Technologist - Grocery

About the role
This role is a fantastic opportunity to work as a valued colleague in a high performing team within the dynamic grocery category. Working within a well-respected and collaborative Natural Work Team to deliver quality and value, with the support of other grocery technical colleagues.

You will be responsible for
- Ensuring products in area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief, Tesco rules & policies
- Being the expert in your field, achieving KPIs and supporting development of policy/protocol in your category
- Minimising cost and risk throughout the supply chain and product range, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for consistency, legality and quality of products & packaging and signing off products at appropriate milestones
- Ensuring required Due Diligence documents are in place. Ensuring labelling is legal and factually correct
- Monitoring all quality and customer feedback and implementing actions to resolve issues raised
- Management & reduction of customer complaints, incidents (EPWs,recalls) and enforcement challenges in my area
- Inputting product, process and improvement ideas into the New Product Development plan
- The technical critical path for new products/product changes, working with suppliers and flagging risks
- Developing the strategy with Category teams, identifying and developing the best suppliers & sources
- Ensuring suppliers have Technical and ethical audits as required, agreeing action plans to drive improvement
- Managing and developing long term partnerships with suppliers, improving processes, quality and value
- Supporting Suppliers to deliver against our sustainability and health goals
- Working with supplier to understand and address any human rights risks within their supply chains
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will need
- Relevant experience/qualification(s) in food safety /manufacturing.
- Relevant product area knowledge/experience of delivering safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products to the customer
- Knowledge of legislation and technical standards
- Understanding of risk and risk assessment
- Understanding of end to end Incident Management process
- Customer focused
- Strong Initiative with proactive ways of working
- Personable and able build strong relationship and collaborate with all stakeholders and suppliers
- Analytical; able to interpret data and make decisions; even if all facts are not available
- Able to multitask and prioritise effectively
- Agile and open minded in approach
- Work well under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office packages
- Previous relevant experience and a proven, successful track record of delivering safe, legal and ethical products to the customer is essential

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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 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 click here.

What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

- Colleague bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 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 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- 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
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after