Consulting Business Leader - Retail Domain

Consulting Business Leader - Retail Domain

Job description :

- We are looking for consulting business leaders who can play anchor roles in our sector industry practices and manage practice goals.

- S/he should have experience in leading and motivating a high performing team of consultants through many strategic large transformational consulting projects independently. Smart, self-driven, highly focused & self-motivated, high energy people with top notch communication skills, intellectual curiosity and passion for the retail and consumer products industry practice. Our consultants will have a blend of in-depth domain expertise in Retail and Consumer products, strong business consulting skills and excellent soft skills.

The successful candidate shall possess : Overall experience of 13-16 years, with at least 10+ years of top-tier consulting experience post MBA in Retail / CPG/Logistics - Consulting advisory experience post MBA with consulting firms like E&Y/ KPMG/ PWC/ Deloitte/ Cap Gemini/Accenture/ IBM S&T / Technopak / other equivalent firms.

- Previous 4-5 years in Retail industry with a good hand on experience across the sector value chain - retail planning, category management, distribution, working capital management, strategic network design, demand planning, retail forecasting, customer and in store operations, Experience working with Indian and global retail clients

- Business Strategy formulation Business case preparation, Go-to-Market / growth strategy formulation across value chain, cost to serve modelling and improvement, Business IT/Digital strategy & roadmap - Digital & Omni-channel transformation - Digital strategy, Digital Design & Implementation, New business model formulations, Omni-channel strategy, Omni-channel operations design, Customer experience design

- Finance and Planning -Financial planning, Retail planning, Demand planning and forecasting, Merchandise and assortment planning, Resource and budget management, Business intelligence and MIS - Supply Chain: Category management, sourcing strategy, demand / supply planning, vendor management, supply network modelling, supplier & procurement life cycle management, warehouse & inventory planning and analysis, order management, cost-to-serve analysis, supply chain integration and visibility, Digital supply chain transformation, GST readiness assessment and Design - Sales and Marketing

- Product pricing strategy, Marketing plans, Customer analytics, Brand management, Loyalty program design, CRM, Sales and distribution transformation - Enterprise Analytics - Definition of business problems to solve with analytics tools, analytics strategy definition and enterprise insights across Customer, Supply Chain, Operations and Finance process areas

- Program management / Change management : Program and Change management of large business transformation projects led by implementation delivery teams in Retail & CPG clients. Preferably managed large scale ERP value enabled execution - Affiliations / Certifications : NRF, RILA, APICS, SCOR /iLOG model expertize preferred, well versed with industry emerging technologies such as IoT / Digital, usage of big data analytics / analytical tools such as R, SAS/SPSS in solving business problems