Buying Assistant for Electrical Accessories - 12 Parental Leave Cover

We’ve got an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Assistant Buyer. In this role, you’ll play a key part in shaping ranges, building supplier relationships, and making sure our customers get the products they love.

From spotting new suppliers and negotiating deals, to reviewing customer insights and driving product innovation, you’ll be hands‑on across every stage of the buying process. You’ll also support promotions, events, and supply chain activity - helping us deliver quality products, on time, in every channel.

You will be responsible for:

Supporting my manager to manage supplier performance, identifying potential new suppliers and supporting to build long term supplier relationships
Providing support to ensure my category has a long term, customer led plan which drives loyalty
Conducting regular store/website visits and reviewing customer insight and trends, helping shape our future product and range requirements for our customers
Helping to build and source customer/market insight led ranges and product innovation
Negotiating with suppliers with support from my manager, improving the trading position in a sustainable way
Supporting delivery of my department’s trade, promotions/marketing and events plan, striving to exceed KPI forecasts and drive footfall
Supporting Tesco Business Services and Supply Chain, helping getting our products in all channels on time
Working with suppliers and the category quality team to ensure product quality is achieved and maintained
Loading Commercial Income and ensuring our suppliers are invoiced correctly, managing over-charge, under-charges and aged debt on a weekly basis
Briefing, developing and managing all artwork and POS
Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all my training
Manage GHS set up

You will need:

Operational skills & experience relevant for this job:

Influencing & negotiation
Stakeholder management
Supplier management
Buying and Range management
Trade planning
Data analysis
Microsoft Office
Clear presentation skills

What's in it for you:

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About us:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility