Marketplace Risk Technologist

4 weeks ago


Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom Tesco Full time

About the role
We are looking for a Marketplace Technologist to join our Quality team.
You will work closely with our Marketplace onboarding team to ensure sellers are fully vetted and any product listings are safe, legal and compliant.

You will be responsible for
- Ensure that all products sold on our marketplace comply with relevant laws and regulations related to supplier and retail quality, safety, environment and legality.
- Develop and implement technical compliance policies and procedures related to supplier and retail quality, safety, and legality.
- Collect and verify information from third-party sellers who want to join our marketplace platform
- Risk assess products and introduce more due diligence for high-risk products, such as electrical, food, or health-related items
- Manage seller on-boarding checks and product induction, ensuring that sellers meet the technical and legal requirements to sell on our platform
- Ensure relevant Tesco policies are met, such as product safety, sustainability, and ethical sourcing
- Brand risk assessment of minor brands, ensuring that they do damage Tesco's reputation
- Corrective actions and improvements to be made to due diligence before launch, ensuring that any issues or gaps are resolved in a timely manner
- Ensure quality of new product listings, checking that they have accurate and complete information, images, and descriptions
- Liaise with strategic sellers on broader policies and strategic priorities, providing feedback and guidance on how to improve their performance and compliance

You will need
- Strong knowledge of relevant UK and EU laws and regulations related to supplier and retail quality, safety, and legality.
- Relevant knowledge/experience of delivering safe, legal and responsibly sourced, great quality products to our customers.
- Experience in Product technical compliance, quality assurance, or risk management
- Desirable Knowledge of e-commerce, marketplace, or retail industry
- Familiarity with Tesco's policies and standards, or ability to learn quickly
- Extensive knowledge of legislation and technical standards relating to food and non food areas
- Understanding of retail and customer needs

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 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues



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