Project Manager - Product Development Welwyn Garden City, England
Job description
About Us
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
Working alongside our Engineering and Product teams, this role will be pivotal in guiding and supporting the Technology mission in successfully delivering critical and essential projects. You’ll be working with others around the Ocado Group business to find great solutions which support the continued growth of our international clients. In this role, you will be a go-to person for the projects you lead, with great expertise, problem solving and knowledge sharing. Within ASRS (Product Development) you could be working on products within Bot, Grid and EcoSystem, all of which present different and exciting challenges but go hand in hand to develop an optimised OSP system.
About you
We’d love to hear from you if you have experience…
Managing high risk, high complexity product development projects and life cycles in a fast paced environment - bringing new products to market - from Problem Definition through to Benefits Realisation
Managing project budgets as well as an appreciation of other related metrics such as cost of ownership of products
In vendor selection and long term engagement for the delivery of services and products
Giving effective presentations to senior stakeholders with different agendas and providing compelling evidence to guide stakeholders to the correct decision or consensus
Leading projects, using various project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc) within a structured stage-gated development process
Working with and managing a broad spectrum of internal and external stakeholders
It would be great but not essential if you have…
Evidenced experience or improving project management capability and outcomes in a team or business
Good technical ability and experience relating to automation hardware
What do I get in return
Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. Hybrid working and flexible working patterns; Private healthcare Car salary sacrifice and Cycle to Work schemes; A range of amazing benefits, including Free Shares and Life Assurance; 15% off your Ocado.com shopping; Company shop offering discounts of up to 70% on groceries from leading brands and major retailers; Exclusive travel, retail and leisure discounts nationwide; Incredible Head Office, complete with onsite cafe and restaurant just 20 minutes by train from Kings Cross; A free shuttle bus from and to Hatfield Station; 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete); Enhanced Pension scheme, matching employee contributions up to 7% of salary; Employee Assistance Programme
We’re in it together, we are proud of what we do, we can be even better
We welcome applicants from across the world. If your employment is subject to sponsorship under the UK points-based immigration system, Ocado Group will only pay for the cost of a Certificate of Sponsorship for you, including the Immigration Skills Charge (ISC) if applicable. You will be responsible for the cost of your own visa application and the Immigration Healthcare Surcharge (IHS)
