The following content displays a map of the jobs location - WGC - Head Office

Category Planning Manager - Beauty (Established)

Job Reference tesco/TP/12504521/740465

This job has been closed.

Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Permanent
Salary:
Competitive
Working Hours:
36
Location:
WGC - Head Office
Closing Date:
21/07/2022
Job Category:
Category, Trade Planning & Strategy
Business Unit:
GB Head Office

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 25 days plus a personal day (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

Great opportunity for someone who is passionate about customers and interested in the beauty industry. Together with some of the leading suppliers in Beauty you will get a chance to build plans essential for the success of the category. The Health, Beauty and Wellness category at Tesco is very dynamic and exciting area with big plans in the coming years as we land our new fixturisation and merchandising layouts. The role is hugely rewarding with so many big plans in the pipeline.

Role is ideal for someone who is tenacious about doing the right thing for both colleagues and customers with an interest in operations and project management. Experienced category manager is ideal but not essential. 

The hiring manager for this role is Sarah Sturgeon.

You will be responsible for

  • Using category insight to define and execute a multi-channel category strategy (space, range, price, promos), creating a market leading customer proposition that drives sales and market share
  • Define a clear multi-channel and cross format plan that maxes the mix and achieves category objectives
  • Standing over price and price health in line with agreed category plans
  • Define the category trade plan to deliver a great offer for our customers in line with feature space principles
  • Delivering customer-facing activity across all channels (range reviews, promotions and events) to critical path
  • Managing image coverage online and over-see product data quality (taxonomy, search terms etc.)
  • Accountability for ensuring the range delivers against customer needs (Price, Serving, Tier, Need State) and operational requirements e.g. availability
  • Working across Supplier, Customer and Dunnhumby teams to deliver Customer activation in store and online.
  • Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all my training so that there are 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

Operational Skills

  • Insight and strategy
  • Analysis  and decision making
  • Customer focus, marketing, commercial and operational awareness
  • Ability to present, influence & mobilise multiple stakeholders (stakeholder management)
  • Project/Change Management
  • Forecasting

Relevant Experience

  • Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
  • Significant previous WL2 BM or Category Planning Manager experience
  • Experience of building cross-functional relationships across the business
  • Highly inquisitive with passion for the customer
  • Proven track record of making decisions on customer and market data

Key People & Teams

  • Customer Team - you are the key point of contact
  • Buying teams
  • SRD/Property/Dotcom
  • Suppliers/Agencies and Dunhumby media
  • Retail support

People, Budgets and other Resources

  • Direct line management of 1

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.