About the Role

In FTI Consulting's Corporate Finance & Restructuring organization, we focus on our clients' strategic, operational, financial and capital needs by addressing the full spectrum of financial and transactional opportunities faced by corporations, boards, private equity sponsors, creditor constituencies and other stakeholders.

Within FTI Consulting, the Retail and Consumer Products group is building a management consulting practice that transforms the financial and business performance of the industry's top players. We partner with our clients to solve their most critical opportunities and challenges ranging from strategic growth to performance improvement.

What You'll Do

Senior Consultants are critical team members that execute client engagements and successfully partner with clients in delivery. Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Proactively develop solutions to problems through management interviews, data analysis, site observations, and other applicable strategies
• Disaggregate complex business problems, manage ambiguity, and navigate through adverse situations to develop hypotheses-focused analyses and recommendations
• Examples of typical project focus areas include:
• SG&A Cost Reduction
• Business Plan Review
• Store labor and retail operations optimization
• SKU / vendor profitability and rationalization
• Inventory optimization
• Direct procurement costing
• Customer and channel profitability
• Develop original insights and recommendations and prepare clear, well written documents to facilitate discussions with clients and drive impact
• Communicate and present work product, analyses, and recommendations to senior leaders and to clients
• Support full range of project management responsibilities, including managing deadlines, staff hours and expectations (status reports, agendas, data room, report assembly, etc.)
• Participate in business development activities, creating proposals, developing company perspectives, and researching industry trends
• Contribute to internal practice development tasks such as learning & development, recruiting, and knowledge repositories including case studies, toolkits, playbooks, etc.
• Support consultants and other senior consultants
  

How You'll Grow

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a growing and dynamic team, with unlimited opportunities for professional development and hands-on training and coaching from our experienced leadership team. You will be given the opportunity to lead project based workstreams and have the added responsibility of managing more junior staff.

In addition, you will be able to contribute directly to the building of the team through business development initiatives, such as creating pitch decks, drafting Thought Leadership articles and helping manage the recruiting process. Our small but growing team provides successful candidates the opportunity to frequently participate in new experiences and develop outside their client work.

Basic Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree with emphasis on Finance, Supply Chain, Data Analysis, or another technical field (MBA preferred)
• A minimum of 3 years of experience with either a management consulting firm, a top-tier retail / consumer products company, a private equity firm, or an investment bank
• Preferred experience working with Retail or Consumer Products companies supporting cost optimization, process improvement, or key functional activities (e.g., Supply Chain, Merchandising, Finance)
• Experience with review and analysis of key financial statements
• Excellent analytical skills, with proven experience in data cleansing, building models, distilling insights, and creating recommendations to resolve complex problems
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills; particularly with Excel and PowerPoint
• Preferred experience with various tools such as Access / SQL, Excel Macro / VBA, Think-cell, and/or Tableau or other business analytics tools
• Strong project planning and time management; ability to work with limited supervision on assigned workstreams
• Demonstrated passion for driving change and ability to drive impact for clients
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including collaborative work style, problems solving and conceptual thinking skills
• Desire to act as mentors for more junior colleagues
• Ability to travel up to 80%
• COVID Vaccine required*
  

• Individuals seeking an exemption from this requirement for medical or religious reasons should complete a request for accommodation form and submit the form to your recruiter.Our Benefits

• Apart from the well-structured career path and excellent team environment, our employees enjoy a variety of perks and benefits. Our benefits include, but are not limited to:
• Competitive salary and bonus plans
• Generous paid holidays, time off and parental leave
• Full package of benefits plans
• Company matched 401K
• Annual paid volunteer hours
• Corporate matching for charitable donations
• Potential for flexible working arrangements
• Free snacks and drinks
• Upscale offices close to public transportation
• Pet insurance
  

About FTI Consulting

What makes us unique? With more than 6,250 employees located in offices in every corner of the globe, we are the firm our clients call when their most important issues are at stake. Regardless of what level you are, you will have the opportunity to work alongside and learn from top experts in your field on high-profile engagements that impact history. Our culture is collaborative, and we value diversity, recognition, development and making a difference in our communities.

FTI Consulting is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and has been recognized as a Best Firm to Work For byConsulting magazineand one of America's Best Management Consulting Firms byForbes. For more information, visit www.fticonsulting.com and connect with us on Twitter ( @FTIConsulting ), Facebook and LinkedIn .

FTI Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.