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. 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. 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.