Assistant Buyer - Mushrooms - 12 Month Parental Leave Cover
| Posting date: | 12 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 27 February 2026 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/14036628/971930 |
Summary
About the role
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Produce buying team as the Assistant Buyer for Mushrooms, reporting into the Buying Manager for Chilled Salad.
Produce is at the very core of the Tesco - a really exciting and fast-paced area to work in. Mushrooms are a complex area which requires an ability to manage multiple suppliers and growers, their individual strategies and how that links to the overall mushroom strategy.
The role involves some international travel to visit suppliers and growers.
You will be responsible for
- Using insight tools to analyse and understand performance issues and opportunities.
- Conducting regular store/website visits and reviewing customer insight and food trends, helping shape our future product and range requirements for our customers.
- Helping to build and source customer/market insight led ranges and product innovation.
- Negotiating with suppliers to agree and deliver market leading buy/move/sell plans for the areas aligned to the customer plan & category strategy with support from your manager.
- Supporting delivery of trade, promotions & events plan, striving to exceed KPIs, drive footfall and forecast accurately.
- Working with suppliers and the category quality team to ensure product quality is achieved and maintained.
- Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all your training so that you have zero GSCOP breaches.
- Ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt.
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.
You will need
- Range and Trade planning experience.
- Experience Negotiating and Analysing data.
- Working well across teams and building strong relationships.
- Previous Food Buying 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 10% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- 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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