You willsource and buy great quality products, giving our customers the best offer, range and prices available.

- Ensuring yourbuying area has a long term customer led plan, which drives customer loyalty. You willuse insight tools to analyse and understand performance issues and opportunities. You willdevelop plans to deliver category strategy.
- Supporting yourdepartments range strategy to implement a customer focused range which delivers financial KPIs. Source innovative product to deliver insight led ranges across channels, regions & affluence levels to support the category strategy.
- You will build & manage supplier relationships through a supplier strategy to develop a market leading buy, move and sell plan aligned to the customer plan and category strategy. Identifying and assessing new suppliers to deliver market leading product innovation.
- Supporting yourdepartments sell plan to deliver trade, promotions, events exceeding KPI forecasts and drive footfall.
- Delivering yourteams sales and quantum profit budget, market share and out-performance targets. Negotiate with supplier partners to deliver market leading product costs and investment in-line with Tesco Buying model.
-- Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all my training so that youhave zero GSCOP breaches. Ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt, and leading a culture of compliance within yourteam.
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

Key Teams And People You Will Be Working With

- New Product Development and Technical teams
- Selling Team
- Supply Chain, Retail Support and Operations teams
- Product Finance teams
- Supplier Partners, Product Capability & Commodities

People, Resources And Budgets You Will Be Accountable For

- Area sales, volume and rate budgets
- Area quantum profit budget
- Area market out performance (value, volume & share)

Operational Skills Relevant For The Role

- Influencing and negotiation
- Stakeholder Management
- Supplier Management
- Buying management
- Data Analysis
- Microsoft Excel
- Supplier economics

Experience Relevant For The Role

- Commercial buying experience
- Range and trade planning
- Leading and developing teams
- Report preparation and analysis