Buying Manager - Casual bottoms and Tailoring (12 month Parental Leave Cover - Part time - 3 days)

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. 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. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for an experienced and passionate Buying Manager to join our dynamic Clothing team here at Tesco covering ladies tailoring.

This role would suit someone who is already an experienced Buyer looking for a new challenge who can job share with another buying manager to deliver top line strategy and KPI’s.

Please note, this is a part time 12 month Parental Leave cover working 3 days a week.

• Creating a topline strategy for your department working with your Merchandise Planning Manager and your team to deliver this each season.
• Working with the design team to research and develop product ranges that will hit seasonal trends and set the standard.
• Building ranges for your category with merchandising colleagues, making sure you cater for all formats, countries and events.
• Reviewing existing supplier performance and leading the sourcing strategy for the department in agreement with your Head of Buying.
• Negotiating costs and setting the selling price to deliver product margin for the dept - working with suppliers and technical team to ensure fit and quality standards are met.
• Overseeing critical path with your team and suppliers, ensuring key dates are met to ensure on time launch.
• Trading your department with your Merchandise Planning Manager and suppliers to handle risk and opps. Ensuring we have knowledge of the market and competition, visiting stores to establish any shifts or trends that may affect sales and require action.
• Conducting seasonal buying trips to establish relationships with suppliers, understand manufacturing capability and opportunities, develop new products and negotiate prices and capacity plans.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.
• Developing and leading a strong team, giving them the opportunities to be their best.
• You will manage additional responsibilities that contribute to the running of the division and support your peer group.

• Clothing buying experience.
• Strategic planning skills.
• Product development experience.
• Range and trade planning experience.
• Leading and developing teams and working in strong partnership with job share.
• Sourcing and managing a remote supply base inc. FE/NE travel.
• Building strong business partnerships.
• Negotiation skills.
• Range and trade planning experience.
• Data analysis and numeracy skills.
• Coaching and managing people.

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 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 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• 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

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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. 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.