Infosys - Senior Principal - Business Consulting - Retail & CPG

Infosys Consulting is a global Strategy to Execution advisory firm to top companies for strategy, process engineering & transformation programs. We enable clients in more than 30 countries, to stay a step ahead of emerging business trends and outperform the competition. Infosys Consulting has 3000+ management consultants across the US, Europe, APAC and India, contributing over $600m in consulting revenue annually.

Why join us-

- Be a transformation leader in our rapidly growing practices for GEM (Growth and Emerging Markets - Asia, India Middle east) and Europe, Intelligent Automation & Digital transformation.

- Build the Future of Industry with us - from Strategy to Execution. Co-lead go to market client interactions with the sales teams to discover problems to solve, work with an industry leading digital delivery workforce to deliver futuristic business solutions

- Work on emerging themes like Intelligent Automation (Robotic process automation, Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning) and Digital (SMAIC) to reengineering processes and customer experiences build new business model innovations for our clients.

- Entrepreneurial collaborative work place in a high performing team. Design innovative business capabilities and new business models with the NEW - Digital, Design Thinking, advanced analytics and Insights, Value Realization, IMPACT

What are we looking for-

Senior Principal - Business Consulting (Retail & CPG)

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 14-17 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.

What will you do-

At Retail & CPG - Infosys Consulting - Growth and emerging markets (GEM) team, you will:

- Be responsible for sector/ subsector business planning and execution, firm building, team leadership and delivery of business results

- Build industry connects & relations, SPOC with other practices, partners on collaborative initiatives and for delivery capabilities. Participate in external industry forums. Publish point of views or speak on related industry forums