At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead transformative projects in the retail fashion sector and shape industry strategies.
- Company: Join TCS, a purpose-driven company making a real impact globally.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, health perks, and extensive training resources.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with strong career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Be a key player in shaping the future of retail with top brands.
- Qualifications: Experience in consulting and fashion retail is essential.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Location: London
Contract: Permanent
Mode of Working: Hybrid
Are you looking to leverage your skills in Retail Domain? We have a great opportunity for you – Senior Business Consultant - Retail Fashion!
Careers at TCS: It means more. TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide.
The Role:
As a Senior Business Consultant - Retail Fashion, you will be responsible to help our clients lead through this complexity. You will play a pivotal role in the origination, shaping, leadership, and successful execution of transformation programmes that span digital, supply chain, merchandising, store operations, commercial strategy, and customer experience.
Your responsibilities:
- Enterprise Transformation Leadership: Co-lead major enterprise transformation programmes, spanning commercial strategy, digital enablement, supply chain redesign, operating model evolution, and large-scale organisational change.
- Client Development & Market Impact: Serve as a trusted advisor to C-suite leaders, helping them navigate complex strategic decisions with clarity and conviction.
- Proposition & IP Development: Strengthen and expand our proprietary fashion transformation frameworks, with specialism in omnichannel strategy, merchandising modernisation, supply chain resilience, inventory optimisation, customer experience transformation, and commercial performance improvement.
- Delivery Governance & Risk Leadership: Design and manage robust governance structures ensuring visibility, alignment and accountability across complex, multi-workstream programmes.
- People Leadership & Culture: Build, coach and inspire high-performing teams across consulting, client staff and blended delivery models.
- Financial & Commercial Management: Manage programme commercials, ensuring profitable delivery, appropriate phasing of costs, and transparent financial reporting.
Fashion-Specific Impact Areas:
- Omnichannel & Digital Commerce: Shape omnichannel strategies that balance customer experience with economic sustainability.
- Merchandising Excellence: Modernise end-to-end merchandising processes across planning, buying, assortment, pricing and in-season trading.
- Next-Generation Supply Chain & Sourcing: Re-architect fashion supply chains for resilience, sustainability, speed and cost-efficiency.
- Customer Experience Transformation: Use insights, behavioural data and qualitative research to design experiences that lift loyalty, conversion and brand distinctiveness.
- Proposition Development: Define and optimise value propositions, category roles, price architecture, private label strategies and product lifecycle dynamics.
Your Profile:
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
- Professional experience in spanning consulting and senior roles within fashion retail organisations.
- Demonstrated track record of embedding AI and agentic decisioning into fashion retail transformations.
- Direct experience leading or governing large-scale transformation programmes.
- Depth in merchandising, supply chain, or omnichannel retail with hands-on exposure early in your career.
- Rich consulting or transformation experience: strategy, operating model, transformation design, delivery governance, and C-suite influencing.
- Demonstrated success in delivering tangible commercial outcomes.
Rewards & Benefits:
TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.
Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing:
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998. We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation.
Locations
Retail Business Consultant in City of London, London employer: Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in London that fosters innovation and collaboration. With a strong commitment to employee growth, TCS provides extensive training resources, health and wellness initiatives, and a culture that values diversity and inclusion. As a Senior Business Consultant in Retail Fashion, you will have the opportunity to lead transformative projects for some of the world's most iconic brands while enjoying a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
