"We are on a mission to transform the future of grocery retail through sustained technology innovation." Ocado Technology is putting the world's retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We develop the innovative software and hardware systems that power Ocado.com, the world's largest online-only grocery retailer as well as the global'Ocado Smart Platform'. With everything from websites to fully autonomous warehouses that we design in-house, our employees need to be specialists in a wide range of technologies to help drive our business. The Supply Chain Data Science team develops the models that power Ocado Smart Platform's Supply Chain.

Over the last year, we have witnessed a major transformation for Ocado Technology and the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP). From weathering the pains of customers placing their first orders, to offering an online retail solution that has helped rocket our business to the FTSE 100. Not only are we'live' and successful for a major retailer but we are well underway in realising our vision in becoming the leading retail online platform provider, with four of the world's leading retailers already on board. We are looking to step-change our analytics capability across Ocado Technology to drive better-informed decision-making as we consider how to evolve and improve the Ocado Smart Platform for our clients and their customers. As a Product Analyst within Fulfillment department, you will work closely with the Product teams to enable them to track KPIs and use data to make these better decisions.

While many know UK company Ocado as an online grocery retailer, it's really one of the most innovative tech companies in the world. Ocado was founded in 2000 as an entirely online experience and therefore never had a brick-and-mortar store to serve its customers, who number 580,000 each day. Its technology expertise came about out of necessity as it began to build the software and hardware it needed to be efficient, productive, and competitive. Today, Ocado uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in many ways throughout its business. Since 2000, Ocado tried to piece together the technology they needed to succeed by purchasing products off the shelf.

It wasn't so long ago that the idea of biped or quadruped robots delivering pizzas seemed like a real possibility. Such speculation was fuelled by Google's acquisition of Boston Dynamics--a company more associated with potential military applications, which earned notoriety for its scarily nimble Big Dog robots. Google, and then its parent company Alphabet, had to work out how to bring this technology to civvy street--a problem that certainly gnawed at the development team. The vision was perhaps too grandiose even for Alphabet and, earlier this year, it was reported that Boston Dynamics had been off the leash so it could sniff around for potential buyers. With that short-lived episode over, the roadmap for robotic deliveries is now back under debate, at least if you were expecting arms and legs. These are all at the prototype stage but they're definitely coming; in fact, there's a wide range of innovative technology under investigation by retailers to achieve a competitive edge, from drones to chatbots to redesigned Mars rovers and slasher robots.