Data & AI Consulting Manager (Consumer & Retail, German Market)

Quick Facts

• Role: Data & AI Consulting Manager / Senior Manager in Consumer & Retail (German market)

Description

You will lead data and AI consulting engagements in Consumer & Retail, translating business problems into production-ready solutions that are actually adopted. You will drive discovery, shape proposals, build the business case, and align senior client stakeholders with engineering and data science teams. The focus is advanced and predictive analytics plus AI, including forecasting, elasticity modeling, scenario simulation, causal attribution, and GenAI-enabled commercial use cases.

Responsibilities

• Shape proposals and contribute to presales: define the problem, scope the approach, and build a value narrative

• Lead client discovery workshops and frame the real business problem (not only the stated one)

• Build data & AI business cases: identify, prioritize, and size use cases; define KPIs, investment rationale, and delivery roadmaps for sign-off

• Own the workstream end-to-end: requirements, backlog, data readiness, governance, and value tracking through adoption

• Brief the builders: partner with Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Solution Architects to design scalable solutions (you define what/why; they build how)

• Produce and present executive-level materials and recommendations throughout the engagement

• Drive Consumer & Retail topics including pricing & promotions, merchandising & category, customer & growth, and demand & supply chain

• Steer GenAI-enabled use cases such as commercial copilots, knowledge/insight agents, and automation of analysis and reporting

Requirements

• Deep Consumer & Retail expertise with concrete examples of measurable business impact

• Consulting experience in structured problem-solving, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and executive communication

• Data and AI literacy: define data requirements and KPIs and translate between business and technical teams

• End-to-end agile delivery experience from problem framing and business case through delivery and adoption

• Comfort with the CPG data landscape: transaction/order data, product data, customer data (CRM/loyalty), syndicated/panel data (NIQ/Nielsen, Circana, Kantar), retailer POS/portal feeds, and distributor sell-out

• Ability to work with ambiguity and drive to outcomes

• Fluent German is preferred (not mandatory) for client engagement

Benefits

• Hybrid work model with opportunity to work remotely within Poland

• Work abroad up to 60 days annually; business-driven relocation opportunities

• Career development, mentoring, soft-skill and well-being programs

• Certifications (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS) and English classes

• Stable pay; Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount; benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers); referral bonuses up to $2,000

• Office amenities and corporate/social/well-being events

• Contractors can be considered via individual B2B terms; benefits are for employees only