Assistant Buyer - Newspapers and Magazines - 10 Month Fixed Term Contract / Secondment
| Posting date: | 19 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 March 2026 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/12955979/977739 |
Summary
About the role
As the Assistant Buyer for Newspapers and Magazines, you’ll take ownership of our Magazine promotional space, ensuring it delivers great value for customers while maximising commercial income. You’ll support the smooth running of the department by preparing reports and analysis for the Manager, while staying close to customer needs, market trends and competitor activity. You’ll also play a key part in sourcing products for our collectible ranges, such as football stickers and trading cards.
You will be responsible for
• Achievement of Commercial Income targets
• Developing and managing our Magazine promotional space for the benefit of customers whilst maximising commercial income from publishers
• Owning our day to day working relationship and operation with our Magazine Distributors (In the main 2 large companies)
• Agreement with suppliers and Implementation of Magazine promotions in store, including gathering feedback and insight for the review process
• Reporting Magazine performance and overseeing resulting action from that reporting
• Overseeing of new product selection for the core magazine range
• Leading and managing of our collectables range. For example - Football Stickers and Trading cards
• Owning the timely and accurate loading and oversight of our category commercial deals
• Working with suppliers and technical team to ensure product quality is achieved and maintained on our range of Own Label Magazines
You will need
Operational skills relevant for this job:
• Microsoft Excel skills
• Basic negotiation skills
Experience relevant for this job:
- Building and maintaining a broad and complex set of business relationships
- Working with short lead times and tight deadlines
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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