Category Sourcing Manager
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 November 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/14036628/964979 |
Summary
About the role
Do you have excellent analytical, project & stakeholder management skills? Are you looking for a challenging, varied role within Strategic Sourcing?
In this role, you will be responsible for identifying and sourcing from best-in-class suppliers in partnership with Category. By executing Supply Base Reviews (SBRs), evaluating incumbent past-performance, and leading retendering exercises (“Resets”) the role delivers optimal quality, value and availability for Tesco’s customers.
You will be responsible for
- Forming Natural Working Teams (NWTs) and leading Requests for Information and Quotation (RFIs and RFQs).
- Advocating best-practise sourcing processes and strategies across Tesco.
- Emphasising responsible and sustainable sourcing whilst minimising cost.
- Mitigating risk to quality, brand, supply/availability and cost.
- Working with analytical support teams to guide suppliers to improve their offer throughout each tender.
- Analysing supplier offers to identify cost savings and secure the best balance between Quality, Value, Innovation, and Supply (QVIS).
- Supporting category colleagues to develop and implement sourcing plans.
- Developing innovative commercial solutions to offer best-value to Tesco’s customers whilst improving operating profitability.
- Identifying and assessing potential new suppliers as well as building efficient long-term supplier relationships.
- Working In partnership with category; negotiating and collaborating with suppliers to resolve macro-economic issues such as inflation, regulatory and legal changes, and force majeure events.
- Building a leading vision to deliver a longer approach to supply.
- Driving continual improvement within the team and all sourcing initiatives across Tesco.
You will need
- Experience of identifying and implementing a best-in-class supply base.
- Experience of influencing and negotiating, and leading virtual teams.
- An ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision.
- An understanding of Supply/Value Chains and eSourcing platforms and portals.
- A collaborative and flexible team-working style.
- Strong project, time and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical and presentational skills.
- Strong Microsoft skills in Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
- Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) qualification (desirable).
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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 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 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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