Senior Retail Consultant

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Senior Retail Consultant

Fractal is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better. We believe that a true Fractalite is the one who empowers imagination with intelligence. Fractal has been featured as a Great Place to Work by The Economic Times in partnership with the Great Place to Work® Institute and recognized as a ‘Cool Vendor’ and a ‘Vendor to Watch’ by Gartner.

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Position Overview:

Fractal is looking for a proactive and driven Senior Consultant to join our Retail Consulting team in the Seattle, WA area. In this role, you will play a vital role as the client and team lead with hands-on involvement in project management, business interpretation and application of solutions, client communication, insights/results delivery. You will collaborate with your team and peers by developing resourcing plans, managing revenue goals, and contributing to new business development.

S/He will be expected to deliver an analytics engagement at client location independently. This will include problem solving, hypothesis testing, advanced analysis, creating models & solutions and compelling visualizations to make the solutions scalable and easily understood. The Senior Consultant will collaboratively work along with senior engagement managers & lead a team of analysts and data scientists across the globe.

Responsibilities:

• Person will be responsible for conducting data analyses across all NRM levers - Pricing, Promotion, Assortment Mix and Trade Investment

• Lead data aggregation and harmonization that will form the backbone of NRM analytics 

• Collaborate with Market Leads to understand market dynamics and incorporate market feedback into analyses 

• Integrate insights comprehensive summaries for NRM Leaders 

• Improve understanding of pricing, promotions, pack architecture and trade investments through use of data analytic tools and visualization tools

• Improve processes of analyses and data management across category business units and marketing functions 

• Develop observations/insights for each analysis in the NRM playbook and synthesize insights across analyses to create a storyline of opportunities 

 
Preferred: Previous experience with Price Elasticity, Promotion Effectiveness and FMCG Category management or trade management experience, Key account management 

Activities: 

• Perform granular level analysis to identify growth opportunities

• Understand the nuances of the product category and market to tailor the output according to business needs 

• Run the analyses and create visualizations, prepare drill down analyses to derive insights through Excel/PowerPoint 

• Create a storyline out of various analyses output for the business to comprehend the output 

Skills Required: 

• Bachelor's or equivalent experience in statistics, Quantitative Research, Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field; additional business degree is a plus

• Prior experience in Retail Analytics/Category Management/Revenue Management 

• Experienced working with large data sets and experience in Retail//Consulting, data analytics to derive data driven insights and consolidate them to generate recommendations 

• Experience in any of the NRM lever practices- Pricing, Promo, Assortment, Trade Investment 

• Ability to handle multiple work streams simultaneously and to tight deadlines in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. 

• Very strong analytical skills - excellent competency in MS Excel is a must, as is experience of managing complex, incomplete & inconsistent datasets and defining strategic analytics (market sizing/growth forecasts etc). 

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