Diagnose adoption stalls by analyzing override analytics — identifying where and why humans deviate from model recommendations and routing structured findings back to model owners
Stakeholder Management & Internal Consulting
Build and maintain trusted relationships with business partners across Merchandising, Inventory Planning, Sourcing, Design, and Costing — acting as their primary point of contact for all things related to DS model adoption
Conduct structured discovery with business teams to diagnose adoption barriers, surface unmet needs, and develop tailored enablement plans by function and brand
Develop and deliver executive-ready presentations, model explainability briefs, and quarterly business impact reports for senior stakeholders up to VP and SVP level
Facilitate workshops, working sessions, and office hours that bring data science outputs to life for non-technical audiences
Proactively manage a portfolio of business relationships — tracking open issues, commitments, and follow-through with a high standard of reliability and responsiveness
Serve as the voice of the business back into the DS team, synthesizing stakeholder feedback and routing prioritized signal to model owners and engineers
Workflow Integration & Change Management
Partner with business users and DS domain leads to redesign human-AI workflows so that model recommendations are embedded naturally in existing tools — PLM, planning platforms, costing tools, and sourcing systems — rather than requiring users to change behavior
Train and coach business stakeholders on AI model interpretation, appropriate use, and feedback mechanisms; build repeatable onboarding materials that scale across brands
Contribute to the institutional DS Enablement playbook, documenting what works, what doesn't, and how to accelerate adoption for future model launches
Who You Are
3–6 years of experience in management consulting, customer success, or a client-facing analytics role; experience in a high-accountability, client-facing or internal consulting function is strongly preferred
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple senior stakeholder relationships simultaneously with a high standard of responsiveness, follow-through, and structured communication
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — able to write crisp executive briefs, structure a compelling slide, and present confidently to VP-level audiences without relying on jargon
Comfort operating in ambiguity: able to take an open-ended business problem, frame it clearly, and drive it to a concrete recommendation or deliverable without constant direction
Sufficient data literacy to work credibly alongside a Data Science team — comfortable with concepts such as model accuracy, confidence intervals, feature importance, A/B testing, and business KPIs; does not need to build models but must be able to interrogate and interpret them
Proficiency in SQL and/or Python for pulling data, building adoption metrics, and supporting light analytics; experience with Tableau, Looker, Power BI, or equivalent for dashboard development
Experience designing and running structured experiments or pilots, with the ability to interpret results and translate statistical findings into plain-language business impact
Familiarity with retail business processes — particularly Merchandising, Inventory Planning, Allocation, or Sourcing — is a meaningful advantage; multi-brand or omnichannel experience is a plus
High-agency work style: proactively identifies blockers, manages up clearly, and brings a proposed solution alongside every problem
Familiarity with MLOps concepts (model cards, drift monitoring, override analytics) is a plus; experience partnering with Data Science or Engineering teams in a previous role is an advantage
