Buying Manager Chicken - Stretch

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 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
• 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

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. 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. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, please talk to the Hiring Manager about how they can support you.

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Ingredients Buying Manager to join our dynamic ingredients team.

This exciting, Buying Manager stretch role sits within the Meat, Fish, Poultry and Eggs category in the Fresh Foods Division.

You will be looking after Fresh Primary Chicken, an area which is at the heartland of Fresh Food as Chicken is a key driver to winning the total Tesco shopping basket. This opportunity is to lead the Buying and Category Strategy for Chicken, where our ambition is to Sell More Better Quality Chicken, delivered through market leading quality, a welfare step change, and relentless focus on availability and pricing.

You will get the breadth of experience of managing Tesco Own Brand products from farm to fork.

You will be responsible for

• Marketing out performance and share growth
• Delivering the best magnetic value in the market
• Forecasting & managing profitability across the year
•  Providing a great quality, prices and service level on a consistent basis
•  Carrying out Improvements to quality & costs through improvements to our operating model from farm to fork
• Leading on Quality, Welfare and Planet plan for Chicken
• Leading our Supplier Reset to ensure long term Security of supply

You will need

• Experience in Food related roles
• Buying experience
• Supplier Management experience
• Range & trade planning experience
• Commercial forecasting experience
• Analytical and data interpretation skills
• Influencing and communication skills
• Highly inquisitive with passion for the customer

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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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. 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.