Continuous Improvement Manager - Food

Tesco UK; Digswell; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK is seeking a talented individual to join their Sourcing team, focusing on cost model management and end-to-end analysis. The role involves working with supplier partners to improve financial outcomes and requires strong stakeholder engagement and financial competency. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience within Food sector, preferably in manufacturing.
• Ability to interpret financial statements and reports.
• Experience with business improvement techniques.

Responsibilities

• Delivering end to end benefit through cost base programme.
• Supporting product partners in financial improvements.
• Providing oversight on supplier cost base models.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement experience

Financial competency

Analytical software skills

Project management experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Tesco Sourcing team is at the pioneering edge of Sourcing strategy, Cost Modelling, End to End efficiencies and Price Risk Management within the Retail sector.

This role will offer the chance to develop world class cost model management and exposure to industry leading end to end analysis.

This is also a fantastic opportunity to grow in a fast-paced environment, helping reshape the way we work through structured governance and develop our supplier partners!

Responsibilities

• Delivering end to end benefit through our cost base programme reviewing supply chain from Raw Material, Inbound Logistics, Processing and Distribution.
• Supporting and stretching Tesco product partners to support unlocking stretching site financial business improvements, supporting return on investment programmes.
• Providingindependent oversight on supplier cost base models, identifying impacts and P&L drivers.
• Being an active member across the Tesco group, supplying to and drawing from best practice standards to help drive coordinated group-wide performance improvement.
• Supporting our sourcing team and own brand supply strategy decisions as well as buying teams with industry expertise and intelligence on raw materials and industry/supplier cost structures, P&L.
• Preparingperiodic briefings to categories and senior management.
• Participating in cross-functional deep dive projects to drive large scale efficiency across the business.
• Working with our supplier/partner to assess cost drivers, business models and review capacity models – on site and off site at factories and distribution centres.
• Managing of projects holding stakeholders to account regarding critical paths.
• Continuous improvement of our approach and ability to collaborate cross-functions.
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, GSCoP and our Business Code of Conduct, always acting with integrity and due diligence.

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder engagement experience.
• Strong financial competency, understanding and ability to interpret financial statements and reporting.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment, recognised as a world class or lean organisation.
• Experience of delivering results using Business Improvement techniques.
• Experience withinleading teams through business process changes and site improvement plans.
• Skilled in analytical software plus competent user of Microsoft Office suite.
• Proven experienceto be able to deliver training, coach others and facilitate group problem solving sessions.
• Program and project management experience. These may be trained or developed however the ideal candidate would have 5 years experience within Food (Short life).

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