Power BI Consultant for Retail Sales and Assortment Dashboards

A Power BI consultant designs the data model, writes the DAX measures and builds the reports that turn a company’s data into answers its teams use. The work also covers data preparation, refresh, access rights and handover. For retail brands, I start with the KPI definitions and the meetings the reports have to serve.

A good retail dashboard answers the questions of one meeting on one page: how sales, sell-through, stock cover and margin are moving, and where to act. It uses agreed definitions, shows comparisons to plan and last year, and lets the user drill from category to SKU. Anything that does not lead to a decision is left out.

Sales, stock, receipts and returns at SKU and week level, plus prices and product attributes. Exports from your ERP, PLM or e-commerce platform are enough to start, and the connection can be automated later.

Most brand teams start with Power BI Pro licences for everyone who publishes or views shared reports. Premium Per User or a Fabric capacity becomes worth it with many viewers, large datasets or more frequent refreshes. I review your Microsoft 365 setup before recommending anything.

Yes. Row-level security lets one report serve every market while each user sees only the data they are allowed to see. Head office keeps the full view without maintaining separate files.

Usually four to eight weeks, depending on the number of data sources, KPIs and markets. Agreeing the definitions often takes as long as building the model.