Loop Consulting Group — Operating Model Design & Executive Advisory
Loop Consulting Group

Retail & Consumer

Australian Retailers Cannot Compete on Price Alone. The Ones That Win Do It With a Better Operating Model.

Cost-to-serve pressure, omnichannel complexity, and workforce retention challenges are not technology problems — they are structural ones. When head office functions have grown faster than revenue, when commercial and store operations are misaligned, and when the operating model was designed for a single-channel world, the consequences show up in margin, customer experience, and the inability to execute strategy consistently. Loop Consulting Group applies the OP3 Methodology™ to help Australian retailers design operating structures that deliver commercial discipline and customer experience at scale.

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What We Work On With Retail Businesses

Cost-to-serve reduction

We conduct spans-and-layers analysis to identify management overhead and process duplication, then design a target operating model that delivers better commercial outcomes with a leaner structure.

Omnichannel operating model design

We resolve the accountability questions that prevent retailers from operating effectively across channels — defining who owns the customer, how commercial decisions are made, and how channel conflict is managed.

Commercial and store operations alignment

We design the governance structures that align buying, merchandising, marketing and store operations around shared commercial outcomes rather than competing functional priorities.

Workforce capability and retention

We design capability frameworks that reduce frontline turnover by clarifying role expectations, building consistent performance management, and creating the development pathways that make people want to stay.

Loop Insights

Relevant Reading for Retail Leaders

Leadership & Strategy

The Real Cost of Misaligned Leadership

Leadership misalignment is not a soft problem. It has a hard commercial cost that most businesses never measure.

Strategy Execution

Why Your Business Isn't Hitting Its Strategic Numbers

The strategy is not the problem. The operating model that is supposed to execute it is.

Ready to build an operating model that competes on more than price?

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