About the Position

Procurement Excellence Analyst

Hatfield, United Kingdom

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 and enterprise-wide Claude rollout.

The Procurement Excellence function has the ownership of pushing the function forward across five core pillars:

Systems & AI
Data & Analytics
Supplier Risk
Process Excellence
Policy & Governance

Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

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.

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

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.

About the Company

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.

Procurement Excellence Analyst

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