Ocado Group Hiring for Human Resources Project Manager at Hatfield Full Time

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, age, disability or union membership status.

Ocado 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 warehouse that we design in-house, our employees need to be specialists in a wide range of technologies to help drive our business.

We champion a value-led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment that our people love. Core values of Trust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, Collaboration and Learn Fast help drive our innovative culture. But don’t just take our word for it, have a look at what our people are saying about us on Glassdoor.

Ocado People Team , We’re looking for a mid-level project manager with experience in HR to join our growing team, and help us shape new initiatives across our division. If you have strong HR knowledge and/or have project management skills, this role could be for you.

So whats the role?

Have overall responsibility for delivering people team projects for the client business under guidance from the People Director, Client Business.

Help to create and agree the overall approach for the projects, define the plan and milestones needed to deliver

Collaborate closely with our People Partners within the Client Business and across the Ocado Group

Be the single point of contact for the projects, offering strategic oversight.

Identifying and mobilising the right resources to support key projects including forums and feedback loops.

Provide timely data and analysis to support effective action and decision making e.g. sourcing relevant MI to support proactive management.

Establish and track key metrics to keep on top of progress and provide regular periodic status reports to the Client Business.

Partner with the central PMO team to ensure prioritisation and full information is done

Support the People Director with managing the goals for the client business

Create appropriate packs/decks as needed for the forums

Write internal communications for areas of the client business as and when required

What we would like to see..

A strong understanding of HR principles and functions, including understanding of people impacts and implications during change

Previous experience of being a project manager on projects with people impact from 20 to 500+.

Confident with working with and influencing senior stakeholders, facilitating and directing to drive the project forward.

Experience working through multiple interdependencies and complexity to start producing value in a short period of time.

Experience of being flexible and adapting to changing information and requirements quickly.

Excellent communication skills including strong experience of producing papers and slides

About Ocado Group

When our journey started, we were all about changing the way people shop for groceries. 20 years later, we’re a FTSE 100 business developing our own ground breaking technology, opening multiple sites at an accelerating rate and engaging in exciting new business partnerships around the world!

Transforming an industry also means transforming the way we do business. As we continually develop new technologies and customer propositions, we’re looking for the brightest talents to lead us into the next stage of our evolution: enhancing our capabilities, inspiring our teams and developing new ways of working.

Benefits

All Ocado employees are offered a benefits package of – 25 days holiday, 15% discount on your weekly Ocado shop, paternity and maternity leave, pension, share options, discounts on gym memberships and family friendly offers.