Supply Chain Analyst

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 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco
·  Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day
·  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
·  Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank
·  Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses

About The Job

As an Analyst for Supply Chain you will lead development projects that improve the Supply Chain for Tesco, suppliers and customers. These projects will improve availability, reduce costs and optimise stock holding.

Supply Chain at Tesco is a global operation responsible for getting hundreds of millions of products from farms and factories to our millions of customer each and every day. The demands on Tesco's supply chain have never been greater as our customers want more flexibility in how they shop with an ever growing range of products to choose from. You have the opportunity to be part of the team that responds to that challenge and constantly transforms Tesco's supply chain to provide outstanding value to our customers irrespective of how or where they want to shop.

Main Responsibilities

Developing and testing hypotheses using carefully selected data
- Reporting data accurately and turning it into useful information which has context and supporting narrative
- Developing a deep understanding of how the retail industry, our supply chain and store operations work and why
- Using a combination of data and business understanding to turn data into insight, root causing issues, defining problems and designing creative solutions.
- Building strong stakeholder relationships and describing my team's insights and plans with empathy and conviction
- Building carefully considered plans to effect changes in systems, processes and job roles. Leading on the delivery of some projects and delivering our plans to time and budget.
- Measuring the costs & benefits associated with the changes delivered by my team and recommending suspension/ postponement of delivery if an opportunity fails to materialise or previously unknown costs become apparent
- Maintaining & developing our suite of insight reports to give our operators and leadership visibility of how the business is performing and what we need to do to improve
- Using my expertise to build Analyst's technical capability and shape their work to make it more relevant & engaging.
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
- Developing and leading a high performing team, giving them the opportunities to be their best (optional)

Ideal Candidate

Operational Skills
Data Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
Process Improvement
Simple communication
Project management
Financial Acumen: cost and benefit tracking

Relevant Experience
Supply Chain Operations
Knowledge of our Suppliers' supply chains
Good degree from a recognised institution
Using tools to extract & and analyse data (especially SQL, Excel & Matlab)
Work with systems & technology

About the Company

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues. It's part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we're proud to have been accredited as one of Britain's Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, we have a vast variety of roles and we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business. We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers.

Desired profile

Ideal Candidate

Operational Skills
Data Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
Process Improvement
Simple communication
Project management
Financial Acumen: cost and benefit tracking

Relevant Experience
Supply Chain Operations
Knowledge of our Suppliers' supply chains
Good degree from a recognised institution
Using tools to extract & and analyse data (especially SQL, Excel & Matlab)
Work with systems & technology