About Centric Software:

Centric Software® is a global leader, providing an innovative and AI-enabled product-concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. We equip retail, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and consumer goods brands with pioneering best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. Our technology powers brands to streamline processes, drive efficiency and operate with confidence in an ever-changing market.

Our story is one of rapid growth, bold ideas and extraordinary opportunities. We’re here to challenge the status quo—and we’re looking for brilliant people who want to do the same. No matter where you are in the world, this is your chance to be part of something exceptional.

Job Summary:

Centric Software is looking for an experienced Business Consultant to join our growing planning team in Europe. The successful candidate should provide retail planning expertise and business knowledge in a rewarding and fast-moving environment. You will need to be an inspirational leader, driven to provide retail planning best practice to configure and design optimised planning solutions to our clients. You will be working directly with our clients, internal and external partners to lead the build and delivery of solution design and configuration requirements to provide best practice planning solutions. 

About the Team 

The Centric planning team are leading the market in the delivery of first-class planning solutions. A dynamic and driven team of technical and business experts building end to end planning systems and driving project delivery excellence . The team are all home based in different countries around Europe and are reporting into the Client Services Director. 

Key Responsibilities

• Support a successful business delivery team in planning across UK, Nordics and SA 
• Work closely with the delivery team to support all project related activities 
• Be a key senior point of contact to the Centric global teams, liase on all project and delivery aspects, work closely with Technical and Application consultants to ensure on-time and on-budget project deliveries 
• Work with clients to advise best business practice across the end-to planning product suite (focus on modules such as merchandise financial planning, range and assortment planning, forecasting, allocation, and replenishment) 
• Become the UK, Nordics and SA process expert offering client’s business process knowledge and support during key phases of the project 
• Work with the Centric global development teams to establish solution optimisation 
• Drive solution design workshops with clients across the region, supported by the Centric delivery teams 
• Establish centre of excellence for write up and control of all solution design documentation 
• Lead the transition of solution design into the product build team and ensure solutions meet the client requirements 
• Lead and support the key phases of user acceptance testing and key user training with the support of the Centric delivery teams 
• Play a role in new client pre-sales engagements, helping the client and the sales teams understand the business requirements and best practice based on best practice to offer the strongest solution proposal 
• Support the recruitment, build and development of project delivery teams 
• Attend key development workshops for product and delivery training 

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.