Data & AI Consulting Manager / Senior Manager in Consumer & Retail

As a Data & AI Consultant within our Consumer & Retail practice, you will work with clients from initial discovery through to implementation. You'll help shape proposals, build business cases, lead workstreams, and act as the link between senior client stakeholders and EPAM's engineering and data science teams. Your focus will be on advanced analytics and AI use cases, including forecasting, pricing and elasticity modelling, attribution, and scenario simulations.

While you won't develop the models yourself, you'll be responsible for ensuring the right solutions are designed, aligned to business objectives, and capable of delivering measurable value. You understand the Consumer & Retail industry: its commercial dynamics, margin pressures, operational challenges, and complex decision-making processes. You've seen data and AI initiatives fail to deliver, whether through strategies that never reached implementation, models that were never adopted, or dashboards that answered the wrong questions.

You want to bridge the gap between business needs and practical solutions, working closely with technical teams to ensure ideas become outcomes.

Shape pursuits and proposals: contribute to presales from the start — defining the problem, scoping the approach, and building EPAM’s value narrative for Consumer & Retail clients Lead client discovery: facilitate workshops with commercial, category and supply chain leadership, frame the real problem — not just the stated one — a