Freelance Consulting Mission : Business Analyst Retail Mission

Type: Freelance
Duration: 2 months+ starting June, pause in august, a few weeks in september
Location: Poland
Assignment
We are supporting a major retail / consumer player in Poland on a strategic business planning mission.
Management has defined ambitious topline objectives, but now needs to quantify, stress-test and model the operational levers required to deliver the plan.
This is a highly analytical assignment focused on:
modelling growth scenarios levers
sizing business levers
validating assumptions
translating strategy into numbers
building a robust business plan grounded in operational reality
The project will examine growth drivers such as:
store expansion pace / rollout economics
like-for-like sales improvement
productivity uplift in existing stores
assortment / merchandising optimisation
pricing and promotional elasticity
e-commerce contribution
margin implications / operating leverage
capital deployment / ROI by initiative
Responsibilities
Structure the business planning workstream
Define modelling hypotheses
Challenge management assumptions
Quantify upside / downside scenarios
Build steering logic around growth levers
Translate findings into executive recommendations
Coordinate analyst support
This is not pure slide strategy consulting.
This is business-model architecture and lever quantification.

Ideal profile
ex consulting / corporate strategy / transaction services / FP&A leadership
Polish language native
Very good english
Background in retail or retail experience
If possible notions of french

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