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Senior Consultant, Investment Optimization & Performance

Cincinnati, OH

$78,000-$121,000 / year

full-timeseniorRetail Data Science

Tech Stack

Description

As a Senior Consultant, you will support Kroger and CPG partners by delivering investment reporting, identifying growth opportunities, and translating data into actionable insights. You'll partner with stakeholders to drive adoption of internal tools and embed insights into decision-making.

Requirements

  • 2–4 years of experience in analytics, retail/CPG, category management, revenue growth management, finance, or consulting.
  • Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel; experience with BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) and/or SQL preferred.
  • Ability to translate data into clear insights, recommendations, and executive-ready storytelling.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable working 'shoulder to shoulder' with internal teams and external partners.
  • Experience building repeatable reporting processes, dashboards, or performance scorecards with consistent definitions.
  • Project management fundamentals: prioritization, tracking actions, and delivering against timelines in a cross-functional environment.
  • Change management mindset: ability to support training, adoption, and process improvements to embed new tools.
  • High attention to detail and comfort working with complex data sets and ambiguous problem statements.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain standardized reporting and analysis related to investments, spend, and performance.
  • Deliver executive level reporting that provides a single source of truth on investment health, and performance.
  • Analyze investment trends to identify risks, opportunities, and areas for improvement across investment portfolios.
  • Develop actionable insights and recommendations to optimize investment allocation across programs, categories, and time periods.
  • Monitor performance indicators and flag emerging trends or issues.
  • Partner with Kroger teams and key CPGs to review performance, align on priorities, and track actions through to execution.
  • Monitor KPIs and performance outcomes; communicate performance narratives that connect data and insights to broader business objectives.
  • Support development of capability requirements (data, reporting, measurement, governance) to inform the roadmap of internal tools.
  • Ensure data quality and consistency by validating inputs, aligning definitions, and improving reporting workflows.
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