About Shift Consulting Services

Commercial experience. Consulting discipline. Human delivery.

Shift Consulting Services was founded by Kivesh Budooram to help retail leaders make complex change clearer, more commercial and more usable.

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Founder & Principal Consultant

Kivesh Budooram

Berlin, Germany

A retailer's perspective

I understand the pressure behind the decision.

I built my career inside retail—owning commercial outcomes, leading teams and making decisions where customer demand, product, stock, margin and time all compete.

That perspective shapes how I consult. I ask direct questions, make the commercial logic visible and stay close enough to the detail to ensure the answer can actually work. The objective is not dependency; it is a better decision system and a team that is confident using it.

“Good transformation makes the right decision easier to see—and easier to repeat.”
Retail breadthEcommerce & stores

Senior leadership across product development, ecommerce and physical retail, branded and private-label models, FMCG and CFTA.

Geographic range45 countries

Operating experience across Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, MENA and North America.

Commercial scale€12B

Scale of retail business experience, with direct commercial accountability and transformation work across a multi-billion-euro stock base.

Selected experience

A career built around commercial performance and change.

2024—Now

Shift Consulting Services

Founder & Principal Consultant

Product-development process and technology transformation, retail strategy, inventory optimisation and end-to-end planning transformation for international retailers and brands.

2017—2023

Zalando

Senior merchandise & planning leadership

Led large commercial categories and cross-functional teams in a €12B European ecommerce environment.

Earlier career

International retail

Merchandising, product development & commercial leadership

Built broad experience across FMCG and CFTA—clothing, footwear, textiles and accessories—including fashion and sports, across branded and private-label businesses in Europe, MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa and North America.

Selected company experience

Experience shaped inside—and alongside—distinctive businesses.

Consulting and delivery partners

Selected experience and collaborations; logos and names remain the property of their respective organisations.

A direct conversation

Bring the real challenge. We can start there.

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