Food Graduate Programme

Job description

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:

·  An annual bonus scheme which you can achieve up to 3.5% of base salary.
·  Privilegecard (including a 2 nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco.
·  A retirement savings plan - 4%-7.5% contribution rate
·  Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
·  Buy As You Earn Scheme
·  Save As You Earn Scheme
·  Tesco Car Purchase Scheme (provided by Alphabet).
·  Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank

Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses

About The Job

It's where we first began and it remains the most important part of what we offer customers every day.

Within Food, our team aim to serve Britain's shoppers a little better every day by making great quality food accessible to our customer's every day!

We cover everything from working with local producers through to global sourcing. Every day offers a different challenge as we focus on our shared passion on offering fantastic quality, innovation and value for money.

The way our customers shop is changing so we have structured our Food teams to ensure we can lead the way in the new world of multichannel retailing. Our teams of experts work to ensure our customers get exactly what they want.

Main Responsibilities

You could be a Buyer, sourcing and buying great quality products for our customers at the best price; or a Customer expert, using insight to drive our overall strategy for Food.

Alternatively you could join our team of Commodity and Packaging experts, helping our business and our suppliers to manage commodity risk.

If Agriculture is your passion, you could join our team of Agriculture experts, working with our farmers to strengthen our partnerships and ensure our products are meeting standards right from the source.

There are also opportunities abroad in our key Sourcing regions. These roles are crucial in keeping us more connected to people, products and activities on the ground. That could mean managing tropical fruit in Costa Rica, grapes in Chile or tinned tomatoes in Italy.

The programme will be based in Hertfordshire.

The Food Buying and Customer teams have to anticipate what customers want, using the latest customer insight and trend information to build the best ranges and market-leading offers across both brands and own-label. From the juiciest berries to the zingiest shower gels, every product you see on shelf or on promotion will have been decided by you and your team, based on what we know is right for customers.

Ideal Candidate

·  At least a 2:1 in any subject
·  To work with others and achieve success together
·  To put people and our customers at the heart of what you do
·  To be agile in the way you think, make decisions and handle change
·  To stick to your values and do the right thing, even when it's tough
·  A positive attitude, and a way of inspiring confidence in others
·  To be connected to the latest thinking, inside and outside of the business
·  The hunger to drive your own career and become one of our leaders.
·  Be an innovator, spotting opportunities to improve our business
·  Show great resilience, staying positive and inspiring confidence in others.

About the Company

About Tesco UK

Our operations in the UK are the largest within the Group, with over 3500 stores and over 310,000 colleagues. We have strengthened the foundations of the UK business and we are now accelerating plans to deliver the most compelling offer for customers with sharper prices, improved quality, stronger ranges and better service. Every colleague has an amazing opportunity to play their part in delivering small changes every day that can make a big difference to customers and colleagues.

Core Purpose and Values

Our business was built with a simple mission to be the champion for customers, helping them to enjoy a better quality of life and an easier way of living. This hasn't changed. Customers want great products at great value which they can buy easily and it's our job to deliver this in the right way for them.

That's why we've chosen Serving Britain's shoppers a little better every day' as our new core purpose. As a business, serving customers is at the heart of everything we do from colleagues in our stores to those of us in supporting roles.

In the UK, we serve some 66 shoppers every second, so it's our goal to ensure every one of those customers experiences just a little better service on each visit.

Desired profile

Ideal Candidate

·  At least a 2:1 in any subject
·  To work with others and achieve success together
·  To put people and our customers at the heart of what you do
·  To be agile in the way you think, make decisions and handle change
·  To stick to your values and do the right thing, even when it's tough
·  A positive attitude, and a way of inspiring confidence in others
·  To be connected to the latest thinking, inside and outside of the business
·  The hunger to drive your own career and become one of our leaders.
·  Be an innovator, spotting opportunities to improve our business
·  Show great resilience, staying positive and inspiring confidence in others.