Technical Manager - Clothing - F&F - 12 Month Parental Leave Cover

We have a great opportunity for an experienced Technical Manager to join the F&F team on a 12 month fixed term contract. You will deliver safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products for your area always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value-led behaviour. If you are looking for your next stretch opportunity and have a strong Technical Background in either womenswear, menswear or kidswear - then we want to hear from you!

• Ensuring products in your area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief, Tesco rules & policies
• Being the expert in your field, achieving KPI's and supporting development of policy/protocol in your category
• Minimizing 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 your area
• Inputting & driving product, process and improvement ideas into the New Product Development.
• The technical critical path for new products/product changes, working with suppliers/Tesco Sourcing & flagging risks
• Inputting into the strategy with Category teams, identifying and developing the best suppliers & sources
• Ensuring your 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
• Using 3D technology, MPD and our TC training tools to empower our suppliers to develop/approve on our behalf.
• Developing direct report(s), escalating specific issues, giving them the opportunities to be their best
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

Operational Skills:

• Supplier & Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• Auditing & Factory compliance
• Understanding of PLM and 3D
• Data Analysis
• Risk Assessment
• Basic Microsoft office skills

Experience:

• Relevant qualification(s) in a related area
• Relevant knowledge/experience of delivering safe, legal, responsibly sourced, sustainable, quality products to the customer
• Knowledge of legislation, standards, risk assessment and end to end incident management
• Understanding of retail & customer needs
• Understanding of raw materials and its performance

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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 20% of base salary
• 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 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

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.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.