Tesco UK Welwyn Garden City Hybrid Full-Time Permanent Working hours 36 Apply by 26-Jun-2026
About the role
The Cooking Ingredients category is a staple and vital category for customer’s mealtimes. You’ll play a key role in delivering the category strategy and seasonal plans to ensure we have a fantastic offering for our customers. Working closely with the Buying Manager, you’ll help drive sales, profit and market share through great product ranges, strong supplier partnerships and seamless execution. We’re looking for a colleague with strong organisational and collaboration skills, along with commercial awareness.
This role is a key part of the buying team, supporting the Buying Manager to source and buy great quality products, giving our customers the best offer, range and prices available.
What is 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.
- Car Cash Allowance.
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
- Private medical insurance.
- Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount.
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
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You will be responsible for
- Supporting your manager with supplier performance, identifying potential new suppliers and building long term supplier relationships.
- Assist in the creation and execution of the category strategy, contributing to clear plans that drive growth and competitiveness across all channels.
- 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.
- Supporting the Supply Chain Plan, helping getting our products in store on time.
- 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
- Buying.
- Range & trade planning.
- Report preparation and analysis.
Operational skills relevant for this job:
- Influencing & negotiation.
- Stakeholder management.
- Supplier management.
- Buying and Range management.
- Trade planning.
- Data analysis.
- Microsoft Excel.
About us
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At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
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