Partnerships Business Manager - Home and Clothing

We are on the lookout for a Partnerships Business Manager to join our Home and Clothing team. This role will manage the key strategic partnerships for Home & Clothing, supporting the long-term strategy, through driving sales and profit growth and overseeing operational delivery. The role involves cross-functional collaboration, team management, performance tracking and strategic planning.

Reporting to the Head of Strategy & Partnerships, you will work across our Home & Clothing partners, leading the assessment of new partners, delivery, as well as the day-to-day management, supporting and influencing longer term partnership strategy. Specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business but below are some of the key responsibilities.

You will be responsible for:

Cultivating strong relationships with partners, acting as a primary point of contact, ensuring clear communication, effective ways of working, regular performance reviews and future planning sessions across the Group.
Influencing partners to deliver strategic and commercial initiatives to grow revenue. Overseeing implementation, analysing performance and identifying areas of risks and opportunities.
Work cross-functionally with internal teams (e.g. Property, Finance, Tech, and Marketing) to ensure H&C partners strategies are executed. Building cross functional relationships to establish and embed ways of working.
Communicating partnership performance, plans and updates to internal stakeholders. Representing partnership interests and priorities across internal forums, balancing partner needs with business requirements.
Collaborate with H&C leadership in the assessment of business development opportunities relating to new partnerships, including leading the management of delivery.

You will need:

You’ll need to demonstrate extensive experience of:

Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication & presentation skills to all levels of seniority & disciplines within the organisation.
Excellent stakeholder management, influencing & negotiating skills.
Customer, commercial and critical thinking.
Highly experienced merchandiser with detailed knowledge of budgeting & planning processes within a large corporate framework.
Highly organised & with the ability to simplify complex topics and work with large amounts of data.

Personal

Enjoys working across functions and with external partners.
Self-motivated with the ability to work with limited supervision.
Resilient with a positive approach to change and experience of resolution management.
Pro-active with a passion for learning and an openness to new ideas and thinking.
Ability to embrace uncertainty, relishing the opportunity to bring clarity where none exists.
Flexibility, ability to plan & organise, responsiveness, creative, self-starter.

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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.

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