Analytics Manager, Central Data Products

Overview

In this role you drive the BI strategy and the evolution from traditional analytics to AI-assisted data access across Ocado Group. You lead a dedicated team, align semantic architecture with business outcomes, and own partner-facing data products like OSP Insights. You will establish platform standards, evaluate AI and data quality, and communicate value to stakeholders. This is a hands-on leadership role shaping data capabilities for global partners and internal teams in a fast-moving, technology-driven business.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (27 after 5 years)
• 30 days remote work
• private medical insurance
• income protection and life assurance
• pension with employer matching 7%
• Sharesave & BAYE share schemes

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the group-wide BI strategy and oversee platform consolidation and TCO
• Lead the Looker and Celonis Centres of Excellence under a unified operating model
• Roll out agentic analytics using Claude and MCP for self-serve data access
• Collaborate on migrating the unified semantic layer onto dbt MetricFlow
• Create evaluation frameworks, telemetry, and logging to assess AI accuracy and system performance
• Own product vision, roadmap, and delivery for the partner-facing OSP Insights platform
• Articulate commercial and operational value of data products to non-technical stakeholders
• Maintain an outcome-driven roadmap with clear prioritization standards for requests
• Partner with Partner Success to streamline onboarding and support workflows
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team with AI literacy and delegated capability

Key requirements

• Proven BI strategy leadership with platform evaluation and consolidation
• End-to-end product management experience, especially with partner- or customer-facing data products
• Practical understanding of agentic data access concepts and MCP architectures
• Strong SQL, modern data warehousing (BigQuery, dbt) and semantic layer BI tools (Looker)
• Ability to translate analytics into commercial value stories for leadership
• Evaluation-first mindset with telemetry, monitoring, and governance
• Experience managing and developing team members and delegating capability ownership

• leadership
• stakeholder engagement
• strategic thinking
• SQL
• BigQuery
• dbt

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