Data & AI Consulting Manager / Senior Manager in Consumer & Retail - German Market

You deeply understand Consumer & Retail: commercial mechanics, margin pressures, time-draining processes, and decisions made on gut feel when the data should be driving the strategy. And you've watched data and AI initiatives fall short — strategies that never became products, models that were technically impressive but sat on the shelf, and dashboards that answered the wrong questions. You want to be the person who closes that gap — who translates a real business problem into a solution that actually gets built and adopted, working alongside engineers and data scientists who can make it happen.

As a Data & AI Consultant in our Consumer & Retail practice, you will be involved from the first client conversation — shaping proposals, leading discovery, building the business case, and owning the workstream that takes an idea to production. You will bridge senior client stakeholders and EPAM’s engineering and data science teams, setting direction and ensuring both sides are pulling in the same direction. The center of gravity is advanced and predictive analytics combined with AI — spanning forecasting, elasticity modeling, scenario simulations, causal attribution, generative AI use cases, and machine learning models.

You will not be building the models yourself, but you will be responsible for whether the right ones are being built — judging whether an approach fits the business question, agreeing on what accuracy is good enough to meet business goals, and defining how it will be