Buying Manager - Ambient (Scotland)

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 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. 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, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

A unique opportunity has arisen for someone to join the team as a Buying Manager on Ambient for Scotland. 

The successful candidate will source and buy great quality products from our local suppliers across Scotland, ensuring that our local customers have the best offer, range and prices available. Specifically you will be responsible for managing the Packaged & Bakery suppliers, working in collaboration with the wider Local Sourcing team and Category teams.

Sourcing local products from Scottish suppliers means that the role will involve travelling around Scotland visiting stores and supplier sites. There will also be travel to other Tesco locations such as our Head Office in Welwyn Garden City as required.

You will be responsible for

• Accountable for delivering the local strategy across the Packaged/Bakery supply base in Scotland, taking inputs from customer insight, channels, and other local stakeholders.
• Deliver the customer led plan working in partnership with our local supplier partners and aligned to individual category objectives.
• Working with supplier partners, retail leadership teams in the regions, product categories and local government organizations.
• Negotiate with supplier partners to deliver market leading product costs and investment.
• Build and source customer / market insight led ranges and product innovation for your department, making sure you cater for all formats, regions and affluence levels. 
• Conducting regular store and website visits to understand how the ranges have landed in store, keeping abreast of competitor and category developments to inform future range development.
• Supporting the department’s trade, promotions and events plan, striving to exceed KPI forecasts and drive footfall.
• Supporting the Supply Chain Plan, helping getting our products in store on time for our customers.
• Operating within all Tesco policies and procedures and adhering to GSCOP regulations.

You will need

• Commercial buying experience

• Range and trade planning experience

• Ability to analyse complex data

• Experience of working in a remote team

• Experience of influencing and negotiation

• Multi-level stakeholder management experience

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, specifically Excel/Outlook/Powerpoint/Word

• An understanding of supplier economics

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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.