Product Strategy Principal

6 months ago


Hatfield, United Kingdom Ocado Group Full time

**Product Strategy Principal**

**Team: Solutions Product Strategy**

**About Us**

Ocado Technology Solutions is on a mission to transform the way the world shops.

Our founding vision was to use cutting-edge technology and automation to transform the online grocery space. Today, the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) is the world's most advanced end-to-end eCommerce, fulfilment and logistics platform - enabling some of the world's most forward-thinking retailers to do grocery online profitably, sustainably, and with a world-class customer proposition.

**About the role**

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced strategist to join the Solutions Product Strategy team. You will be responsible for leading projects on the key strategic topics shaping the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP), capturing the view of partners, prospects and the market to do so.

You will work closely with our Technology Org and within the Solutions business to help shape and influence the product strategy, and will represent the team across the organisation. You will be an active member of the Product Strategy leadership team, and be responsible for directly managing a team of 3-5 Product Strategy managers and associates.

**What You’ll Do**
- **Oversee the delivery of strategic projects which add meaningful value to OSP**, based on an understanding of our partners and their priorities, market and technology trends, in-depth commercial modelling, and analysis of our technology
- **Ensure strategy projects deliver high quality results in a timely manner; **supporting your team in developing robust, clear recommendations and working with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve blockers and land with impact
- **Identify & prioritise the most impactful strategic projects to work on**, by working closely with our partner
- and prospect-facing teams, and staying at the forefront of market & industry trends
- **Partner with the Product teams **to define a product vision & long term strategy; representing the voice of our partners, prospects & the market to do so

**Initiate and lead internal projects to improve wider team impact, ways of working and cross-business collaboration**
- **Recruit, motivate, manage and lead the team**; coaching them to develop, building processes to improve their impact and creating a great team environment

**About You**
- A natural leader with a self-starter mindset, who is able to inspire and engage others around you
- Creative problem-solving approach and strong analytical skills, combined with a strong sense of ownership and bias towards action
- Strong analytical skills; experience with commercial modelling and business case development
- A natural collaborator, who thrives on building trusting relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal); ability to flex style to suit a diverse audience at all levels of an organisation
- Expert project manager; comfortable progressing multiple projects at the same time and empowering others to do so too
- 8 years experience in strategy and/or commercial roles within a retailer or a management consultancy
- A good level of expertise in logistics, fulfilment or supply chain technologies would be a bonus

**Benefits**
- 30 days “Work for anywhere in the world” policy
- Generous private medical insurance
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Income Protection
- 25 days holiday + 3 days salary sacrifice
- 15% Ocado discount

**Equal Opportunity Employer**

**Ocado is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employers are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, disability or union membership status.



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