Senior Associate

**Vacancy No**

VN746

**Job Type**

Permanent

**Location**

Hatfield

**Job Details**

**Senior Associate Price & Promotions**

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Location**:Hatfield (Blended working - 3 days in the office)

**Working hours per week**:40 hours

**Level**:Associate

**Application closing date**:15th November

**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**

The Price & Promotions team sits as part of the Commercial Strategy team and is tasked with developing and executing the strategic pillars of Ocado Retail’s value proposition. From conception to delivery, the team ensures initiatives resonate with new and existing customers and are successfully maintained across the business.

As a Pricing & Promotions Senior Associate, you will play a key role in developing and landing new analytics, tooling and ways of working to inform how we make pricing and promotional decisions. You’ll drive strategic projects to support our overall value roadmap, as well as ad-hoc analysis to support proactive and reactive price and promo decisions.

You’ll have great communication skills and the ability to translate technical concepts to a range of audiences, as well as the ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders. You will work closely with the broader Commercial team to deliver recommendations and embed new tools and ways of working.

**What you’ll do**
- Develop tools and reports to be used by the broader business to further the understanding of price and promotion performance, working closely with the data science and insights functions
- Drive the roll out of new tools and ways of working to the broader Commercial team, partnering with individual Buyers to review and improve price and promotional performance
- Support ad-hoc projects involving customer and commercial analysis of strategic value initiatives
- Perform analyses of pricing and promotional performance using large datasets

**Who you are**

Essential:

- Previous experience in an analytical or consulting role, preferably for 2+ years, and comfortable working through analytical problems
- Strong commercial mindset and enjoys problem-solving to uncover actionable insight
- Proven stakeholder management experience
- Excellent Excel skills
- Ability to drive projects forward independently with keen attention to detail
- Experience in presenting analytics-driven output to wide-ranging audiences in a clear and logical way

Preferred:

- Experience of using SQL (Preferably BigQuery)
- Experience in a retail, e-commerce, or FMCG business
- Experience with data visualisation software such as Tableau

At Ocado Retail we’re passionate about building careers and skills by giving people access to new and diverse opportunities. If you don’t tick all the boxes above but have a curious mindset, a passion for learning and adaptable skills to bring to the role, we still want to hear from you
**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:_** Annual bonus scheme split between personal and business objectives, 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