Supplier Engagement Sustainability Manager

In this role you will work as part of the Supplier Engagement team to build trusted partnerships with suppliers by providing resources and support relating to our Sustainability agenda. You'll be part of a team that is integral in identifying the opportunities that support the launch of new sustainability tools and processes to suppliers, to creating and delivering new learning to help drive the Tesco sustainability strategy with our suppliers.

Reporting into the Supplier Engagement team, you will work alongside the Sustainability team to develop and embed our sustainability programme with our Product Supplier Partners and will have a dotted line into the Head of Environment.

Our success is dependent on our suppliers working with us to deliver a sustainable food system.

The main areas of responsibility include:

• Ensuring that the sustainability agenda (Environment, Human Rights, Waste, Sustainable Agriculture, Human Rights and Health) is implemented with a consistent approach to all UK/ROI Product suppliers - this includes communications, training events (webinars), training resources available, information published on supplier training site and Tesco Supplier Network
• Managing the supplier sustainability events calendar of webinars available to suppliers to support the sustainability agenda
• Organising webinars, including coordinating subject experts, reviewing presentations, ensuring all brand guidelines are met and internal reviews completed, facilitating the webinars Coordinating and manage the suite of sustainability resources available to suppliers on the Tesco Supplier Network and the Supplier training sites; including ensuring all resources meet branding guidelines
• Working closely with the Sustainability Programme Manager to coordinate collaborative sustainability projects with strategic suppliers

• Experience working within a retail/FMCG context
• Experience working on engagement programmes in complex supply chains
• Experience working in sustainability within the supply chain/manufacturing
• Experience with presentations from development stage to delivery
• Experience within a learning role - of identfying requriements and the optimum resources to support customers - Experience of corporate sustainability issues

Operational skills; 

• Experience as a Project Manager
• Experience facilitating and presenting digitally and in person
• Experience identifying requirements and developing learning resources
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent collaboration skills
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Business acumen
• Analytical and strategic thinking
• Flexibility

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 25 days plus a personal day (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.