Senior leadership across product development, ecommerce and physical retail, branded and private-label models, FMCG and CFTA.
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.
Work with KiveshFounder & Principal Consultant
Kivesh Budooram
Berlin, GermanyA 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.”
Operating experience across Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, MENA and North America.
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.
Shift Consulting Services
Founder & Principal ConsultantProduct-development process and technology transformation, retail strategy, inventory optimisation and end-to-end planning transformation for international retailers and brands.
Zalando
Senior merchandise & planning leadershipLed large commercial categories and cross-functional teams in a €12B European ecommerce environment.
International retail
Merchandising, product development & commercial leadershipBuilt 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.
Selected experience and collaborations; logos and names remain the property of their respective organisations.
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