Data & AI Consulting Manager / Senior Manager in Consumer & Retail

Quick Facts

• Role: Data & AI Consultant (Consumer & Retail)
• Engagement: work with clients from initial discovery through implementation
• Focus: advanced analytics and AI use cases and GenAI-enabled commercial use cases

Description

You will help shape proposals, build business cases, lead workstreams, and act as the link between senior client stakeholders and engineering/data science teams. Your focus is on ensuring the right AI and advanced analytics solutions are designed, aligned to business objectives, and capable of delivering measurable value—bridging business needs and practical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Shape pursuits and proposals: contribute to presales by defining the problem, scoping the approach, and building the value narrative
• Lead client discovery: facilitate workshops; frame the real problem; define what a good outcome looks like
• Build the business case: identify, prioritize, and size data/AI use cases; translate into KPIs, investment rationale, and delivery roadmaps
• Own the workstream end-to-end: requirements, backlog, data readiness, governance, and value tracking through adoption
• Brief the builders: collaborate with Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Solution Architects to design scalable solutions (you define what and why)
• Tell the story: produce clear executive-level materials and present recommendations to leadership
• Pricing & promotions: elasticity modeling, promotional effectiveness, trade spend optimization, net revenue management
• Merchandising & category: assortment optimization, product performance, markdown and clearance
• Customer & growth: segmentation, CLV, churn/retention, personalization, next-best-action
• Demand & supply chain: demand forecasting and sensing, replenishment, availability and fulfillment analytics
• GenAI-enabled use cases: commercial copilots, knowledge and insight agents, automation of analysis and reporting

Requirements

• Deep Consumer & Retail expertise with concrete examples of measurable business impact
• Consulting experience: structured problem-solving, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and executive-level communication
• Data and AI literacy: define data requirements and KPIs; hold a substantive conversation with a data scientist or architect; translate between business and technical audiences
• End-to-end agile delivery experience: from problem framing and business case through delivery and adoption; clear view of what worked and what didn’t
• Fluent in CPG data landscape: syndicated and panel data (NIQ/Nielsen, Circana, Kantar), retailer POS and portal feeds, distributor sell-out, practical experience working with them
• Comfortable with ambiguity; takes ownership and drives to outcomes

Nice to have

• Familiarity with data cloud platforms and hyperscalers (Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, GCP, AWS)
• Experience with advanced analytics or GenAI patterns (forecasting, recommendation engines, optimization, LLMs, RAG)
• Hands-on exposure to modelling families (hierarchical/time-series forecasting, econometric and elasticity models, optimization, causal inference and incrementality testing)
• Knowledge of enterprise platforms (SAP, Salesforce, major ERP/CRM systems)
• Change management and adoption skills
• Experience with data governance/data quality frameworks or target operating model design
• Multi-market experience

Benefits

• Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
• Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture
• Hybrid by design mode; opportunity to work remotely
• Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
• Business-driven relocation opportunities
• Career development programs; thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
• Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
• English classes
• Stable pay and participation in Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
• Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks and coffee
• Corporate, social and well-being events
• Open to working with Contractors; B2B terms agreed individually