Assistant Merchandise Planner - Supply Chain (parental leave cover)

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 5% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (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 Welwyn Garden City Station to Welwyn Campus
• 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

The Supply Chain team is responsible for the effective stock management & throughput for our UK & CE stores. We liaise directly with all depots and external partners, along with close relationships with merchandising teams and all operational functions

Streams within the team work closely together covering Intake, Output and Operations

The hiring manager is Cara Swain

You will be responsible for

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
• Being the key contact for our distribution colleagues
• Working across all supply chain functions: Planning, Intake & Operations. To ensure that Intake/Output is managed effectively and communicated to the business
• Ability to highlighting risks / opportunities and proposing solutions
• Understanding that internal customers and the DC’s have individual needs, tailoring reports to reflect this
• Challenging processes and ways of working to improve the service we provide
• Building strong relationships across the business to allow us the flexibility to react to trade performance
• Support in projects to improve efficiency of stock flow through our distribution centres & cost optimization
• Supporting the category in receiving stock to support sales & maintain stock levels, optimizing choice for customers
• Supports & able to deputise for Manager.
• This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.

You will need

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Have previous experience within a Supply chain
• Forecasting & Stock management experience
• You will have exceptional analytical skills and an aptitude for practical problem solving
• Comfortable working with large amounts of data and have proficient skills in excel
• Comfortable to work under pressure while completing multiple tasks
• Good verbal and written communication skills – be adaptable for your audience
• The ability to negotiate

Personal

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter 
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership

About us

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.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for 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.