Remote Senior Retail Strategy & AI Operations Advisor

24-Mag Llc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

24-MAG LLC offers a full-time remote consulting opportunity for US-based senior retail professionals specializing in merchandising, category management, buying, planning, and retail operations. You will design tasks, evaluate AI outputs, develop rubrics, and provide actionable feedback grounded in extensive retail experience.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in retail, strong commercial judgment, and proven ability to assess complex retail decisions.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of dedicated professional experience in retail.
• Senior-level expertise in merchandising, category management, buying, planning, retail operations.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs using structured rubrics or scoring criteria.
• Career progression into senior management or leadership roles.
• Strong commercial judgment and ability to assess complex retail decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Reliable availability for at least 35 hours per week during weekdays.

Responsibilities

• Guide research and engineering teams on merchandising, category management, assortment planning, buying, and retail operations
• Identify gaps in model understanding across pricing, inventory, promotions, customer demand, store performance, and commercial planning
• Apply practical retail judgment to complex scenarios involving products, channels, suppliers, customers, and financial objectives
• Ensure retail tasks reflect realistic business decisions and current industry practices
• Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks grounded in real retail practice
• Write accurate, well-reasoned solutions covering merchandising, category, buying, planning, and operational scenarios
• Develop problems requiring commercial judgment, prioritisation, data interpretation, and evaluation of competing trade-offs
• Ensure tasks are clear, internally consistent, and suitable for structured assessment
• Evaluate AI-generated retail responses against established rubrics and scoring criteria
• Assess correctness, commercial judgment, reasoning quality, relevance, and practical applicability
• Compare alternative outputs and determine which response provides the stronger retail recommendation
• Identify factual errors, unsupported assumptions, weak commercial reasoning, and incomplete conclusions
• Provide clear written feedback that supports improvements in model behaviour
• Develop and refine evaluation guidelines for merchandising, category management, planning, and retail operations tasks
• Define scoring criteria covering technical accuracy, commercial judgment, reasoning, and execution feasibility
• Participate in calibration activities with other retail specialists
• Collaborate across teams to maintain consistency and accuracy throughout the training data

Skills

Merchandising

Category management

Buying

Planning

Retail operations

Senior-level experience

Education

Business administration or related degree

Graduate-level business/strategy/operations analytics

Equivalent senior professional experience in retail strategy/operations

Job description

24-MAG LLC offers a full-time remote consulting opportunity for US-based senior retail professionals specializing in merchandising, category management, buying, planning, and retail operations. You will design tasks, evaluate AI outputs, develop rubrics, and provide actionable feedback grounded in extensive retail experience.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in retail, strong commercial judgment, and proven ability to assess complex retail decisions.