Assistant Buyer - Fresh and Packaged Food

Tesco Hungary; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Tesco as an Assistant Buyer in a dynamic Food team where your role will directly impact supplier relationships and product innovation within Fresh & Packaged categories. With excellent training and a collaborative work environment, you'll help shape market-leading ranges and customer offerings.

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced retail or FMCG is preferred.
• Buying and range planning experience is desirable.
• Ability to prepare and analyze reports.

Responsibilities

• Support manager in supplier performance and relationships.
• Use insights to analyze performance and trends.
• Negotiate with suppliers and manage product quality.

Skills

Negotiating

Stakeholder management

Supplier management

Data analysis

Influencing

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for ambitious and hard-working Assistant Buyers to join our dynamic Food team here at Tesco. Tesco is a leading multinational retailer and as an Assistant Buyer at Tesco, you will play a huge role within the team.

Within Fresh & Packaged Food categories vary & could include Fresh Meat, Pet, Household, Beauty, Bakery, Hot Beverages, Snacks. You will be working in a fast-paced, rewarding environment with a dynamic & hardworking team & we will provide you with excellent training & development throughout your buying journey with us!

We responsibly source and buy great quality products that allow us to give our customers the best offers, range, quality and price. In recent months & in response to a shift in customer shopping habits we have increased capacity from 600,000 online delivery slots to over 1.5 million a week - whichever area of Commercial Product you join, your work has the potential to positively affect the lives of millions of Tesco customers every week.

• Supporting your manager to manage supplier performance, identifying potential new suppliers and supporting to build long term supplier relationships
• Using insight tools to analyse and understand performance issues and opportunities.
• Conducting regular store/website visits and reviewing customer insight and food trends, helping shape our future product and range requirements for our customers
• Helping to build and source customer/market insight led ranges and product innovation
• Negotiating with suppliers to agree and deliver market leading buy/move/sell plans for the areas aligned to the customer plan & category strategy with support from your manager
• Supporting delivery of trade, promotions & events plan, striving to exceed KPIs, drive footfall and forecast accurately
• Supporting the Supply Chain Plan, helping getting our products in store on time
• Working with suppliers and the category quality team to ensure product quality is achieved and maintained
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all your training
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

Experience:

• A passion for fast pacedretail or experience of working in an FMCG organisation
• Buying (preferred)
• Range & trade planning
• Report preparation and analysis

Operational skills:

• Influencing & negotiation
• Stakeholder management
• Supplier management
• Buying and Range management
• Trade planning
• Data analysis
• Microsoft Excel

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