Buying Manager - Festive Food to Order - Established

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Festive food to order helps customers plan ahead and access the best quality Christmas food Tesco has to offer in time for Christmas. It serves as a key Customers retention tool at Christmas, as well as importantly driving quality reappraisal of our premium Christmas range at a time where premium matters most.

This role is unique, requiring meticulous project management skills throughout the entire supply chain given the uniqueness in solely managing the entire end to end operation of Festive food to order. For this reason, no other buying role offers this level of operational management across a breadth of stakeholders in our business.

The purpose is to work with a wide team to curate a range that not only surprises and delights, but rewards loyalty and reassures Customers in time for their all important Christmas meal.

Given the uniqueness of this category and its set up, the planning for FFTO is an all year round role.

• Effectively leading several natural work streams simultaneously (inc. Buyers, Developers, Brand managers, Online, Technology and Supply chain).
• Overseeing the detail within the Festive food to order Marketing Brochure.
• Liaising with Depots and fulfilment teams to effectively plan demand and volume capacity across the Christmas week.
• Helping to build and source customer insight led ranges and innovation.
• 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.
• Supporting the Supply chain plan, helping getting our products in store on time is crucial.
• Working with category buyers, Quality teams and suppliers to ensure quality is achieved and maintained throughout the plan.

• Commercial buying experience.
• Project Management experience.
• Negotiation and influencing experience
• Report preparation and analysis
• Stakeholder and Supplier management experience.
• Experience with Data Analytics and Microsoft Excel.

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• 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
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• 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

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