Senior Retail Merchandising Business Consultant

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Retail Merchandising Business Consultant

• Focus: Merchandising strategy and transformation workstreams for discretionary retail

• Experience: 5–8 years in retail merchandising strategy, operations, and transformation

Description

Lead specific workstreams within merchandising strategy and transformation engagements, driving high-quality analytical insights and tangible client value. Conduct in-depth analysis and facilitate workshops covering assortment, space and floor planning, pricing, inventory management, and planning processes to identify improvement opportunities and growth levers. Act as a trusted advisor to senior retail stakeholders, support proposals, and mentor junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead workstreams for merchandising strategy and transformation, ensuring consistent delivery quality

• Analyze current assortment, space/floor planning, pricing, inventory management, and planning processes

• Facilitate workshops to assess needs and define improvement opportunities

• Shape and implement change programs within assigned workstreams

• Support engagement leads with workstream delivery consistency and quality

• Maintain client relationships with Director/Senior Manager-level stakeholders

• Contribute insights to proposals and develop new consulting propositions

• Serve as trusted advisor on topics such as assortment optimization, AI-driven planning, pricing strategy, data analytics, and digital merchandising

• Mentor junior staff and contribute to team development and coaching

• Support creation of consulting content (e.g., Points of View)

• Ensure project delivery standards, including risk management and quality assurance for deliverables

Requirements

• 5–8 years of retail experience with significant discretionary merchandising strategy/operations/transformation exposure

• Strong discretionary retail merchandising expertise (apparel, home, beauty, electronics, or general merchandise)

• Ability to lead workstreams and deliver analytical insights tied to measurable results

• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills; proven workshop support ability

• Experience redesigning and innovating merchandising business processes; exposure to change management

• Ability to mentor junior staff and support team development

• Willingness to travel as required

• Bachelor’s degree in business/merchandising/related field; MBA or equivalent desirable

Benefits

• Salary range: $148,800–$201,300 per year

• Opportunity to lead analytics-driven transformation workstreams and advise senior retail stakeholders