Senior Consultant

Tarka Talent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A P.E Backed Logistics Company is seeking a highly analytical Senior Consultant/Commercial Analyst for a hybrid role based in London. This 3-6 month contract involves building network optimisation models, supporting CRM implementation, and producing commercial insights. The ideal candidate will have experience in consulting, strong analytical skills, and familiarity with tools like Power BI. This role emphasizes stakeholder engagement across various business functions, facilitating data-driven commercial recommendations.

Qualifications

• Previous experience within a similar role in Consulting.
• Proven experience in a commercial analyst, business analyst, or supply chain analyst role.
• Experience supporting CRM tools including implementation and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support configuration and roll-out of a Group CRM system across multiple sites.
• Build and maintain network optimisation models.
• Produce reporting outputs from CRM including pipeline and customer segmentation.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Stakeholder management skills

Experience with CRM tools

Experience using BI/reporting tools

Understanding of logistics and supply chain

Tools

Salesforce

Power BI

Dynamics

HubSpot

Job description

Overview

My Client is a P.E Backed Logistics / Warehousing / Supply Chain Company that are seeking a highly analytical and commercially minded Senior Consultant / Commercial Analyst to support the Group Commercial function in delivering improved customer insight, optimised network decision-making, and enhanced sales effectiveness across the business. This is a hybrid role, based at their London office (with travel to UK operational sites when required) and is a 3-6 month contract to start.

This role will play a key part in building and maintaining network optimisation models to support pricing, capacity planning and customer allocation decisions, and will also support the implementation and roll-out of a Group CRM, including data mapping, cleansing, and reporting development.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working with complex datasets, stakeholders across multiple business units, and translating analysis into actionable commercial recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

• CRM Implementation & Commercial Reporting:
• Support the configuration and roll-out of a Group CRM system across multiple business units/sites.
• Lead on data mapping and data quality, including:
• Cleaning and standardising data fields
• Defining consistent group-wide customer/account structures
• Work closely with stakeholders to implement best practice CRM processes including pipeline stages, opportunity definitions, and sales activity tracking.
• Produce reporting outputs from CRM (e.g., pipeline, win/loss, customer segmentation, sales performance).
• Build, maintain and enhance network optimisation models to support strategic and operational decisions across the cold storage network.
• Analyse volumes, customer profiles, cost-to-serve, and service requirements to recommend optimal network allocation.
• Support commercial and operational teams with insights into:
• Capacity utilisation and forecasting
• Customer profitability and cost-to-serve
• Route/network trade-offs and consolidation opportunities
• Scenario planning for new customer wins and network changes

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work collaboratively across commercial, operations, finance and IT teams to ensure models and systems reflect real operational constraints and opportunities.
• Present insights clearly to senior leaders, including recommendations and next steps.
• Help drive standardisation of commercial performance reporting across the group.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Previous experience within a similar role in Consulting.
• Proven experience in a commercial analyst, business analyst, supply chain analyst or similar role.
• Experience supporting CRM tools (implementation, reporting, data management) such as Salesforce, Dynamics, HubSpot, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work with large and varied datasets.
• Experience using BI/reporting tools such as Power BI (or similar).
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to work across functions.
• Comfortable translating technical analysis into commercial actions and recommendations.
• Experience in logistics, warehousing, supply chain,
• Experience in network design / optimisation modelling (even if using “simpler” modelling approaches).
• Familiarity with data governance and master data management concepts.

Please apply here, or on 07808 782801 / [e-mail] for further info.