My highly successful international boutique consultancy client is looking for a Manager or Senior Manager 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 through five key areas: revenue growth, profit improvement, cash management, digital transformation, and organizational effectiveness.
You will need an excellent level of education for this role along with experience from a recognised, leading or specialist boutique management consultancy 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 apparel 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 Manager role they are offering a base salary of up to £120 000 + extensive benefits + very competitive bonus. You will need 7 – 12 years’ relevant experience.
For the Senior Manager role they are offering a base salary up to £150,000 + extensive benefits + very competitive bonus. You will need 12+ years’ relevant experience.