Lead-Buying Assistant

About the role

To support Tesco Business through providing insights and enabling stakeholders to take decision, streamlining operations, enhance customer experience and add value in form of new projects.

You will be responsible for

• Represent Talent Acquisition in all forums/ seminars pertaining to process, compliance and audit
• Perform other miscellaneous duties as required by management
• Driving CI culture, implementing CI projects and innovation for withing the team
• Develop various Business reports for the Heads of Buying to show progress on upcoming launches by providing insights which in turn helps them make better decisions for a successful product/promotion launch
• Responsible for spotting the various risk factors, potential delays and working with manager to escalate priorities and bring solutions to closure enabling the product availability at stores
• Executing plans to address the dynamic, challenging business needs and market conditions with respect to Spot Buys, last minute supplier changes, dual sourced products, Change in trade regulations or policies
• Responsible for successfully managing all range changes, product setup and amends,off-fixture display, promotions, costs, supply chain and invoicing by tracking performance and owning the end to end journey of a product right from the range sign off until its exit
• Building and developing strong working relationship with Buying Managers, Supply Chain, International Hubs, Central operations team, Trade planning, Merchandise planning, Suppliers and Supplier Induction team in Finance to support and deliver action plans for a successful launches and further maintenance
• Responsible for reporting out critical path and category performance

You will need

Any graduate with Buying/Merchandising experience would be prefferred.

Advanced Excel, Business Reporting, Planning & Organizing, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Prioritizing, Process Coaching, Analyses & Judgment, Excellent Stakeholder Management, Excellent Verbal & Written Communication

Whats in it for you?

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you.

As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.

Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles - simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable.

Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment.

Performance Bonus - Opportunity to earn additional compensation bonus based on performance, paid annually

Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company's policy.

Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF.

Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws.

Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.

Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.

Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.

Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle.

About Us

Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers.

Tesco in 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 3,30,000 colleagues.

Tesco Business Solutions:

Established in 2017, Tesco Business Solutions (TBS) has evolved from a single entity traditional shared services in Bengaluru, India (from 2004) to a global, purpose-driven solutions-focused organisation. TBS is committed to driving scale at speed and delivering value to the Tesco Group through the power of decision science. With over 4,400 highly skilled colleagues globally, TBS supports markets and business units across four locations in the UK, India, Hungary, and the Republic of Ireland. The organisation underpins everything that the Tesco Group does, bringing innovation, a solutions mindset, and agility to its operations and support functions, building winning partnerships across the business. TBS's focus is on adding value and creating impactful outcomes that shape the future of the business. TBS creates a sustainable competitive advantage for the Tesco Group by becoming the partner of choice for talent, transformation, and value creation