About Us
We’re doing some great things in Procurement at Ocado and are delighted to be recruiting for a new Analyst role within our Procurement Excellence team.
This is no normal Procurement Analyst role.
Procurement Excellence is the strategic engine of Ocado’s Procurement function. We’ve established a tech and AI-enabled function, underpinned by our market leading Omnea procurement platform (check it out here) and enterprise wide Claude rollout.
The Procurement Excellence function has the ownership of pushing the function forward across five core pillars (1) Systems & AI, (2) Data & Analytics, (3) Supplier Risk, (4) Process Excellence and (5) Policy & Governance.
What you will be doing:
- Product Management of Omnea: Building out the platform, rapidly deploying new Agentic features, building new value-driving workflows, and arming Ocado with brilliant insight from our platform data
- Redesigning core procurement processes that take advantage of Claude e.g building market research and contract negotiation playbooks
- Building automated KPI dashboards and then focusing on the “so what?”, ensuring leadership are armed with insight not just data
- Maturing our approach to Supplier Risk: focusing on what we really need to know, how to make that low touch and effort, and ensuring our central teams (Legal, Data Protection etc) work together as a unit
You don't need years of experience doing all of this - very few procurement teams are working at this level yet. What matters most to us is your mindset and core skills to help us build amazing things.
What you won’t be doing:
- Routine back-office procurement
- Running standard RFx cycles and bid analyses
- Chasing and reviewing supplier paperwork
- Endless manual spreadsheet crunching
Are you suitable?
- Mindset: curiosity, an inquisitive nature, improvement focused. If you’re constantly thinking (and hopefully saying) “how can we do this better?” “how can we make this easier?” “why do we do it that way?” then you’ll fit right in
- Core Skills: comfortable with AI (think well beyond the prompt box!), great with numbers and data, able to present complexity in simple terms, great with people
We’re shooting for world class and that’s only possible with a world class team. If you like the sound of the above then we’d love to hear from you.
What We Offer
- Time to recharge: 25 days annual leave (rising to 27 after 5 years), option to buy extra leave, plus 30 days a year to work from anywhere in the world.
- Health & wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance from month one, specialist EAP apps, Income Protection, and Life Assurance.
- Family-first policies: 22 weeks paid maternity/primary carer leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave.
- Financial support: Employer pension matching up to 7%, share schemes (Sharesave & BAYE), and interest-free season ticket loans.
- Commuter perks: Cycle to Work Scheme and free shuttle buses to/from Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City stations.
- Exclusive discounts: 15% off at Ocado.com with free delivery starting in your first month.
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Skills Required
- Administer and troubleshoot core procurement applications (procurement platform, tail spend, virtual card)
- Build deep technical knowledge of procurement systems and act as team subject-matter-expert
- Experience or strong interest in Agentic AI and automation to help build automated procurement workflows
- Design and deliver user training to drive system adoption
- Maintain procurement reporting systems and produce regular and ad-hoc financial and operational reports
- Support Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) activities and maintain supplier compliance documentation
- Track KPIs across sourcing, negotiation, contract and supplier management processes
- Strong communication skills to translate system outputs for stakeholders
Ocado Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ocado Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Ocado Group.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs include free share awards after six months of service, with additional access to broad-based plans such as SIP, Sharesave, and ESPP in applicable regions.
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Flexible Benefits — Work arrangements often allow hybrid schedules and a limited work‑from‑anywhere allowance, alongside flexible leave options and discount schemes depending on role and location.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies cover birth, adoption, fostering and surrogacy, with returner coaching and additional flexible arrangements after leave where applicable.
Ocado Group Insights
What We Do
When our journey started, we were all about changing the way people shop for groceries. Nearly 20 years later, we’re a FTSE 100, client-focused business that provides services, technology, and automation to grocery e-commerce businesses around the world.
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