Category Planning Assistant - Meat

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme.
• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus 8 Bank holidays).
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution.
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay.
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home.
• 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.

Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues.

About the role

We’re looking to recruit a customer focused category planning assistant to work in our Meat, Fish and Poultry team. Your primary role will be to shape our trade plan, both all year round and for seasonal events, working with buying and insights teams to ensure customers get great value every day.

The hiring manager for this role is Harry Gillespie.

You will be responsible for

• Responsible for the daily management of the Promotional/Event Critical Path, collate all promotional nominations.
• Tracking all promotion sales and circulating performance data to the team 
• Visiting stores to ensure promotional feature space compliance and then raising any challenges across all channels.
• Keeping up to date with market promotional activity and activation by regularly visiting Tesco and competition
• Manage the promotion count, adherence to principles and efficiency of promotions 
• Support delivery of space, range and price/promotional strategy to be executed by the relevant teams 
• Support execution of a clear multi channel and cross format sell plan that will achieve category objectives
• Manage image coverage online and over-seeing product data quality
• Price basket tracking of position, ensuring we are up to date on our price perception in the market
• Collaborate with the dunnhumby, online and shopper marketing to ensure all key initiatives are activated clearly 
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all my training so that I have zero GSCOP breaches. Follow our Business Code of Conduct and always act with integrity and due diligence
• Ensuring all supplier agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt, and leading a culture of compliance within my team
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will need

• Analysis & decision making
• Customer focus, marketing, commercial and operational awareness
• Ability to work to deadlines and manage Critical Paths
• Analytical and data interpretation skills
• Influencing and communication skills
• Experience of building cross-functional relationships across the business
   

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.