Promotions Optimisation Manager

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work.  These include but aren’t limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme where you can earn up to 3.5% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays)
• On-site state of the art gym at our Welwyn Campus with discounted “Gympass” membership & free health checks via Nuffield Health
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• Share Schemes – Join our ‘Buy As You Earn’ & ‘Save As You Earn’ share schemes after 3 months service
• Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 3 months service
• Colleague Discounts:
  • 10% increasing to 15% after every pay day for a four day period, off most purchases at Tesco
  • 10% off One Stop
  • 10% off pay monthly & SIM only deals with Tesco Mobile
  • 20% off all F&F purchases
  • 20% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco bank. T&C’s apply
  • 25% off Tesco Café
  • 50% off complete glasses purchases & free eye tests (other offers available) at Vision Express
  • 50% off health checks at Tesco Pharmacy
• An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Shuttle Bus Service to/from Hatfield & Welwyn Garden City Station to Welwyn Campus & Hatfield Offices
• 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
• Our Employee Assistance Programme helps you deal with life’s challenges
• Financial wellness - Tesco has partnered with experts to help you make the most of your money

Get involved in a range of fundraising activities with our long-term charity partners

About the role

This role will lead, shape and identify commercial opportunities across our Promotions Framework and strategy that will support Tesco in improving its core business.

You will be responsible for

• Develop strong relationships with Category Buying teams to help understand issues with internal and external processes and tools which support promotions and develop relevant improvement plans  
• Provide valuable data, science and insight to the Category Buying teams to drive and execute the optimum promotions plan/strategy, delivering great offers for customers first and driving sales and margin benefit to Tesco
• Co-develop and sponsor new Promotion tools and techniques which improve the efficiency of the promotions planning process and decision making across the Category Buying areas we support
• Share promotions best practice across Category teams so we are always raising the bar with Promotions strategy,  development and execution
• Support and respond to ad hoc challenges relating to Promotions ensuring we are driving plans to deliver positive profitability, sales and volume performance metrics across all our channels
• Manage the relationship and key workplan for Dunnhumby to ensure we have the most efficient and effective tools and data science to support the team in driving Promotions strategy 
• Deliver compelling and insight led performance packs to support Promotions activity that engages colleagues and senior leader audiences with the key Promotions activities and plans
• Follow our Business Code of Conduct and always act with integrity and due diligence

You will need

Experience relevant for this job:

•  Interpret complex data and analytics to drive strategy and recommendations
• Experience in a commercial facing environment - buying team / promotions planning experience a clear advantage
• Ability to work cross functionally 
• Commercial and financial acumen

Operational skills relevant for this job:

• Advanced Powerpoint Essential
• Excel Essential
• Outlook
• Tableau, Power BI, SQL experience preferable

About us

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues. It is part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work!

We are the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.

But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, we have a vast variety of roles and we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business. We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone is welcome and truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings to enable us to serve our shoppers a little better every day. We strive to create a workforce that reflects our customers not only here in the UK, but worldwide. Our aim is to attract and welcome a diverse range applicants from all walks of life, offering many varying working patterns across our business and we would love to hear from you!

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.