Experienced Consultant, Retail, C&IP Value Creation

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West Monroe is seeking an Experienced Consultantto join theRetail team within our Consumer & Industrials Value Creation group in the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) practice.

Our Consumer & Industrials Value Creation team helps corporate and private equity clients identify quantify and realize value creation opportunities before during and after transactions. We work alongside management teams and investors to improve operating performance accelerate transformation and deliver measurable business outcomes. Our retail-focused professionals bring deep industry expertise and practical execution experience to help clients improve profitability productivity customer experience and operational effectiveness.

We are seeking candidates who bring experience improving business performance in a retail or retail-adjacent environment with demonstrated ability to identify quantify and implement value creation opportunities across people process and technology. Successful candidates will combine retail operating knowledge process improvement methodologies analytical modeling capabilities and consulting delivery skills to drive measurable EBITDA improvement margin expansion labor productivity gains inventory optimization and service-level improvements.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business performance across store operations labor productivity inventory management merchandising supply chain customer experience and supporting corporate functions

• Develop Excel-based models and analyses to quantify operational opportunities business cases and expected financial impact

• Gather business requirements document current-state processes and identify opportunities for process optimization and standardization

• Facilitate process mapping workflow analysis and operational assessments to uncover performance improvement opportunities

• Measure and evaluate operational performance through KPI development dashboard reporting benchmarking and performance management frameworks

• Support the development of value creation roadmaps that align operational initiatives to EBITDA growth margin expansion and strategic business objectives

• Collaborate with cross-functional client stakeholders to implement process organizational and technology-enabled improvements

• Participate in project planning workplan development risk assessment and client deliverable creation

• Contribute to practice development through methodology enhancement knowledge sharing recruiting proposal support and thought leadership activities

• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis synthesize complex information and support data-driven recommendations forclientsexercisingsound judgment in evaluating outputs.

• Apply AI technologies (e.g. generative AI automation tools data models) to enhance insights improve delivery efficiencyand elevatethe quality of client outcomes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience required

• 2 years of experience working for a consulting firm or within a retail consumer products distribution or other retail-adjacent operating environment

• Experience improving business performance through operational process technology or organizational initiatives

• Strong understanding of retail operations and key business drivers including labor productivity inventory management customer service merchandising store operations and/or supply chain performance

• Strong Excel and analytical modeling capabilities with experience building business cases operational analyses and financial impact assessments

• Experience conducting business analysis operational assessments and performance improvement initiatives

• Experience with process mapping workflow analysis value stream mapping or related process improvement methodologies

• Ability to define measure and monitor KPIs to evaluate business and operational performance

• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generationcoupled withstrong critical thinking to assess accuracy mitigate bias and ensure high-quality outputs.

• Strong problem-solving quantitative analysis and structured communication skills

• Ability to synthesize complex information into actionable recommendations for executive stakeholders

• Experience supporting multiple workstreams and managing priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment

• Prior consulting experience preferred

• Experience with Lean continuous improvement operational excellence or productivity improvement methodologies preferred

• A commitment to inclusion and diversity and openness to new ideas and perspectives

• Ability to travel to client-site up to 75%

Were a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients delivering real-world solutions.

The combination of business and technology is not new but how we bring them together is unique. Were fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.

At West Monroe we zero in on the heart of the opportunity getting to results faster and preparing people for whats next.

Youll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. Were right there in the room with you co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe collaboration isnt a lofty promise but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.

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