Cost Insight Manager
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/16617688/968485 |
Summary
About the role
We are on the lookout for a Cost Insight Manager. This person will be managing and leading the Cost Insight programme in Food and across Group to support the buying team in identifying and modelling cost risk and opportunities.
You will be responsible for
- Lead Cost Insight team and Programme: Drive cost modelling initiatives across categories and group functions.
- Develop Processes & Reports: Create tools and frameworks to assess cost risks (commodities, FX, processing costs).
- Support Strategic Decisions: Provide intelligence to inform sourcing and own-brand supply strategies.
- Engage Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Finance, Legal, Technology, and Transformation teams to optimize systems and governance.
- E2E Cost analysis (Commodity, FX, Energy, Packaging..): Understand supplier exposure across categories and geographies.
- Briefings & Communication: Prepare regular updates for senior management and category teams.
- Project Participation: Contribute to sourcing transformation projects and efficiency initiatives.
- Support on Category and Commodity model transformation projects.
- Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all my training so that I have zero GSCOP breaches.
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.
You will need
- Commodity market knowledge.
- Consulting.
- Buying and procurement within agricultural sector.
- Understanding of country and global supply chain products.
- Cost modelling understanding.
- Negotiation.
- Supplier management.
- Stakeholder management.
- Data Analysis.
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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