Head of Marketplace Seller Partnerships

7 months ago


Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom Tesco Full time

About the role
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:

- Leading a team of experts who are accountable for managing seller partnerships, the relationships and ensuring we achieve the agreed commercial outcomes.
- Working alongside the Tesco Commercial colleagues to develop and execute category level strategies.
- Establishing effective ways of working with the Seller Acquisition team and Tesco Commercial teams.
- Building, managing and growing the capability of a team of Seller Partners.
- Ensuring there is a long term customer led plan, which drives customer loyalty.
- Solving seller queries and disputes, including identifying key issues and developing effective solutions
- Delivering budget, by monitoring and driving partner performance, managing bad debt and providing accurate forecasts, always being cost conscious
- Effectively using insight to understand customer needs, market trends and competitor activity to identify opportunities
- Managing partner performance, supporting them to build long term partner relationships with us through both strategy and growth
- Enabling my team to negotiate commercial agreements with partners, ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, and leading a culture of compliance within my team
- Actively developing improvement of our processes, operations and methodology
- Leading an agile business squad, supporting with the adoption of agile ways of working and providing clarity through OKRs
- Developing and leading a high performing team, giving them opportunities to be their best
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will be responsible for
**Operational skills relevant for this job**:

- Understanding of Online business models and economics
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding
- Ability to pitch to sellers & negotiate commercial terms
- Strong programme and project management skills
- Ability to bridge between strategic thinking and pragmatic implementation
- Strong analytical skills to assess and model seller proposals
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Strong communication and storytelling skills
- Ability to influence at all levels

**Experience relevant for this job**:

- Experience operating in a commercial, retail environment (preference for experience working with external suppliers)
- Experience working in e-commerce
- Account management experience
- Record of effective joint business planning, programme management and delivery of cross-functional initiatives
- Strategy formulation, business development, corporate development in Online / Retail context

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:

- Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
- Car allowance of £7,320 per annum
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Private medical insurance
- Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
- 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 3 months of service), giving you access t



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