Senior Manager – CPG Retail Consulting

Senior Manager – CPG Retail Consulting Overview

This is a senior consulting leadership role within Wipro’s consumer-focused practice, based in London. The position sits inside the broader consulting organisation and is aimed at someone who can help expand the business, strengthen strategic client relationships, and lead transformation work that delivers measurable commercial value. The role is positioned at the intersection of business development, delivery leadership, and thought leadership, with a strong emphasis on consumer industries and large enterprise clients.

Wipro describes itself as a global technology services and consulting company focused on helping clients solve complex digital transformation challenges. The consulting arm supports end-to-end business transformation, from insight generation through to execution, and works across industries including financial services, communications and media, consumer, energy, utilities, healthcare and life sciences, and manufacturing. The company says it is building a modern, reinvention-led organisation and wants people who are motivated by change, learning, and continuous evolution.

What the role involves

• Leading major transformation and people programmes that produce clear business outcomes.
• Growing senior-level client relationships and acting as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders.
• Creating, pursuing, and closing consulting opportunities that support profitable growth.
• Managing complex engagements delivered across multiple locations and teams, with responsibility for commercial performance.
• Coaching and developing consulting teams so they become stronger performers and future leaders.
• Helping shape the practice’s market-facing message through thought leadership, propositions, and go-to-market activity.
• Supporting the growth of strategic accounts by using current capabilities, emerging capabilities, and new growth areas.
• Advising clients on consumer transformation topics such as agentic AI for the digital supply chain, intelligent stores, omnichannel customer experience, third-party logistics and transportation, sales and marketing, target operating models, and cost optimisation.
• Creating opportunities for other Wipro Consulting capabilities and for the wider Wipro ecosystem to contribute to client work.
• Acting as a visible advocate for consumer industries and helping position Wipro as a strategic partner for long-term value creation.
• Driving transformation agendas by defining propositions and shaping engagements that use both established and disruptive technologies to solve business problems.
• Managing change, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring strategic execution across clients, partners, and internal teams.
• Applying strong consulting discipline in areas such as project and programme management, executive communication, storytelling, and commercial management.
• Contributing original market insight through publications, blogs, white papers, speaking opportunities, analyst engagement, and active use of social media to strengthen Wipro’s brand.

Practice and client context

The role sits in Wipro’s consumer consulting practice, which serves clients across CPG, retail, travel and transportation, food and agriculture, and professional services. The successful candidate is expected to help grow strategic accounts, bring fresh ideas to the market, and support the firm’s broader transformation agenda. The position is not limited to delivery alone; it also requires someone who can identify opportunities, shape them into compelling propositions, and convert them into business.

What Wipro is looking for

• Strong experience in consumer-sector consulting, with a deep understanding of the industry and a history of delivering strategic initiatives.
• Evidence of generating consulting revenue from both new and existing accounts.
• Confidence leading client relationships and working effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Excellent leadership, communication, networking, and relationship-building skills across clients, partners, and internal teams.
• A proactive, self-sufficient approach that supports business development while also building personal utilisation in a sell-and-deliver model after onboarding.
• Experience delivering multi-shore consulting projects with distributed teams.
• Ability to define transformation propositions and engagement approaches using core and disruptive technologies to create measurable business value for large enterprises.
• Capability to lead strategic execution, manage change, build relationships, motivate teams, and deliver outcomes.
• Strong consulting and programme management discipline, including project/programme management, executive storytelling, communication, and commercial judgement.
• A collaborative and motivating leadership style that can align diverse teams around shared goals.
• Experience mentoring and developing talent into future consulting leaders.
• Ability to work with HR and recruitment partners to support people strategy and attract diverse talent.
• Strong opinions on the key issues facing CxOs in the region, with the ability to turn those views into practical propositions.
• Comfort engaging with industry leaders and analysts on market trends.
• Experience producing external-facing content such as publications, blogs, white papers, and speaking contributions.
• Effective use of social media and digital channels to enhance brand presence.

Culture and inclusion

Wipro says it is committed to an inclusive workplace and equal opportunity for all, regardless of age, cultural background, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics. The company also states that it welcomes applicants who may only meet part of the listed criteria, emphasising curiosity, willingness to learn, and a readiness to share knowledge. Applications from people with disabilities are explicitly encouraged.

The organisation also highlights its broader purpose-led culture, including sustainability, social good, and a long-standing commitment to being a catalyst for positive change. Employees are expected to reflect Wipro’s five habits for success: being respectful, being responsive, always communicating, demonstrating stewardship, and building trust.

Support during recruitment

Wipro states that reasonable accommodation will be provided to applicants, including people with disabilities, throughout the recruitment and selection process. Where possible, candidates are asked to communicate accommodation needs in advance so they can be reviewed individually.

How to apply

Applicants can use the on-page application flow to apply directly, including the option to start the process through LinkedIn. The posting also includes guidance for reporting suspicious recruitment activity and directs complaints about unethical or unfair hiring practices to Wipro’s Ombuds Group. Candidates are advised not to send resumes to the general helpdesk email address, as it is not monitored for applications.

The role is posted for London, and the page does not provide any additional working arrangement details beyond that location.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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