Global Sourcing Manager - Home - 11 Month Secondment

Tesco Sourcing has been responsible for sourcing Tesco’s non-food products from across the world since 1977. We deliver fashion and home products with great value in mind for our customers.

Our headquarters are in Hong Kong, and we have hubs based in China (Shanghai), India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Turkey. We also have colleagues based within our offices in the UK and Central Europe, as well as smaller teams in Vietnam, Cambodia and Pakistan.

We are recruiting for a Global Sourcing Manager for Home (11-Month Secondment) based in UK.

About the role

Join our Strategic Sourcing team, part of the wider Non‑Food Sourcing Commercial function, where you’ll play a key role in shaping Tesco’s global supplier partnerships and driving long‑term sourcing excellence. Based in Welwyn Garden City, this team acts as the vital link between UK Buying and our global sourcing hubs, ensuring the products we deliver consistently meet customer expectations on quality, value and responsibility.

Reporting into the Hong Kong–based Head of Strategy, Risk & Assurance, you’ll partner closely with UK category teams to oversee our supply base, provide commercial and analytical insight, and strengthen supply resilience in a rapidly evolving market. You’ll be instrumental in embedding our global sourcing strategy across Home and Clothing, making strong analytical skills, exceptional stakeholder management and deep sourcing expertise essential.

You will be responsible for:

Strategy

• Taking oversight of the overall shape of our supply base across all Home categories

• Facilitating PGRs, supplier categorisation and provoke exploration and solutions to strategic challenges (e.g. contingency risks, regional over-exposure, supplier performance).

• Creating forums and coordinate stakeholders for alignment and decision making on strategic supplier agenda

• Collaborating with Global Sourcing team on strategic change projects, re-source plans and evolution of supplier strategy

Operations

• Implementing & executing delivery of global sourcing tools and processes with UK commercial & country/regional sourcing teams.

• Coordinating and reporting against supply base activity (supplier data, on-boards and exits, supplier roll) and supplier performance.

• Driving continuous improvement of our sourcing processes and how we interact with category teams and our supplier partners

• Supporting & coordinating central supplier activity (e.g. SBR or B4L)

• Co-ordinating & centralising supplier facing engagement/requests across global sourcing teams

Supplier Partnerships

• Coordinating Supplier Scorecard reporting

• Tracking progress against supplier partnership plans

Leadership & Behaviours

• Living our Values & Win Together behaviours

• Managing internal & external stakeholders at all levels, confidently influencing & challenging independently

• Acting with integrity and accountability, following our business code of conduct, upholding standards while taking responsibility for actions and outcomes

• Setting clear and measurable goals, effectively managing performance to deliver the desired outcomes

• Bringing innovative and creative thinking to enhance existing processes and strategies

• Thinking beyond immediate tasks and considers future impacts and opportunities

You will need:

• Experience working in a global or regional sourcing role within an international retail or consumer‑goods organisation

• Knowledge of Home categories and related sourcing routes

• Experience evaluating alternative sourcing countries for specific product types (e.g., capability, capacity, cost structures)

• Strong commercial and analytical capability, with the ability to interpret data, assess risks and provide insight‑driven recommendations

• Experience managing cross‑functional, cross-cultural stakeholders and influencing at different levels, both internally and externally

• Strong problem‑solving skills, with the ability to evaluate options, make sound decisions and identify opportunities for improvement

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex information for different audiences

• High attention to detail, strong numeracy and proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities and deliver at pace in a dynamic environment

Preferred Experience

• Knowledge of emerging sourcing markets, diversification strategies and supplier‑capability mapping

• Experience leading cross‑market projects or working closely with global hubs

What's in it for you:

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Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
Private medical insurance
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