Pricing and Promotions Analyst

We’re Ocado Retail. We’re the people powering Ocado.com, the UK’s fastest-growing grocer, and Ocado Zoom, our almost-as-fast-growing, same-day grocery service. As the world’s biggest and best online-only grocer, we work tirelessly to bring more of what matters to our customers: unbeatable range, fair value and effortless convenience.

We’re an exceptional and mighty bunch of colleagues who are inspired by our three awesome values: Always be curious, Bring our best selves, and Challenge what's possible. We have ambitious plans and vision to never-stop making our customers' lives better, by delivering the supermarket of tomorrow, today.
About the Role

The Pricing and Promotions team sit as part of commercial strategy and are tasked with developing 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 Analyst, you will play a key role in driving the analytics that shapes the future of Ocado Retail's value strategy for customers. You will be responsible for analysing and reporting on Pricing and promotional decisions, using commercial and market data to produce actionable insight and delivering recommendations to the commercial team.

Flexing your SQL and Excel skills you will develop tools and reports with a focus on automation to raise the speed and quality of decision-making. You’ll complete both ad-hoc projects and larger ongoing analysis of the commercial landscape to ensure we deliver value to our customers. You’ll have great communications 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.

Accountabilities

• Undertake analysis using commercial and market data to develop an understanding of Pricing and promotional competitiveness and make recommendations
• Support adhoc projects involving customer and commercial analysis of strategic value initiatives
• Create and launch tools & reports that further the understanding of Pricing and Promotions
• Work collaboratively with commercial teams around the business and support in sessions on Pricing and Promotions best practice

Skills & Experiences

• Previous experience in an analytical role, preferably for 1+ years and comfortable working through analytical problems.
• Ability to drive projects forward with keen attention to detail
• Experience in presenting analytics-driven output to wide-ranging audiences in a clear and logical way
• Proven experience of using SQL (Preferably BigQuery)
• Excellent Excel skills
• Strong commercial mindset and enjoys problem-solving to uncover actionable insight

Preferred:

• Experience in a retail, e-commerce or FMCG business

• Experience with data visualisation software such as Tableau

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you are excited about the role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this or other roles

What We Offer You
At Ocado, we value our employees and want to ensure you are rewarded for your contribution through competitive salaries and fantastic benefits.

• Hybrid working
• Free onsite parking and free shuttle service from Hatfield station
• Regular socials
• 26 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
• 15% Ocado discount and 20% Marks and Spencer discount
• Private Medical insurance
• Income Protection & Life Assurance
• Enhanced Pension Scheme (with 7% matching)
• Exciting company benefits through Reward Gateway

A little bit more about us
Our business is a joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S. It’s a successful combination of award-winning customer service and unrivalled customer data; world-leading technology and logistics from Ocado Group, and unrivalled product development from M&S.
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