Associate - Buying Assistant

**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.

To support UK/ CE/ ROI Tesco Buyers through timely and accurate product setups across all different Tesco systems by partnering with suppliers and hubs. Ensuring risks are identified in advance and mitigated.
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
- Responsible to track and own end to end journey of a product setup right after the range sign off until the products are ordered for the launches, this includes teams like Buying, Supply Chain, International Hubs, Central operations team, Trade planning, Merchandise planning, Suppliers and Supplier Induction team in Finance
- Provide clear actionable insights to the buyers on the range launches which in turn helps them make decisions for a successful product launch
- Partnering with suppliers and hubs to gather all product details required to enable the overall setup of products in Tesco's systems and flag any issues that might lead to delays of a product launch
- Responsible for accurate range plan maintenance to enable buyers for effective range building and reporting helping buyers with better planning for new range building
- Build and develop strong working relationship with Buyers, Suppliers, Hubs and wider Commercial teams to support and deliver on subcategory plans for their respective launches
- Identifying opportunities for process improvement and efficiency in data analysis and reporting

**Qualifications**
- Any graduate with Buying/Merchandising experience would be preferred
- Intermediate Excel, Eye for Detail, Speed & Accuracy, Logical Reasoning, Analytical Ability, Numeracy Skills, Stakeholder management, Proficient Written and Verbal Communication Skills

**Additional Information**
Application Last Date: 06-March-2025

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