Senior Associate - Assistant Buyer

3 - 8 years

2 - 6 Lacs

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Job Description

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.
 

Job Summary:


This role would be an extended support for the Buying teams in the country, helping them execute and drive processes relating to product life cycle including Product ranging, Induction, Cost, Retail and Promotions by interacting with Suppliers and other teams in Tesco.

In this job, I m accountable for:


Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:
- Understands business needs and in depth understanding of Tesco processes
- Assisting with the annual Supply Base Evaluation process review to improve the Buy Plan and provide greater value
- Ensuring all Cost, Retail & Promotion requests are documented to support the category Buying Manager in their negotiations with supplier
- Working with the Supply chain and Trade planning teams to deliver great availability of all our products across all stores
- Liaising with Suppliers and technology teams to facilitate the induction of new products and new suppliers
- Supporting the category Range Changes in executing as per plan
- Build and maintain great relationships with our Suppliers and Stakeholders
- Ensure all Retros are raised and recovered on time
- Ensure all the Business reports are prepared accurately and shared with Buying Manager and Trade planning team
- Perform other miscellaneous duties as required by the category Buying Managers
- Promoting CI culture, carrying out CI projects, and encouraging innovation within the team
Key people and teams I work with in and outside of Tesco:

People, budgets and other resources I am accountable forin my job:

- Buying Categories
- Range Critical Path
- Suppliers
- Promotional Critical Path
- Supply chain & Distribution teams
- Cost Price Tracking
- Technical teams
- Promotional Plan
- Retail Support and Operations teams
- Product Finance teams
- Brand & Marketing teams
Operational skills relevant for this job:
Experience relevant for this job:
- Excellent analytical skills
Experience in Commercial buying operations to be aware of
- Excellent Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint skills
Cost, Retail & Promotion mechanism
- Stakeholder & Supplier management
- Ability to make decisions under pressure
- Excellent communication skills
- Problem Solving

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