Tarka Talent
Managing Consultant - Retail
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Job Title: Managing Consultant - Retail
Salary: £80,000 - £100,000
Location / Working Model: UK | Hybrid working
Are you ready to shape major business transformations, advise executive leaders, and turn AI innovation into measurable commercial results? We are working with a specialist consulting organisation that partners with leading retail and FMCG businesses to solve complex commercial and operational challenges. Combining industry expertise with advanced analytics and AI, the business helps organisations rethink how they plan, trade and grow. You’ll have the opportunity to influence strategic decisions, lead high-value client programmes and develop talented consultants while helping shape the future of technology-enabled consulting.
The Managing Consultant will lead complex transformation engagements, build trusted executive relationships, and drive commercial growth, while ensuring teams deliver practical solutions that create lasting business value.
Role Highlights
- Lead major retail and FMCG transformation programmes, setting strategic direction and delivery standards across multiple workstreams.
- Shape operating models and transformation roadmaps, applying AI, automation and commercial insight to improve business performance.
- Advise senior stakeholders, challenge existing thinking and influence decisions through compelling presentations and evidence-led business cases.
- Identify opportunities to expand client relationships, develop proposals and contribute directly to revenue and margin performance.
- Lead and mentor consultants, strengthening delivery quality, strategic thinking and the wider consulting capability.
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You Will Need
- 8+ years’ experience in retail or FMCG consulting, or a combination of consulting and industry leadership.
- A proven track record leading complex transformation programmes and influencing senior executive stakeholders.
- Recognised expertise in at least one area such as merchandising, demand planning, retail strategy, change or AI enablement.
- Experience shaping and delivering technology-enabled transformation, with an understanding of retail systems and practical risk management.
- Strong commercial judgement, executive-level communication skills and the ability to develop high-performing teams and client relationships.
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Why You’ll Love It
- Comprehensive healthcare: Private medical cover through Vitality, including optical and dental care, with family cover included.
- Wellbeing support: Access to the Champion Health app, personalised wellbeing resources and paid wellbeing days.
- Purpose beyond work: An additional paid charity day each year, plus matched charitable donations.
- Continued development: Expert-led professional and wellbeing seminars to support your growth at work and beyond.
Apply today to take the next step in your consulting career, shape meaningful client outcomes and help build a more inclusive workplace. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all employees and job applicants. In line with the Equality Act 2010, we strive to create and maintain a working environment in which everyone is able to make the best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit.
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