Technologist - Bakery - 11 month parental leave cover

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

We are on the lookout for a Technologist to join our Bakery team here within our Quality Function. You will deliver/support safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products for your area always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value-led behaviour.

Please note: This is an 11 month parental leave cover.

You will be responsible for

• Supporting my Technical Manager (TM) and category to ensure that products in my area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief, Tesco rules & policies and customer expectations.
• Developing expertise in my field, achieving my KPIs and supporting development of policy/protocol in my category.
• Working with my TM to minimise cost and risk in the supply chain and product range, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for consistency, legality and quality of products & packaging and signing off products where appropriate.
• Ensuring required Due Diligence documents are in place. Ensuring labelling is legal and factually correct.
• Monitoring all quality feedback and assisting in implementing actions to resolve issues, ensuring customer queries are answered in a timely way.
• Escalating and gathering data to support Incident management and enforcement challenges in my product area.
• Inputting product, benchmarking, process and improvement ideas into the New Product Development plan.
• The technical critical path for new products/product changes, working with suppliers and flagging risks (Food only).
• Contributing to strategy development with Category teams, supplying data to identify the best suppliers & sources.
• Assisting to ensure my suppliers have appropriate Technical & ethical audits, & agreed action plans for improvement.
• Supporting my Technical Manager and category to monitor supplier and product performance, communicating trends to the team.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

You will need

• Relevant experience/qualification(s) in a related area.
• Quality control / assurance experience.
• Understanding of retail and customer needs.
• Passion for product.
• Data Analysis.
• Microsoft Excel.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Project Management.
• Supplier Management.

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.