Consultant - Retail Performance Improvement

About the role

The BRG Retail Performance Improvement (RPI) practice specializes in providing strategic, operational, and financial advisory services to retail companies, private equity firms, management teams, boards of directors, investors, hedge funds, and other lenders on companies across the retail space. Comprised of experienced, hands-on professionals that are results-oriented and data-driven, the market leading BRG Retail Performance Improvement practice collaborates as partners with management teams to identify and implement operational improvements that maximize value for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support Retail Performance Improvement team on client engagements in conducting analysis, developing recommendations around operation improvement initiatives.
• Execute multiple tasks across a consulting engagement including conducting interviews, operational/financial modeling and client presentations.
• Utilize business, finance, accounting, and analytical skills to perform tasks including retail performance analysis, financial modeling, and scenario planning.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a team environment; collaborate with RPI and BRG experts, professionals from other firms, and client contacts to achieve engagement objectives.
• Aid in the preparation of reports, written analyses, presentations, and other client deliverables.
• Participate in the development of a fast-growing, entrepreneurial consulting practice including assisting in marketing, client pitches, and product and practice development.
• Demonstrate the highest degree of professionalism, ethics, quality, and integrity.

Requirements

• Experience in a retail, direct to consumer or consumer goods environment and/or previous consulting with similar clients.
• Expertise in one or more of the following functions: direct sourcing, product to market, consumer analytics, digital experience, marketing, personalization, digital commerce, back-office operations, distribution and transportation, store and omni operations, indirect procurement.
• Experience with developing and managing financial and operational analysis as well as assisting to implement changes as result of analysis and observations.
• Experience with improving working capital and financial performance utilizing systems, tools, and bridge solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or degree equivalent in Business, Accounting/Finance, Management, Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, or related field plus 4 years of related consulting experience OR MBA with prior retail industry experience.
• Ability to manage and analyze large volumes of financial and operational data.
• Ability to interpret the results of qualitative and quantitative analysis and develop insights and recommendations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and a demonstrated ability to interact with junior and senior team members, senior management, and other stakeholders or professionals.
• Mature presence, empathy, intellectual curiosity, and ability to learn quickly.
• Strong problem solving and project management skills.
• Ability to work well independently or in a team dynamic.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize changing work demands and learn quickly.
• Advanced in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
• Willingness to travel when/if needed.

Benefits

This position offers advancement opportunities within a rapidly growing, dynamic and fast-paced consulting firm in an entrepreneurial environment.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this role is $90,000–$160,000.

Schedule

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the terms and conditions governing the program. Any award under the program is not guaranteed and is determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to individual and overall organizational performance.

About BRG

BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-class business expertise purpose-built for agility and connectivity, which sets us apart—and gets you ahead. At BRG, our top-tier professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of proven real-world experience to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges for organizations across the globe.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At BRG, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.