Our client is a leading Retail focussed consulting firm, operating across the UK. They are now hiring at severa 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 UK so you should ideally be based in these locations. London or the South East. You will have experience in merchandising, planning, forecasting, or adjacent retail head office functions. Ideal candidate: The strongest consultants in retail transformation are usually people who genuinely 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 are able to 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: Progresion 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 AnalyticsDiscipline(s): Retail Consumer Goods & FMCGDuration: PermanentJob type: Permanent
Retail Operations and Performance Improvement Consultants - London and UK employer: Mindbench
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