Buying Manager - Innovation (Community)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 05 Rhagfyr 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 22 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Cwmni: | Tesco |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | tesco/TP/14036628/970328 |
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About the role
We’re looking for a Buying Manager to lead innovation within our Accelerator programme, supporting community brands as they grow with Tesco. In this role, you’ll act as the primary buying contact for these brands, ensuring customers have access to the best range, offers and prices. You’ll also provide hands-on support with business planning, systems management, ranging and trade plans.
Collaboration is key. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across Tesco and maintain strong relationships with category teams, setting clear targets and driving alignment to accelerate growth for both Tesco and our branded partners.
You’ll also play a pivotal role in project and programme management, supporting equity-based initiatives as part of the Black Action Plan Commercial Equity working group. Your ability to inspire, engage and lead will ensure supplier partners, colleagues and customers feel valued and represented.
You will be responsible for
- Identifying and assessing new suppliers to deliver market leading product innovation under Community pillar of the Accelerator programme. The Accelerator programme Community pillar focuses on small suppliers, brands and products that help Tesco to better represent the customers and communities we serve.
- Leading buying contact for the Accelerator (Community) brands, providing commercial support/coaching/mentoring.
- Building and managing supplier relationships through a supplier strategy to develop a market-leading buy, move and sell plan aligned to the customer plan and the innovation strategy.
- Understand opportunities for longer-term planning to support earlier-stage start-ups become retail ready (development based on supplier maturity level).
- This role is integrated within the Tesco Black Action Plan team, supporting the Commercial Equity Pillar. Responsibilities include representing Tesco at external events in order to build visibility & profile within Black entrepreneur communities. Building relationships within the Black entrepreneur community; refining mentoring framework to support pipeline of Black-owned brands.
- Supporting the range strategy to implement an insight-lead and customer-focused range which delivers financial KPIs.
- Delivering my team sales and quantum profit budget, market share and out-performance targets.
- Developing and leading a high performing team, giving them the opportunities to be their best.
- Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and hand-over protocols and successfully completing all the training so that you have zero GSCOP breaches.
You will need
- Ability to navigate through & engage wide range of stakeholders.
- Buying experience preferred.
- Previous Range and trade planning experience.
- Influencing and negotiation experience.
- Previous Stakeholder management and Supplier management experience.
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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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