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Principal Data Analyst - Supply Chain

Ocado
Hatfield
1 week ago
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The Staff/Principal Data Analyst brings deep domain expertise in Supply Chain, combined with advanced analytics and modelling skills, to help shape and influence the development of the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP). This role is both strategic and hands‑on: working across a range of stakeholders and often directly with Partners to understand their operations through data, conversations, and collaboration with Partner Success teams.


Responsibilities

  • Use Supply‑Chain domain knowledge and advanced analytics to influence product strategy and roadmap, ensuring data‑driven decision support is embedded within key initiatives.
  • Design, develop and implement modelling and optimisation techniques to address complex supply‑chain challenges (e.g., reducing costs, improving automated planning, reducing substitution, optimising range, minimising waste).
  • Explore opportunities for new models and tools, build prototypes and estimate business benefits; conduct testing and measure impact on KPIs to refine models for deployment.
  • Work with Product Managers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and other stakeholders to integrate models and tools into OSP, ensuring user‑friendly, scalable solutions for retail partners; act as the representative of the broader Data Org within the Supply‑Chain Analytics & Insight Product Area.
  • Mentor and guide junior analysts, sharing insights from both domain and analytical perspectives to uplift the team’s capabilities.
  • Investigate and experiment with generative AI and other emerging technologies to enhance data‑driven decision‑making within the Supply‑Chain and Analytics domain.
  • Regularly assess the impact of deployed solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and optimising for long‑term value.

Required Qualifications

  • Proven experience and subject‑matter expertise in the Supply‑Chain/Retail/Grocery space.
  • Advanced analytics and modelling experience.
  • Proven track record of informing business strategies and driving business change from actionable insight and data models or simulations.
  • Hands‑on experience using SQL / BigQuery and Excel / Google Sheets.
  • Ability to translate an analysis or model into financial P&L impact to derive a business case.
  • Experience with BI tools such as Looker.
  • Able to plan complex work involving different disciplines (data engineering, data science, software engineering) and domains (fulfilment, e‑commerce, logistics).
  • Confident in communicating and influencing technical and non‑technical senior management and key stakeholders; able to adapt data stories and style to the audience.
  • Experience in mentoring and coaching more junior data analysts.

Desirable / Additional Skills

  • Curious to explore LLM use‑cases to support decision‑making within Supply‑Chain / Analytics & Insight.
  • Experience with merchandising, fulfilment operations (customer fulfilment centres or store‑based), e‑commerce or last‑mile home delivery operations.
  • Experience with machine learning.
  • Experience using Looker (building Explores and dashboards).
  • Experience using Python (or other data‑oriented programming languages).

Benefits

  • Hybrid working (2 days in the office).
  • 30 days work from anywhere globally.
  • Remote working for the month of August.
  • Wellbeing support through apps such as Unmind and an Employee Assistance Programme.
  • 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase).
  • Pension scheme with employer contribution matching up to 7%.
  • Private medical insurance.
  • 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (when relevant).
  • Train ticket loan (interest‑free).
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Opportunity to participate in Share‑Save and Buy‑as‑You‑Earn share schemes.
  • 15% discount on Ocado.com and free delivery for all employees.
  • Income protection (up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and life assurance (3 x annual salary).
  • Free shuttle‑bus to and from Hatfield train station.

Ocado Technology is putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We develop the innovative software and systems that power Ocado.com, the world’s largest online‑only grocery retailer as well as the global “Ocado Smart Platform”. With everything from websites to fully autonomous warehouses that we design in‑house, our employees need to be specialists in a wide range of technologies to help drive our business. We champion a value‑led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment that our people love. Core values of Trust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, Collaboration and Learn Fast help drive our innovative culture.


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