Overview
At Tesco, we believe in spending more time together, face to face, than apart. During your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We welcome conversations about flexible working throughout your application process.
We are recruiting ambitious and hardworking Assistant Buyers to join our Home and Clothing (F&F) teams. As an Assistant Buyer, you will work with a Buying Manager to help plan and deliver the most commercial and profitable ranges to meet our customers’ needs. These roles would suit someone who is already an established Assistant Buyer looking for a new challenge.
Responsibilities
* Helping to build and source customer/market insight led ranges and product innovation.
* Supporting the manager to manage supplier performance.
* Leading product setup within Tesco proprietary systems ready for sale.
* Identifying potential new suppliers and supporting to build long term supplier relationships.
* Providing support to ensure the category has a long term, customer led plan which drives loyalty.
* Conducting regular store and website visits and reviewing customer insight and trends to shape future product and range requirements.
* Negotiating with suppliers with support from the manager to improve the trading position in a sustainable way.
* Supporting delivery of the department’s trade, promotions/marketing and events plan, aiming to exceed KPI forecasts and drive footfall.
* Supporting Tesco Business Services and Supply Chain to get products in all channels on time.
* Working with suppliers and the category quality team to ensure product quality is achieved and maintained.
* Loading Commercial Income and ensuring suppliers are invoiced correctly, managing over-charge, under-charges and aged debt on a weekly basis.
* Briefing, developing and managing all artwork and POS.
* Adhering to Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all training.
* Manage GHS setup.
Qualifications and Skills
* Influencing and negotiation.
* Stakeholder management.
* Supplier management.
* Buying and range management.
* Trade planning.
* Data analysis.
* Microsoft Office.
* Retail maths knowledge.
* Clear presentation skills.
Additional Information
We are a Disability Confident Leader and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, please note that we welcome conversations about accommodation needs during the process. If you are interested in joining our team but don’t tick every box, don’t let that hold you back from applying.
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