Lead Buying Manager - Accessories - 12 Month Secondment

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:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• 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 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. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We are delighted to share that a new opportunity has arisen for a Lead Buying Manager to join the Home Accessories team on a secondment basis (12 months)

Working alongside the merchandising manager, you will be responsible for ensuring we plan and deliver the most commercial and profitable ranges to meet our Customer’s needs.  

The successful candidate will have strong range and trade planning experience as well as time spent leading and developing teams.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced buying manager looking for a lead position or a sideways move for a new challenge to broaden their experience.

The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Katy Strachan

You will be responsible for

• Supporting the category strategy review process and strategic change programmes and then translating that into clear plans for my team to drive category growth
• Encouraging my team to build long term supplier relationships, improving the trading position in a sustainable way
• Reviewing existing supplier performance and new supplier proposals
• Leading or supporting complex negotiations by the buying team, attending regular meetings with key suppliers
• Challenging my team continually to create a range our customers love, whilst optimising sales and margin 
• Ensuring price is competitive and profitable throughout seasonal trading
• Working alongside my merchandising colleagues to set the category trade and events plan with market leading and customer insight driven promotions and events
• Ensuring the range and trade plans are delivered, safeguarding adherence to the critical path
• Completing buying trips to the sourcing hubs to review new product developments, meet with suppliers and foster relationships with IS
• Developing and leading a high performing team, giving them the opportunities to be their best
• Forecasting and managing my budgets effectively, always being cost conscious

You will need

• Category management (from strategy/planning, open to buy and exit management)
• Range and trade planning
• Product Development
• Key eye on the competition and market
• Leading and developing teams

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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.