We have a fantastic opportunity within our F&F team for an Assistant Technologist responsible for Fabric to join our team You will deliver and support safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality fabrics for your area always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value-led behaviour. Supporting the Technical Manager and category to ensure that products not only meet customer expectations but are legal, safe, responsibly, and sustainably sourced to meet our policies and commitments. Working with raw material teams and suppliers on upstream transparency and mill management through fabric key performance indicators (KPIs). Raw Material Management on KPI System, reporting analysis and actioning follow up on compliance gaps. Supporting fabric team to maintain core fabrics and base approval process, including management of physical library. Involvement in product benchmarking to analysis raw material quality against competitor and collate details for presenting to the wider team. Escalating and gathering data to support Incident management and quality performance issues. Creating case studies from incidents. Conducting spot checks across suppliers and systems to ensure data compliance and propose actions on gaps identified. Working with internal and external teams to proactively support colour empowerment program and ways of working Coordinating and monitoring use of Tesco core colour standards and ensuring consistency in product across suppliers. Assisting fabric team to ensure suppliers have completed relevant training, maintaining certification program requirements. Developing expertise in all areas of textiles and mill process. Supporting the team and category in researching and presenting innovation in fibre, fabric, and finishes. Adhoc management of purchase orders, supplier updates and communication, fabric team events etc. Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence Operational Skills: Computer literate in Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Comfortable exploring existing and new databases Analytical and data driven to support upstream raw material transparency and mill management Good communication skills Experience in stakeholder and supplier management Experience: Degree in textiles and industry experience beneficial, however a recent graduate would be considered Understanding of fibre, yarns and fabric construction, fabric dyeing, printing and finishing processes Passion for product, sustainability and circularity Useful but not essential: Quality control / assurance experience Testing / laboratory experience Understanding of retail and customer needs LI-DS1 LI-Hybrid