Assistant Buyer - Fresh & Packaged Food

We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for ambitious and hard-working Assistant Buyers to join our dynamic Food team here at Tesco. Tesco is a leading multinational retailer and as an Assistant Buyer at Tesco, you will play a huge role within the team. 

Within Fresh & Packaged Food categories vary & could include Fresh Meat, Pet, Household, Beauty, Bakery, Hot Beverages, Snacks.  You will be working in a fast-paced, rewarding environment with a dynamic & hardworking team & we will provide you with excellent training & development throughout your buying journey with us!

We responsibly source and buy great quality products that allow us to give our customers the best offers, range, quality and price.  In recent months & in response to a shift in customer shopping habits we have increased capacity from 600,000 online delivery slots to over 1.5 million a week - whichever area of Commercial Product you join, your work has the potential to positively affect the lives of millions of Tesco customers every week.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. Please talk to the Hiring Manager about how they can support you.

• Supporting your manager to manage supplier performance, identifying potential new suppliers and supporting to build long term supplier relationships
• Using insight tools to analyse and understand performance issues and opportunities. 
• Conducting regular store/website visits and reviewing customer insight and food trends, helping shape our future product and range requirements for our customers
• Helping to build and source customer/market insight led ranges and product innovation
• Negotiating with suppliers to agree and deliver market leading buy/move/sell plans for the areas aligned to the customer plan & category strategy with support from your manager
• Supporting delivery of trade, promotions & events plan, striving to exceed KPIs, drive footfall and forecast accurately
• Supporting the Supply Chain Plan, helping getting our products in store on time
• Working with suppliers and the category quality team to ensure product quality is achieved and maintained 
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all your training
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

Experience:

• A passion for fast paced retail or experience of working in an FMCG organisation
• Buying (preferred)
• Range & trade planning
• Report preparation and analysis

Operational skills:

• Influencing & negotiation
• Stakeholder management
• Supplier management
• Buying and Range management
• Trade planning
• Data analysis
• Microsoft Excel

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We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving.  And helps make every day a little better for you and your family.  These include but are not limited to:

• Colleague bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here 
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.