Senior Data Scientist - Autoplanner (Global Planning)

Ocado; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Pension with employer matching

Share schemes

Cycle to Work Scheme

Discounts at Ocado.com

Job summary

Ocado Group in London is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Autoplanner team. You will build AI-powered planning models that unify warehousing and last‑mile operations, taking models from concept to monitored production systems used across global supply chains.

You will mentor colleagues, collaborate with software engineers and product managers, and translate complex logistics challenges into production‑ready data science solutions for partners worldwide.

Qualifications

• Production ML systems taken from prototype to monitoring in production.
• Strong ML and statistics to evaluate models against business metrics.
• Production-quality Python code and data processing.
• Experience querying large datasets in cloud data warehouses (BigQuery).
• Experience building simulations or stochastic models of operations.
• Experience with AI coding agents and validating generated code.
• Ability to collaborate with software engineers, PMs and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver ML models for planning products, from prototype to production artefacts.
• Explore modelling and optimisation approaches and benchmark against existing solutions.
• Build simulations of warehouse operations and demand to power live plans.
• Define metrics and evaluate models using robust statistics.
• Set technical direction and delivery strategy for data science initiatives.
• Mentor and develop data scientists across the team.
• Partner with software engineers to package, deploy, and monitor models on the platform.
• Own relationships with product managers and external retailers to align roadmaps.

Skills

Production ML

Python

BigQuery

Simulations

AI coding agents

Collaboration

Tools

BigQuery

OR-Tools

SimPy

Job description

Ocado Group in London is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Autoplanner team. You will build AI-powered planning models that unify warehousing and last‑mile operations, taking models from concept to monitored production systems used across global supply chains.

You will mentor colleagues, collaborate with software engineers and product managers, and translate complex logistics challenges into production‑ready data science solutions for partners worldwide.