Technologist - Bakery - 11 month parental leave cover
| Posting date: | 26 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/16617688/983265 |
Summary
About the role
We are on the lookout for a Technologist to join our Bakery team here within our Quality Function. You will deliver/support safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products for your area always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value-led behaviour.
Please note: This is an 11 month parental leave cover.
You will be responsible for
- Supporting my Technical Manager (TM) and category to ensure that products in my area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief, Tesco rules & policies and customer expectations.
- Developing expertise in my field, achieving my KPIs and supporting development of policy/protocol in my category.
- Working with my TM to minimise cost and risk in the supply chain and product range, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for consistency, legality and quality of products & packaging and signing off products where appropriate.
- Ensuring required Due Diligence documents are in place. Ensuring labelling is legal and factually correct.
- Monitoring all quality feedback and assisting in implementing actions to resolve issues, ensuring customer queries are answered in a timely way.
- Escalating and gathering data to support Incident management and enforcement challenges in my product area.
- Inputting product, benchmarking, 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).
- Contributing to strategy development with Category teams, supplying data to identify the best suppliers & sources.
- Assisting to ensure my suppliers have appropriate Technical & ethical audits, & agreed action plans for improvement.
- Supporting my Technical Manager and category to monitor supplier and product performance, communicating trends to the team.
- 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.
- Quality control / assurance experience.
- Understanding of retail and customer needs.
- Passion for product.
- Data Analysis.
- Microsoft Excel.
- Stakeholder Management.
- Project Management.
- Supplier Management.
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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