Tesco UK – Shire Park, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire – Permanent – Apply by 17-May-2026
We are on the lookout for a Technologist to join our Prepared Food team within our Quality function here at Tesco. You will deliver and support safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products for this area, always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value‑led behaviour.
What is in it for you
* 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 year's service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, and 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
Responsibilities
* Supporting the Technical Manager (TM) and category to ensure that products in the area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief, Tesco rules & policies and customer expectations.
* Developing expertise in the field, achieving KPIs and supporting development of policy/protocol in the category.
* Working with the 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 and 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 the 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 suppliers have appropriate Technical & ethical audits, & agreed action plans for improvement.
* Supporting the TM and category to monitor supplier and product performance, communicating trends to the team.
* Following the Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.
Qualifications
* Relevant experience or qualification(s) in a related area.
* Quality control / assurance skills.
* Understanding of retail and customer needs.
* Passion for product.
* Data analysis.
* Microsoft Excel proficiency.
* Stakeholder management.
* Project management.
* Supplier management.
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