Associate - Fulfilment Planner

**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 Solutions, 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 services 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.

In this role you will be responsible for accurate planning of Equipments, Fuel and Transport for all Tesco DC's in the UK to ensure Distribution Network is efficient and stock reach the store on time. Fulfiment Planning Associate will play a pivotal role in optimizing complex equipment, fuel and transport process to ensure cost benefits, waste elimination through high level of resilience and responsiveness.

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:

- Responsible for completing tasks and transactions within agreed KPI' s
- Knows and applies fundamental work theories/concepts/processes in own areas of work
- Develop, monitor and adjust planning parameters to improve planning systems and supply chain network
- Analyse store sales, stock inventory and historic events to plan transport for best outcome of resource planning in the DC to deliver stock to stores on time. Manage trunking and Internal Warehouse transfers between DCs for smooth movment of stock
- Maintain all equipment types used within the distribution network to ensure depots and suppliers have the right equipment all the time through effective forecasting and solutions
- Work closely with Commercial teams to facilitate the increased use of trays and other loose equipment within all UK DCs
- Responsible for creating the daily fuel delivery schedules for all Tesco Petrol Filling Stations (PFS) and Distribution Centres in the UK
- Produce transport plans to schedule collections from fuel terminals and deliveries to our PFS, depots and customer fulfilment centres
- Solve complex problems related to equipment, transport and fuel planning processes, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions for better cost and budget management
- Collaborate with the national planning, suppliers and transport planning teams to align equipment, resource and fuel requirements to optimize routes, and ensure timely deliveries
- Safeguard company assets and maintain trust with stakeholders by implementing strong internal controls and risk mitigation strategies
- Identify process gaps and develop mitigation plans to address potential risks and improve overall effectiveness
- Build strong relationship with Transport, National, Network Planning team and Suppliers in the UK

**Qualifications**
- Graduate experience in area of warehouse, transport and network planning field
- Specialization in Supply chain and lo