Commercial Assistant - Global Partnerships (9 month secondment)

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. That being said, we also know 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.

A rare opportunity has arisen for a Commercial Assistant within the Global Partnerships team on a 9 month secondment.

Our Global Partnerships team is responsible for delivering the objectives set by the Tesco Group Agreement Framework. We lead the Tesco Group in partnering with the largest, most forward thinking Branded suppliers to unlock joint growth opportunities and priorities.

This roles requires a strong commercial awareness, ongoing stakeholders management internally and externally, to develop trusted relationships with suppliers and Tesco Group stakeholders. You will be at the heart of strategic engagement plans.

• Building on my Commercial acumen I will work closely with the teams in the Product division, across the Tesco Group (Buying teams, Product Proposition, Promotions, Trade Planning), to ensure the relevant commercial strategy for each channel, market & category are aligned and executed efficiently. Support the delivery of key strategic projects across the product and channel teams
• Using a combination of data and business understanding to turn data into insight, root causing issues, defining problems, designing creative solutions and implementing them in the business.
• Maintaining & developing our suite of insight reports to give our operators and leadership visibility of how the business is performing and what we need to do to improve. Reporting data accurately and turning it into useful information which has context and supporting narrative.
• Owning a project; build engagement, influence relevant stakeholders and deliver change in line with milestones.
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and hand-over protocols and successfully completing all my training so that I have zero GSCOP breaches. Ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt, and leading a culture of compliance within the team.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence. This role will build your experience, knowledge and network profile to enable you to progress into further commercial roles within categories.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to engage and collaborate with other teams to deliver to objectives
• The ability to simplify complex issues and implement practical solutions
• The ability to innovate new and pragmatic solutions using your own ideas
• Able to work across various cultures

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• 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.