Technologist – Drinks
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/5736580/880814 |
Summary
About the role
This role is a fantastic opportunity to work as a valued colleague in a high performing team within the dynamic impulse - drinks category. Working within a well-respected and collaborative Natural Work Team to deliver quality and value, with the support of other impulse technical colleagues.
You will be responsible for
- Ensuring products in area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief, Tesco rules & policies
- Being the expert in your field, achieving KPIs and supporting development of policy/protocol in your category
- Minimising cost and risk throughout the supply chain and product range, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for consistency, legality and quality of products & packaging and signing off products at appropriate milestones
- Ensuring required Due Diligence documents are in place. Ensuring labelling is legal and factually correct
- Monitoring all quality and customer feedback and implementing actions to resolve issues raised
- Management & reduction of customer complaints, incidents (EPWs,recalls) and enforcement challenges in my area
- Inputting product, 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
- Developing the strategy with Category teams, identifying and developing the best suppliers & sources
- Ensuring suppliers have Technical and ethical audits as required, agreeing action plans to drive improvement
- Managing and developing long term partnerships with suppliers, improving processes, quality and value
- Supporting Suppliers to deliver against our sustainability and health goals
- Working with supplier to understand and address any human rights risks within their supply chains
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
You will need
- Relevant experience/qualification(s) in food safety /manufacturing.
- Relevant product area knowledge/experience of delivering safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products to the customer
- Knowledge of legislation and technical standards
- Understanding of risk and risk assessment
- Understanding of end to end Incident Management process
- Customer focused
- Strong Initiative with proactive ways of working
- Personable and able build strong relationship and collaborate with all stakeholders and suppliers
- Analytical; able to interpret data and make decisions; even if all facts are not available
- Able to multitask and prioritise effectively
- Agile and open minded in approach
- Work well under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office packages
- Previous relevant experience and a proven, successful track record of delivering safe, legal and ethical products to the customer is essential
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
- Colleague bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 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
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- 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
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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