Partner Success Manager

Ocado Technology Group; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

22 weeks paid maternity leave

Pension with employer matching

Exclusive discounts at Ocado.com

Job summary

Ocado Technology Group seeks a Partner Success Manager to oversee relationships with OSP partners, ensuring maximum usage of the Ocado Smart Platform. This role involves close collaboration with partners to drive performance, manage operational objectives, and facilitate seamless implementation of new features.

Candidates should possess strong communication skills, a background in retail or logistics, and a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Ocado offers comprehensive benefits, emphasizing well-being and work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Experience in a retail or logistics operation.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement processes.
• Business management experience and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact for OSP partners.
• Develop deep understanding of partner performance and risks.
• Support partners to achieve robust performance and objectives.

Skills

Good written and verbal English

Stakeholder and relationship building

Self-motivated with deadline delivery

Ability to think strategically

Education

Bachelor degree or equivalent

Job description

We are Ocado Commercial, and we are revolutionizing online grocery. We partner with the world's leading retailers, providing our innovative Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) – a powerful blend of automation and software – to elevate their e-commerce capabilities. Join us and be part of a team that's shaping the future of retail, working with global giants from Kroger to AEON.

About the Role

The Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) is a modular, scalable software and hardware solution supporting highly automated customer fulfilment warehouses (CFCs) integrated with a fully fledged grocery e-commerce platform. The vision is to provide large bricks and mortar retailers across the globe with an online service using our disruptive technology.

Partner Success Managers are the primary point of contact for our OSP Partners to ensure they are using OSP to maximum potential. They work with Partners to identify areas of opportunity to drive maximum performance and business value for the Partners and for Ocado.

Partner Success Managers work closely with Partners from pre go-live through the lifetime of the contract. They form part of the Partner Account Team and collaborate closely with other Partner Success teams and teams across the Ocado Group to ensure Partners receive expert knowledge and support in the effective use of OSP and the seamless deployment of new features and products.

• The Partner Success Manager is the primary point of contact for their assigned Partner(s) for the effective, stable and value-driven use of the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP), covering fulfilment, supply chain, and last mile operations.
• A core member of the Partner Account Team, working closely with Partner operational teams and cross‑functional Ocado teams to ensure Partner priorities are clearly represented and delivered in a joined‑up way.
• Uses operational data, performance metrics and analytics to develop and maintain a deep understanding of Partner performance, risks and dependencies, and to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, resilience and service outcomes.
• Accountable for understanding the Partner’s operating model, contractual scope and operational objectives, and for supporting Partners to achieve strong, sustainable performance within the agreed framework.
• Acts as the primary operational and platform liaison between the Partner and Ocado, ensuring Partner context, requirements, constraints and business case are clearly understood and appropriately prioritised for implementation.
• Owns the Partner relationship for operational OSP roadmap engagement, acting as the named point of contact for operational roadmap topics, feature delivery queries and platform evolution in the context of operations.
• Represents Partner operational requirements and priorities into Ocado’s roadmap and change governance processes, ensuring clear problem definition, Partner impact and business case and operational context are understood.
• Owns Partner readiness for change, including the preparation and delivery of operational go‑lives and deployments, ensuring Partners are informed, prepared and able to adopt new functionality effectively.
• Ensures Partners are making effective use of relevant and available OSP functionality, promoting adoption of standard capabilities and best practice to maximise operational value.
• Proactively monitors delivery of Partner‑relevant platform changes, working with internal stakeholders to resolve issues, manage dependencies and elevate risks where delivery may impact Partner operations or confidence.
• Balances Partner support needs with contractual commitments and commercial considerations, ensuring support is delivered in a way that is both Partner‑centric and commercially responsible.
• Builds and maintains strong, positive working relationships with Partner teams and internal stakeholders, fostering trust, transparency and effective collaboration.
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of Partner Success ways of working through sharing best practice, supporting cross‑partner initiatives, and helping evolve processes, standards and tooling across the function.

About you

Minimum

• Good written and verbal English and an additional European Language (ideally French, Spanish, Swedish or Polish)
• Experience in a retail or logistics operation
• Familiarity with continuous improvement and optimisation processes
• Stakeholder, relationship building and networking skills
• Self‑motivated with an ability to deliver to deadlines and multi‑task under pressure
• Highly organised and resilient with an eye for detail
• Ability to think strategically beyond the needs of the organisation today
• Understanding of project management frameworks
• Experience of working cross‑functionally both internally and externally to drive partnerships or projects
• Business management experience and commercial awareness
• Comfortable communicating with large groups of people
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty
• Able to handle difficult situations, facing challenges with positivity, confidence and pragmatism
• Bachelor degree or equivalent practical experience

Preferred (in addition to minimum)

• Experience of working in a client facing support organisation
• Experience with the Ocado Smart Platform

What we offer

We believe in supporting our people with meaningful, flexible benefits that prioritise well‑being and work‑life balance. Here’s a snapshot of what you can expect:

• Time to recharge:
  25 days annual leave (rising to 27 after 5 years), plus the option to buy more – and 30 days a year to work from anywhere in the world.
• Health & wellbeing:
  Private Medical Insurance from your first month, wellbeing support through specialist apps and EAP, plus Income Protection and Life Assurance.
• Family‑first policies:
  22 weeks paid maternity/primary carer leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave
• Financial support:
  Pension with employer matching up to 7%, share schemes (Sharesave & BAYE), and interest‑free loans for train tickets.
• Commuter perks:
  Cycle to Work Scheme and free shuttle buses to/from Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City stations.
• Exclusive discounts:
  15% off at Ocado.com with free delivery (starting in your first month).

Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status.