Technical Manager - Garment - 12 months parental leave cover

We are on the lookout for a Technical Manager to join our Garment team here within our Product Quality Area. You will deliver safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products for your area always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value-led behaviour.

Please note: This is a 12 month Parental Leave Cover.

You will be responsible for:

Ensuring products in my area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief,Tesco rules & policies.
Being the expert in my field, achieving my KPI's and supporting development of policy/protocol in my category.
Minimizing cost and risk throughout the supply chain and product range, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for consistency, legality and quality of products & packaging and signing off products at appropriate milestones.
Ensuring required Due Diligence documents are in place. Ensuring labeling is legal and factually correct.
Monitoring all quality and customer feedback and implementing actions to resolve issues raised.
Management & reduction of customer complaints, incidents (EPWs,recalls) and enforcement challenges in my area.
Inputting & driving product, process and improvement ideas into the New Product Development.
The technical critical path for new products/product changes,working with suppliers/Tesco Sourcing & flagging risks.
Inputting into the strategy with Category teams, identifying and developing the best suppliers & sources.
Ensuring my suppliers have Technical and ethical audits as required, agreeing action plans to drive improvement.
Managing and developing long term partnerships with suppliers, improving processes, quality and value.
Using 3D technology, MPD and our TC training tools to empower our suppliers to develop/approve on our behalf.
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

You will need:

Relevant qualifications with experience delivering safe, legal, responsibly sourced, sustainable, and quality products.
Strong knowledge of legislation, standards, risk assessment, end‑to‑end incident management, and auditing/factory compliance.
Understanding of retail and customer needs, raw materials, and their performance.
Supplier and stakeholder management, alongside solid project management experience.
Competence in PLM, 3D tools, and data analysis.
Proficient in Microsoft Office.

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 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