Operations Senior Associate Retail Planning Consultant | MILANO [ADV]
Core
Retail Planning Consultant supporting Fashion, Grocery, and F&B clients in optimizing Merchandise & Assortment Planning processes and implementing multidimensional planning solutions.
Role type
Senior Associate Retail Planning Consultant
Builds
Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP), Open-to-Buy (OTB), Budgeting, Assortment Planning, Allocation & Replenishment, Space & Planogram Planning, Pricing, Promotion & Markdown Optimization, Demand Forecasting, and S&OP Retail.
Domain
Retail / Fashion / Grocery / Food & Beverage
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Retail Planning, Merchandise Planning, Assortment Planning, Open-to-Buy (OTB), Allocation & Replenishment, Space Planning, Pricing & Markdown Optimization, Demand Forecasting, S&OP, Multidimensional Planning, CENTRIC PLANNING, Board, Anaplan, TXT Retail, Intelo, ERP, POS, CRM, e-commerce, Data Migration, Data Quality, Process Mapping, KPI Frameworks, Change Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Functional & Technical Documentation, Master Data Management, Workflow Configuration, Integration, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, UAT, Defect Resolution, Business Case Development, Roadmap Creation, Value Assessment, International Team Collaboration, Problem Solving, Business Requirement Translation, IT Transformation, AI/ML in Retail.
Preferred skills
AI/ML in Retail Planning, International Team Collaboration, IT Transformation Projects.
Technologies
CENTRIC PLANNING, Board, Anaplan, TXT Retail, Intelo, ERP, POS, CRM, e-commerce
Responsibilities
Analyze client Retail Planning processes to identify gaps and improvement opportunities; Design target planning processes, governance models, and KPI frameworks; Collect business requirements and document to-be processes; Prepare deliverables including process maps, business cases, roadmaps, and value assessments; Support change management and training for new processes and tools; Configure and implement multidimensional planning models on CENTRIC PLANNING platform; Define master data, configure cubes/models, workflows, and integrations with core systems; Participate in testing activities and defect resolution; Support data migration and data quality activities; Contribute to functional and technical documentation; Plan and execute project activities within timelines; Build strong relationships with client stakeholders; Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams; Interpret data and insights to formulate operational excellence recommendations.
Seniority
Senior Associate, hands-on IC