Central Category Planning Manager: Frozen & Chilled, Plant Based & Party Food
| Posting date: | 20 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 January 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/8568366/914650 |
Summary
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.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Central Category Planning Manager - Frozen. This role will see the successful candidate lead change by using customer, commercial and market insight to develop the category strategy for range, commercial growth, price, promotion, merchandising and customer communication. Leading and representing the category in future growth and new product development projects, setting the category up for sustainable growth long term, ensuring that they deliver a great proposition for our customers, community and planet.
You will be responsible for
- Using category insight to define and execute a multi-channel category strategy (space, range, price, promos), creating a market leading customer proposition that drives sales and market share
- Defining a clear multi-channel and cross format plan that maxes the mix and achieves category objectives
- Standing over price and price health in line with agreed category plans
- Defining 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 (range reviews, promotions and events) to critical path
- Managing image coverage online and over-see product data quality (taxonomy, search terms etc.)
- Accountability for ensuring the range delivers against customer needs (Price, Serving, Tier, Need State) and operational requirements e.g. availability
- Working across Supplier, Customer and Dunnhumby teams to deliver Customer activation in store and online.
- Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all my training so that I have zero GSCOP breaches.
- Follow our Business Code of Conduct and always act with integrity and due diligence
- Ensuring all supplier agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt, and leading a culture of compliance within my team
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
You will need
- Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
- Strong Influencing and communication skills
- Experience of building cross-functional relationships across the business
- Highly inquisitive with passion for the customer
- Proven track record of making decisions on customer and market data
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- 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 4 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 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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