About Us

Ocado Technology is building the next-generation grocery ecommerce suite that´s changing the way the world shops.

Ocado Group is a technology-led, global, software and robotics platform business, with a strong retail heritage. Ocado has been at the forefront of innovation in the online grocery industry since it was founded in 2000. Its retail business, Ocado.com, is one of the world’s largest online-only supermarkets with over £2,2bn annual revenue and over 795,000 active customers.

Our teams are putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We provide services to partner clients globally via our innovative advanced robotics technology, known as the Ocado Smart Platform ("OSP"), this drives our highly automated, multi-million pound Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs). In our CFCs - together with the proprietary software applications - we operate a world-class online grocery business that automates the single pick of products, ready for your online delivery.

About the role 

To set our OSP software product up for success through enabling a world class 3rd party partnership ecosystem.

What you will do

The roles and responsibilities of this role include:

Standardise, embed & communicate best practices across the end to end journey of software third party partnerships; create central source of truth & centre of excellence Define and embed Build vs Buy decision framework and support Product streams with strategic approach Support streams with best practice guidance around market scanning & due diligence Define commercial model options for partnerships and support product teams with strategic commercial choices; work with Commercialisation team to define impact on OSP cost and fees & to Partners Define and track KPIs across software partners, and escalate issues & lessons learned; develop tooling to enable third party tracking & management Work closely with Procurement, Legal, Solutions & other relevant teams to build commercial and legal playbook for third party partnerships; support Procurement with commercial negotiations; define & help apply appropriate commercial models Support with upskilling of the Product org around all stages of 3rd party relationships, in collaboration with our Product Operations team; work with hardware third party teams to ensure consistency  Define target roles & responsibilities across org at each phase of the partnership journey; define ongoing organisational structure to support 3rd party partnerships

 

You may be asked to perform tasks as required by management deemed as a reasonable request. This job description is a summary of the typical functions of the role, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of possible role responsibilities, tasks and duties and is subject to review. The responsibilities, tasks and duties of the job holder might differ from those outlined in the job description and other duties, as assigned, might form part of the job.

We'd love to hear from you if you have Experience across the partnerships lifecycle  Ability to deliver change in a matrixed organisation Knowledge of partnership commercial models & ability to apply best practice Documentation & process design  Excellent relationship management skills

 

Please let us know in your application if you need any special adaptations for the selection process. At Ocado Group we adapt our selection processes to our candidates.

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