Technical Manager - Prepared
| 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: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/16617688/977749 |
Summary
About the role
We are on the lookout for a Technical Manager to join our Prepared team within our Quality function. You will deliver safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products for your area always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value-led behaviour.
You will be responsible for
- Ensuring products in my area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief, Tesco rules & policies.
- Being the expert in my field, achieving my KPIs and supporting development of policy/protocol in my category.
- Minimising cost and risk throughout the supply chain and product range, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for consistency, legality and quality of products & packaging and signing off products at appropriate milestones.
- Ensuring required Due Diligence documents are in place. Ensuring labelling is legal and factually correct.
- Monitoring all quality and customer feedback and implementing actions to resolve issues raised.
- Management & reduction of customer complaints, incidents (EPWs,recalls) and enforcement challenges in my area.
- Inputting product, process and improvement ideas into the New Product Development plan.
- The technical critical path for new products/product changes, working with suppliers and flagging risks (Food only).
- Developing the strategy with Category teams, identifying and developing the best suppliers & sources.
- Ensuring my suppliers have Technical and ethical audits as required, agreeing action plans to drive improvement.
- Managing and developing long term partnerships with suppliers, improving processes, quality and value.
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
You will need
- Relevant experience/qualification(s) in a related area.
- Relevant product area knowledge/experience of delivering safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products to the customer.
- Knowledge of legislation and technical standards.
- Understanding of risk and risk assessment.
- Understanding of end to end Incident Management process.
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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