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Permanent
Hatfield (Hybrid working – 3 days in the office)
40 hours
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Hatfield (Hybrid working – 3 days in the office)
Working hours per week: 40 hours
Level: Mid-level
Application closing date: 1st July 2025
About Us
Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivaled service, and reassuringly good value.
We’re Ocado Retail, a market-leading, joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S and the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket ocado.com. Not only is Ocado.com the only place to shop a full range of M&S food online, but it’s also the home to the widest online supermarket range in the UK and champion of small, independent brands. We’re also the brains behind Zoom by Ocado, our same-day grocery delivery service.
About The Team And The Role
The Forecasting team works closely with our Planning, Finance and Marketing departments to accurately predict customer demand and maximise network capacity utilisation. The Forecasting team is responsible for:
* Short-term forecasting and capacity utilisation
* Medium-term scenario forecasting to explore alternative strategies for meeting growth targets.
* Long-term strategic guidance – forecasting long-term customer demand to help build our long-term network, marketing and acquisition strategy
The Senior Analyst is responsible for helping to deliver and narrate time critical forecasts to our stakeholders while ensuring that the team continues to develop its forecasting capabilities.
What You’ll Do
* Take responsibility for delivering particular workstreams within the team.
* Develop a good working partnership with colleagues across Revenue Management, Finance, Operations and Ocado Logistics.
* Help prioritisation of work within the team through good Project Management.
* Look for and develop tools to automate decision making, reports to enable self-serve and support projects that drive business improvement.
* Assist development of our forecasting accuracy KPIs, identify the source of inaccuracies and implement improvements to the forecasting processes to remove bias and reduce error.
* Work with the Data Science team to evolve our forecasting toolkit
* Manage junior members of the team.
* Contribute to the development of best practices and support sharing them among the wider Insight
Who You Are
Essential:
* Strong experience as an analyst
* Experience in presenting analytics-driven output to wide-ranging audiences
* Proven experience in data mining using SQL
* The ability to communicate and influence at all levels
* Ability to drive projects forward and deliver to plan
* Excellent Google Suite / Excel skills
* Numerate or Technical Degree (2:1 and above) + Mathematics A Level (or equivalent) Grade A
* Ability to prioritise and balance immediate work against longer-term priorities
Preferred:
* Experience in a retail, e-commerce or FMCG consumer-facing business
* Experience with data visualisation software such as Tableau
* Familiarity with Google’s wider data ecosystem (e.g. Google Cloud Storage, AutoML)
* Knowledge of forecasting methods.
* Experience of R or Python
* Willingness to learn and innovate and take advantage of new technologies.
What’s In It For You
By joining Ocado Retail you’ll have the chance to experience life at the world’s largest online retailer, work with an amazing bunch of people who challenge what’s possible each day, and grow your skills and career in online retail.
If that’s not enough to tempt you, you’ll also get access to loads of great benefits to sweeten the deal. Here’s a taste of what we offer:
Health & Wellbeing: Private medical insurance with the option to add your family, Digital GP appointments, market-leading family policies, mental health support, discounted gym memberships, dental insurance, and more.
Spend & Save: Annual bonus scheme split between personal and business objectives, recognition with reward platform, up to 7% matched pension contributions, 15% Ocado discount, 20% M&S discount, free breakfast every day in the office, electric vehicle leasing scheme and free shuttle bus from Hatfield station to the office.
Never miss the moments that matter: Blended/Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays, options to buy an extra holiday, 2 weeks work from anywhere, and lifestyle break opportunities.
Our Hiring Process
Lucky for us, we get loads of great applications and we really appreciate that so many people put the time and effort in to apply. To recognise that, we treat all applications respectfully and fairly. So, if yours stands out, you’ll follow our standard hiring process – one of our Talent Partners will talk you through this in an initial call.
Everyone’s welcome
We’re an equal opportunities employer. That means that we make sure all potential colleagues are treated fairly and equally. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Business Development and Sales
* Industries
Retail
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