Buying & Supply Chain Assistant - Tesco Hospitality
A fantastic opportunity for Café colleagues has arisen to work within the Hospitality Buying & Supply Chain team as a Buying & Supply Chain Assistant.
Reporting into the Buying & Supply Chain Manager, this head office role will encompass a wide range of buying and supply chain duties including supplier & stock management, new product sourcing, product costing and availability, data and report analysis and responsibility for Café stock availability.
The successful applicant should be organised and a great communicator, with experience in buying and/or supply chain. Experience using Excel is essential as this role will include data analysis and reporting.
This is a full-time role, including 3 days a week at the Tesco Head Office in Welwyn Garden City.
You will be responsible for:
Sourcing new products, ensuring the right product at the right price for our sites & customers.
Working alongside the Food Development team on new menu and product launches.
Maintaining and regularly updating our ingredient catalogue (pricing/ product changes).
Tracking stock levels with suppliers, ensuring product is always available in The Café and The Coffee Shops.
Running cost and availability checks for our expanding Coffee Shop proposition and supporting with deliveries and requests for our site on campus.
Analysing and understanding performance issues, reviewing costs & availability.
Building allocations for new menus and ensuring products land into Cafés and Coffee Shops on time.
Supporting your manager to manage supplier performance and build long term supplier relationships.
Managing the purchasing email inbox, being the first point of contact for Café & Coffee Shop supply issues/ ad hoc requests.
Being a bridge between suppliers and sites, communicating supply issues and helping to find resolutions.
Collaborating with the wider team and assisting with requests from other departments.
You will need:
A passion for hospitality buying
Previous buying and/or supply chain experience
Strong supplier and stakeholder management, with the ability to communicate & influence effectively
Adaptable & resilient, able to perform in a fast paced & continually changing environment
Data analysis
Microsoft Excel
Report preparation and analysis (experience using the Fourth RME system preferred but not essential)
What's in it for you:
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Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
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.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
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.
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 visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility
