Associate Director Product OWNER Retail and CPG

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Company Description **We're Nagarro.** We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18,000+ experts across 40 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in! Job Description REQUIREMENTS: - Strong experience in **Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) consulting or industry**, with the majority of experience in Retail & CPG transformation initiatives. - Deep expertise leading **23 functional domains** across the Retail & CPG value chain, such as: - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - Merchandising - Planogramming - Logistics & Supply Chain - Store Operations - Field Operations - Demand Planning - Trade Promotion Management (TPM) - Category Management - Broad understanding of the complete Retail & CPG value chain with the ability to engage independently in CXO-level business discussions. - Strong understanding of Retail & CPG business drivers, including omnichannel retailing, margin optimization, SKU rationalization, private label strategy, seasonal demand, and fulfillment models. - Experience leading or playing a key role in large-scale transformation programs such as ERP modernization, PLM implementations, merchandising transformation, or supply chain re-platforming. - Proven experience driving client workshops, discovery sessions, business consulting engagements, and strategic advisory initiatives. - Hands-on experience developing domain frameworks, accelerators, benchmarks, reusable assets, and practice intellectual property (IP). - Strong experience supporting presales activities, solution design, proposal development, client presentations, and deal shaping. - Excellent stakeholder management, presentation, communication, mentoring, and leadership skills. - Experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering, consulting, and delivery teams. - Exposure to **AI/GenAI use cases in Retail**, including demand forecasting, intelligent merchandising, computer vision, agentic commerce, or store optimization, is preferred. - Prior experience building or contributing to a **Center of Excellence (COE)** or practice development is highly desirable. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Serve as the **Retail & CPG Domain Subject Matter Expert (SME)** and drive the strategic direction of the Retail practice. - Define and own domain point of views (POVs), industry frameworks, best practices, and consulting methodologies. - Lead executive workshops, business discovery sessions, and CXO-level consulting engagements. - Translate emerging Retail & CPG trends into reusable accelerators, solution offerings, benchmarks, and thought leadership assets. - Lead presales activities, including opportunity qualification, solutioning, proposal development, client presentations, and oral discussions. - Shape end-to-end solution strategies aligned with client business objectives and digital transformation initiatives. - Guide customers through business transformation across merchandising, supply chain, store operations, demand planning, and related Retail functions. - Mentor Senior Consultants and consulting teams while ensuring high-quality consulting deliverables and practice standards. - Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, product, and delivery teams to align business strategy with technology solutions. - Represent Nagarro in industry forums, conferences, analyst interactions, client events, and external thought leadership initiatives. - Contribute to practice growth by developing consulting assets, reusable methodologies, domain capabilities, and go-to-market strategies. - Support business development by identifying new opportunities, strengthening client relationships, and expanding Retail & CPG consulting engagements