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Managing Consultant
Location: Hybrid, UK, with an Aldwych office
Salary: £70,000–100,000 depending on level and experience, plus bonus schemes
About Us:
We partner with the world's leading retailers and FMCG brands to deliver measurable commercial impact. We combine deep industry expertise with advanced AI and analytics to help clients transform how they plan, trade, and grow. Our Consulting practice leads transformation across merchandising, demand forecasting, and supply chain — shaping strategy, operating models, and AI-driven solutions that help FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 businesses grow.
Eligibility & Application:
Candidates must already have the right to work in the UK. Please note: we are not offering visa sponsorship for this role, and applicants based outside the UK, or requiring sponsorship/relocation support, are kindly requested not to apply.
If you're interested and meet the above criteria, please share your profile along with all relevant details to yesu.antony@benchtalentcloud.com.
About the Role:
As a Managing Consultant, you will lead complex client engagements and set the strategic direction for delivery. You will operate as a senior trusted advisor, shaping transformation roadmaps, influencing executive stakeholders, and ensuring that our AI and consulting capabilities are translated into measurable business value. You will be accountable for delivery quality, team leadership, and commercial performance across your portfolio, while actively contributing to account growth and new opportunities.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Problem Solving
- Lead high-complexity programmes and define strategic frameworks for retail and FMCG clients, drawing on your consulting and industry experience
- Integrate cross-functional commercial, operational, and customer insight to shape major business decisions
- Design operating models and transformation roadmaps that embed AI and automation to deliver business value
- Steer innovation and process excellence across engagements, setting standards for analytical depth and clarity
Client Leadership & Influence
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior and executive stakeholders, constructively challenging and shaping strategic direction
- Lead multi-stakeholder environments with authority, aligning competing priorities and driving sustainable change
- Create and deliver executive-level presentations and business cases that influence beyond the immediate programme scope
- Inspire innovative thinking across client teams through persuasive narratives and structured insight
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AI & Technology-Enabled Transformation
- Identify, prioritise, and shape AI and data use cases aligned to commercial outcomes
- Translate business needs into structured requirements and collaborate closely with product and data science teams
- Lead the deployment of AI-enabled solutions, ensuring adoption, scalability, and measurable performance improvement
- Define how technology, automation, and AI should be leveraged strategically across client environments
Commercial Ownership & Growth
- Lead development of strategic accounts, expanding scope and deepening long-term partnerships
- Shape and close proposals, contributing directly to revenue growth and margin performance
- Expand brand presence through industry visibility, partnerships, and professional networks
- Contribute to service evolution and thought leadership
Team Leadership & Capability Building
- Line manage and develop Senior Consultants and Consultants, supporting their growth in strategic thinking, client leadership, and programme delivery
- Provide clear direction and constructive challenge to help teams produce high-quality, impactful work
- Foster a high-performing, values-led environment that encourages collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Contribute actively to Consulting leadership, shaping internal initiatives and strengthening consulting capability
Skills & Experience
Experience
- 8+ years in retail or FMCG consulting, or a combination of consulting and industry leadership
- Demonstrated leadership of complex, multi-workstream transformation programmes
- Proven success influencing senior and executive-level stakeholders
- Experience shaping and deploying AI or technology-enabled transformation initiatives
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Commercial & Strategic Capability
- Strong commercial acumen with a track record of expanding accounts or securing new opportunities
- Recognised subject matter expertise in at least one domain (e.g. Merchandising, Demand Planning, Retail Strategy, Change, AI Enablement) with knowledge of market best practice
Technology & Delivery
- Strong understanding of the retail systems landscape and latest market trends
- Experience leading business transformation programmes with pragmatic risk management and/or large-scale technical deliveries
Leadership & Influence
- Exceptional communication skills with presence at executive level
- High emotional intelligence, and demonstrated ability to mentor and develop high-performing teams
- Strong external network and visible industry engagement
Benefits & Perks
- Comprehensive private medical coverage — access private medical care with Vitality healthcare for you and your family
- Active Rewards — earn points with Vitality for benefits including cinema tickets, free coffees, gym discounts, and more
- 25 days annual leave, plus additional loyalty days earned over time
- Personal charity day — one extra paid day off each year to support a cause close to your heart, with donation matching
- Champion Health Wellbeing App — unlimited access to personalised tools for physical and mental wellbeing
- Professional and wellness seminars — expert-led sessions to support your professional and personal development
- Wellbeing days — dedicated paid time off to reset and recharge
Why Join Us
Managing Consultants work closely with clients and our AI specialists to shape practical, high-impact solutions. You will play a central role in guiding complex engagements, developing people, and helping evolve how we deliver consulting and AI together.
This role offers the opportunity to shape client outcomes, develop people, and contribute to the continued evolution of our consulting capability.
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