At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a leading consulting firm to enhance retail operations and drive transformation.
- Company: Top retail consulting firm with a focus on innovation and performance improvement.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and opportunities to work on impactful projects.
- Other info: Roles available at various levels, perfect for ambitious individuals ready to make a difference.
- Why this job: Be part of a dynamic team shaping the future of retail through data-driven strategies.
- Qualifications: Experience in retail operations, merchandising, and transformation is essential.
The predicted salary is between 59400 - 72600 £ per year.
Our client is a leading retail-focused consulting firm, operating across the UK. They are now hiring at several levels and are looking for Managing Consultants, Senior Consultants, Business Consultants, and Associate Consultants to join them. They are looking for consultants with strong retail operational grounding combined with transformation and consulting exposure. Most of the work is in London or the South East of the UK, so you should ideally be based in these locations.
You will have experience in merchandising, planning, forecasting, or adjacent retail head office functions. The strongest consultants in retail transformation usually understand merchandising, planning, and forecasting functions because they have worked within those environments themselves. Operational retail credibility is the single most important attribute, and the best candidates can bridge retail operations, business transformation, technology, and data-driven decision making.
Role levels and related experience:
- Senior Associate Consultant: Operational retail profile with strong merchandising/planning foundations and early signs of systems or transformation exposure. Assistant Merchandiser level or higher.
- Business Consultant: Strong operational grounding with growing involvement in transformation, systems, forecasting improvement, or cross-functional programmes. Have reached Junior Merchandiser level or higher.
- Senior Consultant: Progression through retail operational roles before moving into transformation, systems, projects, and/or consulting.
- Managing Consultant: Combining deep retail operational credibility with substantial transformation and/or consulting leadership experience.
Key Functional Backgrounds:
- Merchandising
- Merchandise Planning
- Demand Forecasting
- Retail Planning
- Inventory Planning
- Allocation & Replenishment
- Category Planning
- Commercial Planning
- Retail Operations Transformation
- Technology Preferred Data, Analytics & AI Adjacency
Exposure to forecasting transformation, data-driven merchandising, inventory optimisation, retail analytics, AI-enabled planning, or advanced planning platforms.
Useful Systems & Platform Experience:
- RELEX
- o9
- Anaplan
- Board
- Blue Yonder
- JDA
- Oracle Retail
- SAP Retail
- SAP IBP
- Impact Analytics
Discipline(s): Retail Consumer Goods & FMCG
Duration: Permanent
Job type: Permanent
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