Buying Manager - Sparkling and Champagne - Welwyn Garden City

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. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ 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

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

A fantastic opportunity to join the Wine buying team and work with our suppliers around the world to bring exciting products to Tesco customers. In this role you will work closely with our Product developers to identify opportunities with both Branded and Own label suppliers, build exciting trade events for customers and support the Tesco group strategy.

Wine experience is not essential, however we are looking for a brilliant buyer with drive and passion for product.

You will be responsible for

• Ensuring my buying area has a long term customer led plan, which drives customer loyalty. I use insight tools to analyse and understand performance issues and opportunities. I develop plans to deliver category strategy.
• Supporting my departments range strategy to implement a customer focused range which delivers financial KPIs. Source innovative product to deliver insight led ranges across channels, regions & affluence levels to support the category strategy.
• Build & manage supplier relationships through a supplier strategy to develop a market leading buy, move and sell plan aligned to the customer plan and category strategy.
• Identifying and assessing new suppliers to deliver market leading product innovation.
• Optimise and develop exciting trade plans, promotions, events exceeding KPI forecasts and drive footfall.
• Deliver sales and quantum profit budget, market share and out-performance targets. Negotiate with supplier partners to deliver market leading product costs and investment in-line with Tesco Buying model.
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all my training so that I have zero GSCOP breaches. Ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt, and leading a culture of compliance within my team.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will need

• Commercial buying experience
• Range and trade planning
• Leading and developing teams
• Report preparation and analysis

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. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

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.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.