Category Insights Assistant - General Merchandise

You will be a key member of the Category Development team, supporting your Category Development Manager by collating insight, preparing and sharing analysis with the General Merchandise Commercial teams to help create winning customer propositions.

You will love working with data and use it to influence decisions. Thus leading to identifying opportunities to enhance Tesco’s proposition.

• Gathering and analysing market, supplier, competitor and customer research from multiple sources to create insight to formulate the General Merchandise Strategy
• Collating data and interpreting/summarising actionable insights into reports, with recommendations, for the GM Teams
• Actively participate in Category Development Projects to support and development of GM Strategy
• Discover and share relevant trends and pertinent information with GM teams
• Visiting Tesco and Competitor stores to review and identify Commercial opportunities
• Bringing data and insight to life for stakeholders through clear and impactful presentations and storytelling
• Maintain Market wide competitor knowledge and provide insight into Threats & Opportunities for Tesco
• Supporting your manager to ensure the smooth day to day running of the department with adhoc task as required
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

• Data analysis and interpretation skills
• Proficient at using systems to extract data and manipulate in excel
• A thorough understanding of commercial and retail processes
• Retail industry background (desirable)
• Experience working with market and insight data agencies (desirable)
• Customer/ market insight compilation
• Communication skills (incl. presentation skills)
• MS Office (skilled in Excel & Powerpoint)
• High level curiosity and drive to understand the (what and the why) from the data.

Key People and Teams you will work with:

• General Merchandise Teams
• Market Data Agencies (e.g. GFK, IRI/ Nielsen data, Kantar and Dunnhumby)

People, Budgets and other Resources you will be accountable for:

• Maintaining documents with updated data from Marketing Agencies
• Keeping Competitor packs up to date with current market information and strategy updates

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme.
• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus 8 Bank holidays).
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution.
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay.
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home.
• 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.

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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.