Healthy & Sustainable Diets Manager (12 month Fixed Term Contract)

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 fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Healthy and Sustainable Diets Manager on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

At Tesco, we are committed to supporting the health of our customers and the planet, by helping our customers access healthy, sustainable, affordable and inspiring food. In this role, you will support this agenda by leading the project plan to deliver on our target to reach 65% Healthy Sales by the end of 2025, You will analyse problems, develop solutions, and manage end to end projects, working collaboratively with colleagues to deliver our healthy and sustainable diets commitments.

You will be responsible for

• Creating and delivering the project plan that supports the delivery of the “Healthy & Sustainable Diets” programme and commitments, including our current target to reach 65% Healthy Sales by the end of 2025
• Help us create data-driven impact, by managing and improving the data used to track our performance against our health commitments
• Collaborating across the business, particularly commercial, customer and insight teams to deliver our Healthy & Sustainable Diets strategy in an impactful way
• Working with our ESG Finance team on external auditing of our health commitments, as well as supporting both internal and external reporting
• Providing updates to key stakeholders on the delivery of the “Healthy & Sustainable Diets” programme across Tesco Group (including UK, Central Europe and Republic of Ireland)
• Engaging with colleagues across the group to share best practice and learnings Identifying improvements that can be used to enhance the performance measurements tools that support the “Healthy & Sustainable Diets” programme
• Forecasting and managing budgets effectively, always being cost conscious

You will need

• Knowledge and interest in the key issues impacting Healthy & Sustainable Diets, including the Nutrient Profiling Model
• Previous experience of working in cross-functional project delivery
• Experience managing large data sets

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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.