Technologist Seasonal Events - Established

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

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. Please talk to the Hiring Manager about how they can support you.

We have a super opportunity for a Technologist to join our technical team. You'll be part of our amazing team to support our Seasonal Events buying category. We're looking for someone who will need to be able to deliver safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products, always focussing on our customers!

You will be responsible for

• Ensuring that product meets the product brief/specification, Tesco rules & policies and customer expectations
• Working our commercial team to minimize cost to the supply chain and product range, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for consistent quality of products, and signing off products where appropriate
• Monitoring all quality and customer feedback and implementing action plans to resolve issues raised and prevent them happening again
• Escalating and gathering data to support Incident management and enforcement challenges in my product area
• Inputting product, process and improvement ideas into the New Product Development plan
• Input into Category Teams Strategy focusing on the customer, supplying data to identify the best suppliers and sources from a product, sustainability and ethical first initiative
• Assisting to ensure my suppliers meet our audit requirements, ensuring they have action plans to drive improvement
• Supporting my TM and category to monitor supplier and product performance, communicating trends to the team
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will need

• Relevant experience/qualification(s) in a related area
• Relevant knowledge/experience of delivering safe, legal and responsibly sourced, great quality products to our customers
• Basic knowledge of legislation and technical standards
• Understanding of retail and customer needs
• Understanding of risk and risk assessment

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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.