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Technologist – Beauty & Personal Care (8 month Fixed Term Contract)
Job Reference: tesco/TP/8568366/922850
Number of Positions: 1
Contract Type: Fixed Term, 8 months
Location: Shire Park, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Closing Date: 05/01/2025
Job Category: Product Quality & Technical
Business Unit: GB Head Office
What’s 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.
* 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; we also offer 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
About the role
An exciting opportunity to join the Tesco Non-Food Technical Team working as a technologist within our Beauty & Personal Care category. Supported by the Beauty and Personal Care Technical Manager, you will be the go-to person within your natural work team responsible for the delivery of safe, legal and responsibly sourced product under the Tesco brand.
This role is perfect for someone with a science degree or equivalent looking for a role in retail technical management. It provides a great opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge across a broad range of products from handwash to cotton buds!
You will be responsible for
* Ensuring products in area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief, Tesco rules & policies
* Becoming the expert in your field, supporting development of policies and protocols in your area of work
* Minimising cost and risk throughout the supply chain, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for safety, legal and quality standards
* Monitoring all quality and customer feedback, implementing actions to resolve issues raised
* Feeding into discussions around product and process improvements
* Managing the technical critical path for new products/product changes
* Identifying and developing the best suppliers in the industry
* Ensuring suppliers have their ethical audits as required and working with the supply base to agree action plans to drive improvement
* Supporting Suppliers to deliver against our sustainability and health goals
* Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
* Acting as a Tesco representative visiting suppliers and sites (travel around UK and EU)
You will need
* A degree or equivalent qualification in a science subject
* Strong initiative with proactive ways of working
* Personable and able to build strong relationships and collaborate with all stakeholders and suppliers
* Analytical; able to interpret data and make decisions even if all facts are not available
* Able to multitask and prioritise effectively
* Agile and open-minded in approach
* Work well under pressure and to tight deadlines
* Proficient use of Microsoft Office packages
About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.
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