Insights Graduate Scheme 2025

Insights Graduate Scheme 2025

Contract type: Permanent

Scheme Start Date: September 2025

Location: Hatfield (Blended working - 2-3 days in the office)

Working hours per week: 40 hours

Level: Entry Level - Graduate

Application Opening Date: Monday 28th October

Application Closing Date: Sunday 17th November

To read more about Ocado Retail and our Graduate schemes, visit our Careers Page!

About Us

Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivalled service, and reassuringly good value. 

We’re Ocado Retail, a market-leading, joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S and the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket ocado.com. Not only is Ocado.com the only place to shop a full range of M&S food online, it’s also the home to the widest online supermarket range in the UK and champion of small, independent brands. We’re also the brains behind Zoom by Ocado, our same-day grocery delivery service. 

Insights at Ocado Retail

The Insight team is at the heart of the Ocado retail – from advising the buying team on promotions to run and products to range, to understanding how our customers buy their weekly shopping, through to building models for new loyalty schemes and personalised marketing campaigns – data and insight are critical to everything we do. Our analysts become experts in the business function they support and develop the skills to produce great insight.

You will have the support and training needed to reach analyst level at the end of your 24-month graduate scheme within the Data & Insights Team.

What you’ll do

• The insight stream encompasses 4 x 6-month placements in analyst teams across the business; including Marketing, Category, Operations, Forecasting, Customer Research, Web Merchandising, and Trading (Range, Pricing, and Promotions)
• Within each rotation, you’ll be an integral part of the team, delivering on key projects for the team and wider business  
• After each rotation, we will discuss your preferences for your next placement and try to match your needs, with those of the business
• During your final rotation, you will be encouraged to apply for permanent roles

Who you are

• Someone who brings your passion, enthusiasm, and has a willingness to learn
• A logical thinker, with a knack for problem solving
• Someone who embraces challenge and thrives when seeing work through to completion - delivering results
• Has a mindset that challenges the status quo, driving yourself and the teams around you to push the boundaries of what is possible and live the Ocado values:
  • Always be curious
  • Bring our best selves
  • Challenge what's possible

Expectations During and After the Scheme

• To scope and complete analytical projects to better understand how we can drive overall business performance through your findings and recommendations
• Visualizing data and presenting insight in a concise manner with presentations tailored to the technical level of the audience - with actionable insights and recommendations
• Applying statistical techniques such as regression modeling to quantify the impact of variables affecting historical performance, and build predictive models for future performance, as well as applying statistical tests to validate the robustness of recommendations

What You Need To Apply

• CV & Cover Letter  - Why Ocado Retail? Why this scheme? What do you hope to achieve/gain?
• A 2:1 degree or higher having studied an undergraduate degree in Mathematics, STEM, Data Science and Analytics or an undergraduate degree that includes analytical modules, such as Business Management
• Commercial awareness and problem-solving ability
• Excellent Excel skills and experience with programming languages (such as SQL, R, Python, VBA, JavaScript) would be advantageous
• Graduate from an accredited UK University
• The legal right to work in the United Kingdom upon scheme commencement and duration of the scheme

When will you hear from us?

We love that we get loads of amazing applications for our graduate schemes. To recognise that, we aim to keep you informed throughout the process.

To start with, we’ll take a look through each application and whether successful or not, we’ll let you know. Applications will close on Sunday 17th November 2024. Our aim to be in touch with anyone who’s applied within 2 weeks of that date.

After that, we’ll keep you informed between each stage. Given how many great applications we get, it can take some time, so please bear with us in between updates.

We treat all applications respectfully and fairly so unfortunately, if you miss the closing date we won't be able to make exceptions to extend stages. This wouldn't be fair to those candidates who have completed them!

How will we contact you?

Email, so make sure you’ve added careers@ocadoretail.com to your safe senders.

Our Learning & Development Promise:

There are great opportunities to grow careers within our high-performing and innovative business. These range from deepening your experience and expertise to potentially taking on management responsibility or even pivoting your career to do something completely different. 

Our career management principles exist to help the realisation of career ambitions, whatever they might be.

Driven by you

You are in the driving seat of your career. We all have a responsibility to do the things that can help move our careers forward. That could mean completing some learning, using our career stories to understand how your colleagues have got to where they are today, or applying for a new role.

Supported by your manager

You should feel that you can have open and productive conversations with your manager about your career and development. They are there to coach you, act as a mentor, signpost opportunities and be an advocate for you within the business.

Backed by ORL

We are committed to ensuring that the right tools are there for you. Our learning system ‘Walnut’ is your one-stop shop for all your learning needs. 

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. 

Everyone’s welcome

We’re an equal opportunities employer. That means that we make sure all potential colleagues are treated fairly and equally. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form