Associate - Merchandising

Company Description

Tesco Bengaluru
We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
At Tesco Business Services, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best in class intelligent Business Services model. We do this by building a world class business services model by executing service model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone?s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues ? who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

**Job Description**:

- Responsible for completing tasks and transactions within agreed KPI's
- Knows and applies fundamental work theories/concepts/processes in own areas of work
- Responsible for liaising with the Merchandising managers and raising the Order confirmations based on negotiations and initiate them with the suppliers
- Follow-up and chase suppliers for the confirmed Orders to avoid delays and enabling raising of on time POs
- Validate the discrepancies between Tesco agreements and supplier responses on the Order confirmation sheet and investigate further in partnership with the Merchandising managers
- Responsible for uploading order confirmations and exporting Purchase orders into various Tesco systems and also investigate PO failures and drive on time resolution
- Responsible for tracking the Purchase orders and work with suppliers Merchandising managers and system support teams
- Assist Merchandising Managers with data and insights around the purchase orders raised and their statuses to enable them with effective stock planning
- Accept/Approve Purchase orders with discrepancies in consultation with the Merchandising managers

**Qualifications**:
Planning and Organizing Collaborating & Partnering Ownership & Accountability Logical Reasoning Analytical Ability Analyses and Judgement Numeracy Skills Stakeholder management and Proficient Written and Verbal Communication Skills

Additional Information

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Accordingly, please check the authenticity of any such offers before acting on them and where acted upon, you do so at your own risk. Tesco Bengaluru shall neither be responsible for honouring or making good the promises made by fraudulent third parties, nor for any monetary or any other loss incurred by the aggrieved individual or educational institution.