My highly successful international boutique consultancy client is looking for a Senior Manager/Director level management consultant to join their growing Retail performance improvement team.
Their Retail team works with healthy, under-performing and distressed companies across a variety of urgent, high impact situations. They help clients deliver significant improvement in business performance and enterprise value across all subsectors within the Retail industries.
You will need an excellent level of education for this role along with experience from a recognised, leading or specialist boutique management consultancy ideally with industry expertise within the retail sector, but with a desired focus on direct souring and end to end sourcing improvement.
This is a hands-on delivery role where we are looking for expertise in specific delivery experience in retail sourcing. To be right for this role your expertise needs to include:
* Management consultancy
* Led sourcing departments / the sourcing of specific categories
* Overhauled the sourcing strategy for apparel brands/retailers and are familiar with current sourcing and supply chain dynamics
* Vendor negotiations
* Excel modelling capability to estimate impacts from sourcing/negotiation shifts
* Pros/cons of different Go-to-Market processes – speed models versus longer calendar approaches
* Design and Product Development process
This role offers excellent prospects as part of a growing team. There is a single P&L, no audit channel and no sales target with this role. It is a meritocracy; your career is important to them and where the best possible work/life balance is important.
For this Senior Manager role they are offering a base salary of up to £165 000 + extensive benefits + very competitive bonus. You will need 12+ years’ relevant experience.