

Ocado Retail
Senior Reporting Analyst (6 Month FTC)
⭐ - Featured Role | Apply direct with Data Freelance Hub
This role is for a Senior Reporting Analyst on a 6-month fixed-term contract, based in Hatfield with hybrid work (3 days in-office). Key skills include SQL, data storytelling, and experience in retail or e-commerce.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
March 18, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Inside IR35
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Hatfield, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#AI (Artificial Intelligence) #Storage #JavaScript #Google Cloud Storage #Cloud #GIT #Python #Tableau #Stories #Airflow #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Project Management #BI (Business Intelligence)
Role description
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (6 Months)
Location: Hatfield (Hybrid working – 3 days in the office)
Working hours per week: 40 hours
Level: Senior
Application Closing Date: Tuesday 31st March 2026
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.
About The Team And The Role
The Reporting Analyst team is responsible for supporting teams across Ocado Retail to make all value add decisions data driven. We work closely with teams across the entire business, developing an understanding of their own priorities and responsibilities to ensure any reports we provide are useful for them.
Additionally, the Reporting team works with the Insights team to provide datamarts and tools to make it easier for them to produce analysis.
Reporting Analysts provide and maintain reports for the wider team, including Buying, Marketing, Website Merchandising, and others. Analytical and communication skills are required for the scoping phase, to ensure the report is asking and answering the right questions. Design and technical skills are required to build the report itself.
A senior reporting analyst is additionally expected to help mentor and manage more junior members of the team, to drive larger programmes and projects from start to finish, and to have the strategic focus to identify and implement opportunities to improve ways of working
What You’ll Do
• Development of self-service tools to support wider team where opportunities are identified, in a variety of formats
• Working with stakeholders to develop key business reports to increase the level of data-based decision making within the company.
• Developing tools and datamarts for the Insight Team to make their jobs easier
• Working with the Data team to feed back on new data requirements
• Mentoring and managing junior team members
Who You Are
• Essential:
• Extensive experience in a similar role delivering complex reporting (business intelligence) solutions to cross functional business teams in fast paced environment
• Strong SQL skills
• Experience in telling stories with data
• Previous analytical experience
• Ability to drive projects forward and deliver to plan
• The ability to communicate and influence at all levels
• Excellent Spreadsheet skills
• Preferred:
• Experience in a retail, e-commerce or FMCG consumer-facing business
• Familiarity with Google’s wider data ecosystem (e.g. Google Cloud Storage, AutoML)
• Tableau (or similar BI tool) skills
• Airflow
• Python
• Javascript
• Git
• Previous management experience
• Numerate or Technical Degree (2:1 and above)
Business Competencies
• Problem Solving
• Communication Skills
• Influencing
• Project Management/Planning
• Relationship Management
• Commercial Awareness
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 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: Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays, options to buy extra holiday, 2 weeks work from anywhere, and lifestyle break opportunities.
Our Hiring Process
Lucky for us, we receive a high volume of applications and genuinely appreciate the time and effort invested by every candidate. To ensure a fair and thorough process, every application is reviewed by a member of our team. If your skills and experience are a strong match, a Talent Partner will contact you to discuss the role and guide you through the next steps of our hiring process.
Your Application and AI
In the spirit of innovation, we welcome you to use AI tools in your application, just as we use them in our own business at Ocado Retail. However, as you leverage this technology, please don't lose sight of the most important element: your unique self. Your experiences, passions, and personality are what truly set you apart. Ensure that your application still authentically conveys who you are and why you're a great fit for us.
Everyone’s welcome
We’re an equal opportunities employer, which means that we make sure all potential colleagues are treated fairly and equally. We want to ensure everyone has a fair chance to apply; if you need this job description in an alternative format (e.g., larger print, different document type, etc.), please reach out to us at careers@ocadoretail.com and we'll be happy to assist you, and if you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form.
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (6 Months)
Location: Hatfield (Hybrid working – 3 days in the office)
Working hours per week: 40 hours
Level: Senior
Application Closing Date: Tuesday 31st March 2026
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.
About The Team And The Role
The Reporting Analyst team is responsible for supporting teams across Ocado Retail to make all value add decisions data driven. We work closely with teams across the entire business, developing an understanding of their own priorities and responsibilities to ensure any reports we provide are useful for them.
Additionally, the Reporting team works with the Insights team to provide datamarts and tools to make it easier for them to produce analysis.
Reporting Analysts provide and maintain reports for the wider team, including Buying, Marketing, Website Merchandising, and others. Analytical and communication skills are required for the scoping phase, to ensure the report is asking and answering the right questions. Design and technical skills are required to build the report itself.
A senior reporting analyst is additionally expected to help mentor and manage more junior members of the team, to drive larger programmes and projects from start to finish, and to have the strategic focus to identify and implement opportunities to improve ways of working
What You’ll Do
• Development of self-service tools to support wider team where opportunities are identified, in a variety of formats
• Working with stakeholders to develop key business reports to increase the level of data-based decision making within the company.
• Developing tools and datamarts for the Insight Team to make their jobs easier
• Working with the Data team to feed back on new data requirements
• Mentoring and managing junior team members
Who You Are
• Essential:
• Extensive experience in a similar role delivering complex reporting (business intelligence) solutions to cross functional business teams in fast paced environment
• Strong SQL skills
• Experience in telling stories with data
• Previous analytical experience
• Ability to drive projects forward and deliver to plan
• The ability to communicate and influence at all levels
• Excellent Spreadsheet skills
• Preferred:
• Experience in a retail, e-commerce or FMCG consumer-facing business
• Familiarity with Google’s wider data ecosystem (e.g. Google Cloud Storage, AutoML)
• Tableau (or similar BI tool) skills
• Airflow
• Python
• Javascript
• Git
• Previous management experience
• Numerate or Technical Degree (2:1 and above)
Business Competencies
• Problem Solving
• Communication Skills
• Influencing
• Project Management/Planning
• Relationship Management
• Commercial Awareness
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 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: Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays, options to buy extra holiday, 2 weeks work from anywhere, and lifestyle break opportunities.
Our Hiring Process
Lucky for us, we receive a high volume of applications and genuinely appreciate the time and effort invested by every candidate. To ensure a fair and thorough process, every application is reviewed by a member of our team. If your skills and experience are a strong match, a Talent Partner will contact you to discuss the role and guide you through the next steps of our hiring process.
Your Application and AI
In the spirit of innovation, we welcome you to use AI tools in your application, just as we use them in our own business at Ocado Retail. However, as you leverage this technology, please don't lose sight of the most important element: your unique self. Your experiences, passions, and personality are what truly set you apart. Ensure that your application still authentically conveys who you are and why you're a great fit for us.
Everyone’s welcome
We’re an equal opportunities employer, which means that we make sure all potential colleagues are treated fairly and equally. We want to ensure everyone has a fair chance to apply; if you need this job description in an alternative format (e.g., larger print, different document type, etc.), please reach out to us at careers@ocadoretail.com and we'll be happy to assist you, and if you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form.





