Interim Pricing and Promotions Lead

Team**:Pricing & Promotions**

Ref.**:VN1037**

Type**:Fixed Term**

Location**:Hatfield**

**Interim Pricing and Promotions Lead (12 months FTC)**

**Contract type**:_Fixed Term Contract (12 months)_
**Location**:_Hatfield (hybrid working - 3 days in the office)_
**Working hours per week**:_40 hours_
**Level**:_Lead_
**Application closing date**:28th August 2025

**About us**
Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivaled service, and reassuringly good value.

**About the team and the role**

This is a critical role within the commercial team, and a clear path to a commercial leadership role. The role is responsible for ensuring that Ocado Retail achieves the correct value proposition in order to meet our growth ambitions and commercial targets. This combines the delivery of both long-term strategic initiatives and tactical activity.

**What you’ll do**

**Price and promotions management**:

- Developing processes and frameworks to ensure governance of price and promotional decision making throughout the commercial function, maintaining a customer-first approach alongside maximising commercial outcomes.
- Keeping abreast of market conditions and competitor activity that may impact the strength of Ocado Retail’s proposition - being an expert and ambassador of data-led grocery pricing and promotions optimisation.
- Monitoring and analysing performance of pricing strategies, fostering an environment of learning, continuous listening and actioning insight.

**Implementation of our value strategy**:

- Structuring, developing and driving the cross-functional implementation of critical commercial pricing and promotions projects.
- Guiding value investments to deliver optimal outcomes for customers via pricing and promotional activity.
- Being a leading contributor to the future roadmap and value strategy for Ocado Retail, analysing and making recommendations to Senior Leadership and Board of Directors.

**Leadership**:

- Leadership and mentorship of a multidisciplinary team of 5, setting team objectives to deliver against KPIs and responsibility for optimisation and prioritisation.
- Building and maintaining close working relationships with stakeholders and peers across Ocado Retail and proactively identifying and solving intra-departmental issues.

**Who you are**
- Experience in commercial leadership, buying, management consulting or retail strategy roles. Experience of pricing and promotions is an advantage.
- Proven experience leading projects, taking ownership and delivering strong customer and commercial outcomes.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a track record of structuring and analysing complex problems.
- A champion of data-led approaches, comfortable with analytics and able to drive data projects and modelling.
- Ability to spot commercial opportunities whilst driving customer outcomes.
- Comfortable leading teams through change and operating in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders across several functions and seniority levels with the ability to influence at all levels and build strong trusted relationships.

**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:_** 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**

**Everyone’s welcome