Tesco India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Hybrid Full-Time Permanent Apply by 11-Sep-2025
About the role
This role is accountable for planning and designing Tesco stores, with the goal of elevating the Tesco brand and enhancing the overall customer experience. It holds a crucial responsibility in implementing business strategy and making important decisions throughout the store development process. This role combines retail planning expertise with architectural and project management skills.
What is in it for you
At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you.
As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.
Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.
Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles - simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable.
Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment.
Performance Bonus - Opportunity to earn additional compensation bonus based on performance, paid annually
Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy.
Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF.
Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws.
Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.
Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.
Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.
Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle.
You will be responsible for
Store Layout & Design Implementation:
- Accountable to manage store feasibility planning, detail store layouts, project initiatives and design implementation packs from initial development to the creation of the as-built drawing stage as per Store Development Programme
- Accountable to deliver Planning applications packs and liaising with Country colleagues to track the progress and closure of council approval
- -Interpreting architectural and construction drawings to provide a comprehensive store planning solution
- Guide and manage team to provide store layouts and design implementation pack that align with property strategy, offer great customer, and colleague experience, deliver to our financial targets, and have minimal disruption and in line with legal requirements
- Ability to offer a range of solutions, while considering available data and making well-informed decisions to finalize plans and design proposals for approval
- Collaborate closely with business owners, property project managers (PPM), external property project managers (EPM), the Health & Safety team, merchandising team, all planning teams to gather and capture all scope of work from various departments.
- Assist project managers in executing plans and designs based on proposals and address any inquiries related to the proposals
- Manage all store data records, ensuring its accuracy and integrity through regular updates
- Allocate workload to the team and optimize their efficiency through effective time management, leave planning and capacity forecasting
- Identify and highlight potential risks, recommending mitigating strategies to ensure successful outcomes.
Plan & Design Approvals: Seek timely plan approval from property leaders as per development program and manage design approval process
KPI & Compliance: Establish and drive the quality processes, performance evaluations, and compliance standards. Ensure the delivery of team KPI’s and drive a culture of excellence. Keep yourself and team up-to-date with the latest retail market trends and technology
Team & Self Development: Drive continuous improvement culture and innovation. Build capability within the team by provide guidance, coaching, and technical training
One-team Mindset: Build and maintain positive relationship across teams through regular engagement and celebrating achievements. Foster a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment
Business Accountabilities: Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence. Responsible for completing tasks within agreed KPI's
You will need
Preferred Diploma/ Bachelor’s degree in Architecture/ Interior Design/ Bachelor’s in Engineering (Civil) 10+ years of experience in relevant field preferred
Must have experience in delivering planning and design for Retail Projects
Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English
Proficient in leading and managing a team
Must be proficient in AutoCAD, Revit, MS Office and Adobe software’s
About us
Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers.
Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues.
Tesco Business Solutions:
Established in 2017, Tesco Business Solutions (TBS) has evolved from a single entity traditional shared services in Bengaluru, India (from 2004) to a global, purpose-driven solutions-focused organisation. TBS is committed to driving scale at speed and delivering value to the Tesco Group through the power of decision science. With over 4,400 highly skilled colleagues globally, TBS supports markets and business units across four locations in the UK, India, Hungary, and the Republic of Ireland. The organisation underpins everything that the Tesco Group does, bringing innovation, a solutions mindset, and agility to its operations and support functions, building winning partnerships across the business. TBS's focus is on adding value and creating impactful outcomes that shape the future of the business. TBS creates a sustainable competitive advantage for the Tesco Group by becoming the partner of choice for talent, transformation, and value creation.