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TRCD-26-04811
Retail & Supply Chain Simulation / Optimization Consultant (Grocery Retail)
Contract role in Bengaluru for a 4–8 year professional with strong grocery/food retail supply chain and store operations understanding, who can lead structured problem discovery with stakeholders and translate ambiguous business questions into implementation-ready simulation scenarios. The role focuses on analysing retail and supply chain data, defining KPIs and baselines, running scenario/root-cause analyses, and partnering with data science/engineering to validate data and modelling assumptions. Strong consulting-style problem solving, stakeholder management, and executive-ready communication are essential, along with hands-on analytics using Excel and statistical/modelling tools (Python/R/SAS) and familiarity with optimisation/simulation tooling and retail space planning/planogram concepts.
Position summary
- Location
- India
- Workplace
- On-site
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Minimum 4 years and Maximum 8 years
Role overview
Why This Role Matters.
Contract role in Bengaluru for a 4–8 year professional with strong grocery/food retail supply chain and store operations understanding, who can lead structured problem discovery with stakeholders and translate ambiguous business questions into implementation-ready simulation scenarios. The role focuses on analysing retail and supply chain data, defining KPIs and baselines, running scenario/root-cause analyses, and partnering with data science/engineering to validate data and modelling assumptions. Strong consulting-style problem solving, stakeholder management, and executive-ready communication are essential, along with hands-on analytics using Excel and statistical/modelling tools (Python/R/SAS) and familiarity with optimisation/simulation tooling and retail space planning/planogram concepts.
Your Impact
Deliver Enterprise Value
Help organisations solve complex business problems through modern technology, consulting expertise and measurable outcomes.
Collaboration
Work Across Teams
Collaborate with consultants, architects, engineers and client stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Growth
Learn Continuously
Gain exposure to enterprise technologies, certifications, mentoring and real-world project experience.
Career Path
Grow With Ubique
Build a long-term consulting career with opportunities to take on greater responsibility and leadership over time.
Responsibilities
What You'll Be Doing.
Every role at Ubique contributes directly to solving meaningful business challenges for our clients.
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Translate loosely defined business questions into clear work plans and detailed simulation scenarios, specifying inputs, policy levers, assumptions, constraints, outputs and KPIs in an implementation-ready format.
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Analyse retail and supply chain data to establish baselines, identify patterns and performance gaps, test hypotheses, assess scenarios and quantify potential impact across availability, inventory, waste, cost, margin and service.
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Partner with data science and engineering teams to validate data availability and quality, align modelling assumptions and ensure each use case reflects operating processes, system constraints and business rules.
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Lead stakeholder engagement across business, product, technology and data science teams by facilitating workshops, managing competing priorities, constructively challenging assumptions and driving decisions on scope, value and success criteria.
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Develop concise, client-ready outputs—including problem statements, analyses, recommendations, business cases, executive presentations and implementation roadmaps—that communicate complex findings clearly to senior audiences.
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Support execution on the simulation platform by reviewing outputs, validating results with subject-matter experts, refining scenarios based on evidence and feedback, and tracking whether recommendations deliver measurable business value. What we are looking for
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Proven stakeholder management experience, including engaging senior leaders, facilitating cross-functional workshops, navigating conflicting viewpoints and influencing decisions without formal authority.
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Clear written, verbal and visual communication skills, with the ability to synthesise complex analyses into executive-level messages, compelling storylines and pragmatic recommendations.
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Ability to move between strategy and detail, maintaining an end-to-end perspective while defining precise use cases, requirements, assumptions and measures at an executable level.
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A proactive, hypothesis-led and outcome-focused mindset, with the resilience to work through ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, iterate quickly and maintain momentum without waiting for a perfect brief.
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A collaborative and pragmatic working style, with intellectual curiosity, attention to detail and a strong focus on measurable value realisation rather than activity or feature delivery.
Technology stack
Tools & Technologies.
The platforms and technologies you'll use to build modern, enterprise-grade solutions.
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Python
Required
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R
Required
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SAS
Required
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PuLP
Required
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Gurobi
Required
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SimPy
Required
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Excel
Required
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Solver
Required
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VBA
Required
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SQL
Required
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Power BI
Required
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Tableau
Required
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Looker
Required
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JDA
Required
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Blue Yonder
Required
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Nielsen Spaceman
Required
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simulation
Required
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optimisation
Required
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mathematical modelling
Required
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statistical analysis
Required
Requirements
Skills & Experience.
We value curiosity, collaboration and continuous learning. If you don't meet every requirement but believe you can make an impact, we'd still love to hear from you.
Essential
Required Qualifications
Grocery/food & beverage retail supply chain knowledge (planning, procurement, logistics, store operations)
End-to-end retail value chain understanding (forecasting, inventory/replenishment, fulfilment, logistics, store ops)
Structured problem solving (issue trees, hypothesis-driven analysis, ambiguity framing)
Quantitative analysis on large/imperfect datasets; KPI definition; root-cause and scenario analysis; impact quantification
Stakeholder management (senior leaders, cross-functional workshops, influencing without authority)
Executive-level communication (written, verbal, visual storytelling)
Simulation scenario design (inputs, assumptions, constraints, policy levers, outputs, KPIs)
Statistical analysis / mathematical modelling using Python or R or SAS
Simulation/optimisation tools or libraries (PuLP, Gurobi, SimPy or equivalent)
Advanced Excel (Solver, pivot tables, VBA macros)
Working knowledge of SQL for data extraction/querying
Retail simulations and use of sales/customer/market data for space/range/assortment impact forecasting
Planograms/space planning experience (space plans, shelf-space allocation, seasonal demand response)
Preferred
Nice to Have
Power BI or similar BI tools
Tableau
Looker
Retail space-planning/planogram software (JDA, Blue Yonder, Nielsen Spaceman or equivalent)
Advanced degree (MSc/MBA)
What you'll gain
More Than Just A Job.
We're committed to helping every team member grow professionally, personally and technically while working on meaningful projects.
Global Exposure
Collaborate with international clients and multicultural teams on enterprise programmes.
Continuous Learning
Expand your expertise through mentoring, certifications and hands-on project experience.
Career Growth
Take ownership, develop leadership skills and grow your consulting career over time.
Flexible Working
Hybrid and remote collaboration designed around trust and delivering exceptional outcomes.
People First
Join a supportive culture where collaboration, respect and long-term relationships come first.
Enterprise Projects
Work on meaningful technology initiatives for leading organisations across industries.
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