We are on the lookout for a Technical Manager to join our Quality Fabric Team here at Tesco. You will deliver safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality fabrics for your area always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value‑led behaviour.
Responsibilities
- Lead all fabric‑related activity across reporting and quality in relevant categories, ensuring products meet customer expectations and are safe, legal, responsibly and sustainably sourced.
- Assess risks in new developments (e.g. recyclability, durability, customer performance) and provide clear, commercially relevant recommendations.
- Lead textile to textile circularity work.
- Partner with regional raw material teams and suppliers to drive upstream transparency and strong mill management through defined fabric KPIs.
- Own raw material KPIs, including system governance, data accuracy, reporting and driving corrective actions where required.
- Manage fabric libraries and base approvals, ensuring consistent standards for handle, print and overall quality.
- Lead product benchmarking, analysing competitor performance and translating insights into clear actions.
- Conduct supplier and system spot checks to validate compliance and data accuracy, identifying risks and ensuring resolution.
- Work cross‑functionally to support key programmes (e.g. colour empowerment) and embed consistent ways of working.
- Build and maintain strong supplier partnerships to improve quality, consistency and efficiency.
- Lead policy updates and training to ensure supplier compliance and certification requirements are maintained.
- Support and embed Connected and data‑driven ways of working, ensuring accurate capture of fabric and supply chain data within systems.
- Strengthen audit trail and data integrity across raw materials, ensuring alignment between system data and physical product.
- Act in line with the Tesco Business Code of Conduct, demonstrating integrity at all times.
Qualifications
- Relevant qualifications in textiles, with years of industry experience.
- Understanding of fibre, yarns and fabric construction, fabric dyeing, printing and finishing processes.
- Passion for product, sustainability and circularity.
- Computer literate in Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Comfortable exploring existing and new databases.
- Good communication skills.
- Testing / laboratory experience.
- Experience in stakeholder and supplier management.
- Understanding of retail and customer needs.
