Roland Berger strengthens North American Consumer platform

Chicago, July 28, 2026

As consumer goods and retail companies navigate extreme headwinds: slowing consumer demand, margin pressure, supply chain volatility, and accelerating AI disruption, Roland Berger is strengthening its Consumer platform in North America, building on the firm’s established global Consumer Goods & Retail capabilities . The expansion of the team in North America reflects the growing demand for advisors who move beyond strategic recommendations and help organizations also execute transformation with greater speed, accountability, and measurable impact.

Timothy Derr has joined Roland Berger to lead and build out the North American Consumer platform. Derr brings nearly two decades of experience leading large-scale transformation programs for consumer companies. His experience spans enterprise operating model redesign, finance transformation, and complex performance improvement programs. The platform is further strengthened by Justin Ramhalo, who leads Retail, and Sean Stephens, who leads M&A, enabling clients to access integrated expertise across the full consumer value chain.

“Consumer companies are operating in an environment where disruption is constant and execution speed matters more than ever,” said Stephan Keese, Managing Partner of Roland Berger North America. “Timothy, Justin and Sean strengthen our ability to help clients move from strategic ambition to measurable enterprise impact.”

The execution challenge facing consumer companies

Consumer companies are facing mounting pressure to accelerate growth, protect margins, and adapt to rapid disruption. At the same time, many organizations are struggling with transformation fatigue.

Too many initiatives. Not enough alignment. Limited execution capacity. Increasing pressure to deliver impact faster.

“Too many transformation programs create activity without generating enough measurable impact,” said Timothy Derr. “The companies outperforming today are focusing on fewer priorities, aligning leadership teams faster, and embedding execution more deeply into the business. That’s where Roland Berger is differentiated: we stay until change is operationalized and results are delivered.”

The expanded North American Consumer platform reflects Roland Berger’s continued investment in helping consumer companies drive growth with greater focus, speed, and accountability.

The expanded North American Consumer platform supports clients build the capabilities that drive performance.

We are helping today’s highest-performing consumer companies outperform by strengthening three capabilities simultaneously:

Growth – delivering profitable growth through commercial excellence, revenue growth management, portfolio strategy, customer experience and strategic business reinvention

Operations – Turning operational complexity into performance through operating model transformation, supply chain optimization, manufacturing excellence, finance transformation, and enterprise performance improvement.

Adaptability – building organizations that move faster by embedding AI, digital capabilities, innovation, sustainability, and modern ways of working across the enterprise.

By integrating these capabilities into a single transformation platform, Roland Berger helps consumer companies make clearer choices, execute faster, and deliver measurable business impact.

Learn more about Roland Berger’s Consumer Goods & Retail services .