As Buying Manager for Prepared Veg & DFNS, you will lead a growing convenience market category through insight, innovation, product development, raw material sourcing, supplier capabilities and trade driving to rival not only supermarkets but on the go food outlets.
Accountable for a £340m business spanning all Nuts, Seeds, Dried Fruit, Prepared vegetables, this high priority, must win role blends fast paced commercial delivery with long‑term strategic leadership. You will manage and develop the strategy in collaboration with internal & external partners, shaping the future of emerging trends in healthy, convenient meal solutions and snacking. Alongside ensuring Tesco remains the customer’s first choice for quality, value, and innovation, a critical part of the role is the leadership of our supplier partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Owning the sales, profit and outperformance.
- Delivery of the budget for the area.
- Building a customer focused, long‑term category strategy that delivers sustainable growth for the business & drives market out‑performance.
- Understanding our competitors, physical, online and beyond retail. Develop a market winning plan for customers across the short and long term, driving customer loyalty, quality and innovation ahead of the market.
- Finding, developing and managing both branded & OB suppliers, to deliver our customer propositions and our joint business targets whilst ensuring that product quality is achieved & maintained.
- Use insight tools to analyse and understand performance issues and opportunities, whilst collaborating with supplier expertise.
- Develop and deliver the category strategy, executing a market winning plan.
- Working with suppliers to build a strong Buy/Move/Grow plan that ensures our products are manufactured, moved & sold in the most efficient way possible.
- Effectively curating, executing and delivering market leading sell plans that lead the market, offer our customers a new experience, grow customer numbers, whilst driving forward commercial position.
- Forecasting and managing budgets effectively.
- Delivering quantum profit targets, volume & sales growth and market share targets.
- Always being cost conscious.
- Developing and working in a high performing team, giving them the opportunities to be their best.
- Work cross‑functionally across Product Development, Technical and Supplier Sourcing teams to ensure we have a brilliant and profitable Tesco brand.
Qualifications
- Previous buying experience preferred, ideally as an experienced Buying Manager seeking broader responsibility or accelerated career development.
- Strong negotiation, communication and supplier management skills, with the ability to build effective grower and supplier relationships.
- Experience in category management, cross‑category delivery and end‑to‑end NPD, including raw material sourcing.
- Proven leadership and stakeholder management experience.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
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