Buying Manger Sliced Cooked Meats, Pate and Deli

We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for a Buying Manager across Sliced Cooked Meats & Pate.

The successful candidate will have accountability for Sliced Cooked Meats & Pate which is a substantial category taking between £10.5m to £11.5m per week and is a critical area for customers' shopping experience. You'll work closely with strategic partners to deliver our ambitions including growing Finest share, growing past our 30% market share & improving the health of the range.

Given the scale and importance of the area, it comes with a lot of exposure as its a key area within MFPE. This role will lead on backwall deli which is an £80m proposition covering a number of areas where you will own the strategy and work closely with peers to grow the prop to over £100m.

You will be responsible for:

Passionate about taking ownership of the category to deliver:

- Market out performance & 30% market share

- Aldi Price Match across key lines

- A credible range that supports volume delivery while manages the mix

- Forecasting & managing profitability across the year

Build strong supplier relationships to deliver:

- great quality, prices and service level on a consistent basis

- Improvements to quality & costs through improvements

Be brave to deliver strategic opportunities by truly understanding our customers & suppliers

- Grow finest across in Aisle and Backwall deli from 20% to 30%

- Improve health of range

- Reduce and potentially remove EAT to be replaced with Core in the APM

- Backwall deli achieves over £100m in sales

You will need:

Strong trading/buying experience
Commercial and strategic thinking
Confidence owning a high-profile category
Proven experience with suppliers and supply chain
Strong influencer across teams and at all levels
Passion for food and the customer
Meat industry experience is a bonus

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What's in it for you:

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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 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.

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NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

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