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

Quick Facts

As a Data & AI Consultant within the Consumer & Retail practice, you work with clients from initial discovery through to implementation.

Description

You help shape proposals, build business cases, lead workstreams, and act as the link between senior client stakeholders and engineering and data science teams.

Your focus is advanced analytics and AI use cases, including forecasting, pricing and elasticity modelling, attribution, and scenario simulations. You won’t develop the models yourself, but you’ll ensure the right solutions are designed, aligned to business objectives, and capable of delivering measurable value.

You bridge the gap between business needs and practical solutions, working closely with technical teams to ensure ideas become outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Shape pursuits and proposals: define the problem, scope the approach, and build the value narrative
• Lead client discovery: facilitate workshops and frame the real problem and desired outcomes
• Build the business case: identify, prioritise, and size data and AI use cases; define 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 on what/why while they build the how
• Tell the story: create executive-level materials and present recommendations
• Pricing & promotions: elasticity modelling, promotional effectiveness, trade spend optimisation, net revenue management
• Merchandising & category: assortment optimisation, product performance, markdown and clearance
• Customer & growth: segmentation, CLV, churn/retention, personalisation, next-best-action
• Demand & supply chain: demand forecasting and sensing, replenishment, availability and fulfilment 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, executive-level communication
• Data and AI literacy to define data requirements and KPIs and translate between business and technical audiences
• End-to-end agile delivery experience from problem framing and business case through delivery and adoption
• Fluency with CPG data landscape: syndicated/panel data (NIQ/Nielsen, Circana, Kantar), retailer POS and portal feeds, distributor sell-out
• Comfortable with ambiguity; ownership and driving outcomes

Nice to have

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

Benefits

• Top tech minds driving innovation in AI and cloud/digital modernization
• Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture
• Hybrid work within Poland; 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; Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 15% discount
• Benefits package: health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Offices with entertainment/relaxation zones, table tennis/football, free snacks and coffee
• Corporate, social and well-being events

Please, note: Benefits listed above are available to employees only. We are open for working with Contractors; B2B terms are agreed individually.