Media Support Executive - 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

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.

This role supports the Press Office team with building trust in the business and mitigating reputational risk by ensuring the smooth management of key resources and administrative duties.

• Creating and updating key Press Office resources including contact lists, Press Office guide and Q&As
• Creating ad hoc media monitoring and summaries during live issues and partnering with external media monitoring agency to ensure delivery of effective monitoring and analysis.
• Continual review and optimisation of PR Gloo platform (database of media enquiries and prepared responses)
• Reviewing filming requests and managing shoots where needed
• Supporting Press Office team with responding to media enquiries, where appropriate
• Systems administration - ensuring the smooth running and effective us of Teams calling and the Press Office inbox
• Budget administration - setting up suppliers, creating POs and managing Subscriptions
• Creating and updating rotas for the team.
• Drafting weekly summary of Press Office activity and other ad hoc reports as needed.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
• Supporting the press office outside of normal working hours as part of on-call rota

• Excellent organisation and prioritisation
• Good command of Excel and Powerpoint preferable
• Strong written communication skills

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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 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.