Procurement Excellence Analyst

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The company

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.

The work

What you will be doing

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.

• 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

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What you won’t be doing

Are you suitable?

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.

• Routine back-office procurement
• Running standard RFx cycles and bid analyses
• Chasing and reviewing supplier paperwork
• Endless manual spreadsheet crunching
• 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 get

What We Offer

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• 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.