–5pm style coverage, matched to your roster
Extended coverage
Stretch shift start/end times around proposal deadlines and client meetings.
Early-start or late-finish shifts, by agreement
Peak-demand scaling
Additional dedicated resources during tender season and peak engagement periods.
Scale up seats for peak periods, scale back down after
What "no that's not my job" looks like in practice: a topic has limited public information — it still gets researched thoroughly across multiple sources instead of returning a thin summary.
What stays with your authorised staff
Final analysis conclusions remain with qualified senior personnel. This role researches — it doesn't advise.
The market backdrop for research analyst hires
of Australian businesses reported rising operating expenses in June 2026 — 65% citing overheads, 40% citing staffing costs.
Australian wage growth over the year to the March quarter 2026 (3.2% in the private sector), raising the cost of hiring locally.
of Australian small businesses expected difficulty meeting financial commitments in June 2026.
Statistics checked in July 2026 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and ServiceNow. See our Challenges We Solve page for full sourcing and context.
The same skillset, in any business with clients and deadlines
Strip away the firm-specific systems and this role is a recognisable shape: support delivery, coordinate stakeholders, and keep documentation clean under deadline pressure.
Doing this in-house with stretched staff, or paying a third party
- Research competes with billable client work
- Briefings take longer to prepare
- Research quality varies under deadline pressure
A dedicated research analyst, outsourced to us
- One resource whose only job is research preparation
- Reports to your own engagement lead, not a third party
- Same Screenshot Monitor transparency, direct to you
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Power BI/ExcelAccounting & Bookkeeping
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Xero · Power BIDigital Marketing & Agencies
Campaign performance analysis follows the same data-to-insight shape.
GA4 · reporting toolsRetail & E-commerce
Sales and catalogue data analysis needs the same research-and-report discipline.
Excel · analytics toolsNo guessing what this role worked on. Full sample report on the Professional Services page →
Discovery, role design, and a candidate you interview yourself.
You define outcomes, tools and work hours. We source, screen and put forward candidates you interview and approve. Once live, your resource follows your systems, escalation model and reporting cadence — reviewed together on a schedule you set.
Questions about hiring a dedicated Research Analyst
Ready to add this role to your team?
Tell us your research topics and turnaround expectations — we'll shortlist candidates against your actual task list.