Category Planning Assistant - Prepared

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• 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 6 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. That being said, we also know 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, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Category Planning Assistant to join the Fresh Food team on our Prepared range.

Using insight to develop your category trade plan across all channels through space, range, price and promos ensuring you will deliver a great proposition for our customers. Influencing & working collaboratively across business functions to land the plans together against aligned objectives - this role would suit someone looking for a new challenge to stretch their experience.

You will be responsible for

• Using category insight to define and implement a multi-channel category strategy (price, promos), crafting a market leading customer proposition that drives sales andmarket share
• Define a clear multi-channel and cross format plan that maxes the mix and achieves category objectives
• 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 (promotions and events) to critical path
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all training so there are zero GSCOP breaches.
• Ensuring all supplier agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt, and leading a high level of compliance within the team

You will need

• Analytical and data interpretation skills
• Influencing and communication skills
• Highly inquisitive with passion for the customer
• Making decisions on customer and market data

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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.