Head of Technical - Home/General Merchandise
| Posting date: | 12 March 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 March 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/15718214/931064 |
Summary
About the role
Lead the strategic delivery of safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products for the category, always focus on delivering for our customers and living our values, leading the team by example.
You will be responsible for
- Leading a team to ensure products, processes and suppliers are safe, legal, ethical, sustainable and meet relevant Tesco policy and audit requirements and customer expectations
- Leading a team of experts, mentoring & enabling them to achieve Quality critical metrics and be the guardians of brand integrity
- Minimising cost and risk throughout the supply chain and product range, and supervising sign off of products - Leading the review of quality feedback across the category(s), identifying and resolving risks to the brand
- Incident management (e.g. potential EPWs and recalls) and enforcement challenges in the category when raised
- Driving innovation/improvements in the field through horizon scanning and industry knowledge and mobilising the team to input and deliver these through category NPD & suppliers plans
- Leading the Quality plan to support the Category strategy
- Providing thought leadership on cross cutting projects and initiatives that drive improvement or support the business\' needs
- Contributing to and/or leading change programmes in the category
- Ensuring that the team & I maintain great relationships with our suppliers, sourcing and internal/external partners
- Forecasting and leading budgets effectively, always being cost conscious
- Developing and leading a high performing team, giving them the opportunities to be their best
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
You will need
Operational skills relevant for this job:
- Supplier Management
- Project/Programme Management
- Change Management
- Technical Auditing
- Partner Management
- Data Analysis
- Microsoft Office
- People management
Experience relevant for this job:
- Relevant product area knowledge/experience of delivering safe, legal, quality, responsibly sourced (ethics & environment) products to the customer
- Knowledge of legislation and technical standards
- Understanding of risk and risk assessment
- Understanding of end to end incident management
- Track record of leading and working in sophisticated NWTs
- Experience in crafting and driving strategy
- Experience of leading and developing a team
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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 45% of base salary
- Car Cash Allowance
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
- 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
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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