Data Science Graduate

Data Science Graduate

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Hatfield (Hybrid working - 3 days in the office)

Working hours per week: 40 hours

Level: Entry level - Graduate

Starting Salary: £32,000

Final date to receive applications: Sunday 1st November 2026

Scheme commences: September 2027

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, . Not only is 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.

Data is core to our decision making, and we have one of the richest datasets in the industry. The Data Science team develops models which turn our data into actionable insights. It is our mission to leverage data to give the best value and experience to our customers and suppliers whilst increasing profitability and growth for Ocado Retail.

The Data Science team is responsible for understanding the complexities in the data, generating appropriate models to answer business questions, and delivering the outputs of these models to stakeholders in diverse areas of the business. It is our responsibility to work across functions to product ionise these models so they are available to the right people, any time they need them. This could be in the form of a data table with the outputs of the model, or developing an interface to allow users to interact with the data in a way that allows them to leverage models for their specific needs.

We also develop multi-agent AI systems to solve for complicated workflows. This means that we have to truly understand the business users, their needs and the goals they are trying to achieve in order to create AI systems that can deliver value for those users. To do this we have to understand the art of the possible with AI, and have to keep up with an ever changing AI technology space.

Our remit is to apply statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to our data  do this we use Python, SQL, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We are cross-functional by design, working with stakeholders across the business with varying degrees of technical expertise, meaning communicating complex ideas is core to the success of the Data Science team.

This scheme is about learning how we apply data science in Ocado Retail. The majority of your time will be spent in the Data Science team, owning projects from start to finish with responsibility for managing stakeholders and delivery of data science solutions with support from the wider team. This will allow you to continue to develop your Python and SQL skills to answer business questions.

There will be opportunities to rotate into other areas of the business and explore analytics, insight and data engineering with Ocado Retail.

You will be given support and guidance from the Data Science team in scoping out data science projects, developing novel solutions and delivering these to key stakeholders. A typical project involves researching a business question within the context of scientific literature, identifying relevant data sources, developing models that provide an answer to the question, and delivering this to our internal stakeholders.

Throughout this process there is clear communication of progress of the project to the wider team, alongside our stakeholders.

You will be taught our coding standards, and will be producing production-ready code by the end of the programme. At the…