Theah works with retail, ecommerce, and marketplace businesses on two connected areas of commercial performance: what you charge, and what you stock. Engagements are typically fractional (ongoing, part-time) or project-based, depending on what the business needs.
Pricing, promotions, and markdown decisions are often made on instinct or inherited habit rather than data — a common gap in businesses that scaled fast before building pricing discipline. This service brings structure and rigour to how pricing decisions get made, and makes sure the strategy actually gets built, not just recommended.
What's included:
Background: six years leading revenue management and pricing at Farfetch, one of the world's largest luxury marketplaces, including a benchmarking strategy that balanced competitiveness against grey-market competitors with complex brand-governance requirements across a multi-brand marketplace; an embedded secondment on Waitrose's pricing and promotions team.
As businesses scale — particularly into new channels like marketplaces or wholesale — product ranges often grow organically rather than strategically, leading to overstocking in the wrong places, poor sell-through, and margin erosion. This service works alongside your existing merchandising and buying teams: they make the product and fashion calls, this ensures the range, stock, and margin decisions behind those calls are commercially sound.
What's included:
Background: Supply Planning Manager and Commercial Planning leadership at Farfetch; category and range strategy projects at OC&C Strategy Consultants.
Most engagements start with a short diagnostic phase — reviewing current pricing, promotional, or range data and decision-making — followed by recommendations, and optionally ongoing support through implementation.