Assistant Technologist - Fabric - F&F

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving.  And helps make every day a little better for you and your family.  These include but are not limited to:

• Colleague bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 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 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• 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
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here 
• 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

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About the role

We have a fantastic opportunity within our F&F team for an Assistant Technologist responsible for Fabric to join our team! You will deliver and support safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality fabrics for your area always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value-led behaviour.

You will be responsible for

• Supporting the Technical Manager and category to ensure that products not only meet customer expectations but are legal, safe, responsibly, and sustainably sourced to meet our policies and commitments.
• Working with raw material teams and suppliers on upstream transparency and mill management through fabric key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Raw Material Management on KPI System, reporting analysis and actioning follow up on compliance gaps.
• Supporting fabric team to maintain core fabrics and base approval process, including management of physical library.
• Involvement in product benchmarking to analysis raw material quality against competitor and collate details for presenting to the wider team.
• Escalating and gathering data to support Incident management and quality performance issues.
• Creating case studies from incidents.
• Conducting spot checks across suppliers and systems to ensure data compliance and propose actions on gaps identified.
• Working with internal and external teams to proactively support colour empowerment program and ways of working
• Coordinating and monitoring use of Tesco core colour standards and ensuring consistency in product across suppliers.
• Assisting fabric team to ensure suppliers have completed relevant training, maintaining certification program requirements.
• Developing expertise in all areas of textiles and mill process.
• Supporting the team and category in researching and presenting innovation in fibre, fabric, and finishes.
• Adhoc management of purchase orders, supplier updates and communication, fabric team events etc.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will need

Operational Skills:

• Computer literate in Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Comfortable exploring existing and new databases
• Analytical and data driven to support upstream raw material transparency and mill management
• Good communication skills
• Experience in stakeholder and supplier management

Experience:

• Degree in textiles and industry experience beneficial, however a recent graduate would be considered
• Understanding of fibre, yarns and fabric construction, fabric dyeing, printing and finishing processes
• Passion for product, sustainability and circularity

Useful but not essential:

• Quality control / assurance experience
• Testing / laboratory experience
• Understanding of retail and customer needs

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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 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.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.