Promotions and Events Manager - 6 Month Parental Leave Cover

As a Promotions & Events Manager, you will play a key role in planning and forecasting promotional, seasonal and event activity to ensure our stores receive the right stock at the right time. Working collaboratively with Category Buying, Supply Chain, Feature Space Planning and supplier partners, you will build accurate promotion plans, manage risk, and help deliver great availability for customers.

You’ll monitor performance across the end‑to‑end supply chain, resolving supply issues, balancing stock levels, and ensuring promotional volumes flow smoothly from supplier to depot and into stores. Using strong analytical skills and a confident, collaborative approach, you’ll turn commercial plans into operational reality while supporting delivery of availability, overstock and service targets.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys data‑led decision making, cross‑functional teamwork, and shaping how our promotional activity lands for customers across the business.

You will be responsible for:

Forecasting and planning future promotions, seasonal activity and events in my category to ensure overstock/ overhang targets are met, working with suppliers and Category Buying teams.
Working with Category Buying teams and Feature Space Planning teams to build promotion plans, ensuring they are available to the Promotions Forecasting and Procurement teams and visible on replenishment systems in a timely manner.
Reviewing promotion availability, working with the the Category Supply Chain Manager, Supply Chain Manager.
Supplier Collaboration and Category Buying teams to resolve issues arising from limited supply.
Working collaboratively with teams across Forecast & Ordering, Network Planning and Feature Space Planning to manage volumes from depot to store, meeting store service level targets to achieve effective replenishment.
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

You will need:

An understanding of the E2E movement of product through to the shelf edge.
Understanding of store routines.
Forecasting/Planning experience.
Understanding of Supplier supply chain - Tesco ordering systems: CR, LM, Promotions System, Denver, CRST, NBS, MM.
Data Analysis experience.
Previous Stakeholder Management experience.

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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.

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