Job Introduction
This role requires balancing exceptional delivery for customers on what matters, engaging teams and colleagues with the needs of the business. The candidate within this role is often the first layer of management of people or projects. You will look to design, develop and sample great quality and inspirational product ranges for our customers at the best price.

Main Responsibilities
- Interpreting and anticipating customer, catwalk and competitor insight gathering
- Visiting stores to understand how ranges have landed, listening to and understanding customer feedback and building learnings into future designs
- Communicating with the buying teams to create awareness of emerging trends and colours-
- Understanding weekly trade, best and worst lines to influence seasonal strategy
- Creating a design plan for my department
- Designing ranges with the correct number of options, offering choice to the customer using good/better/best principles
- Delivering 'must haves' and seasonal products for our customer
- Compiling quality briefing packs to achieve 'right first time' quality buying sample
- Working with quality category colleagues, preparing technical specifications  to ensure the right fit, quality and price
- Inputting and adhering to the critical path
- 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

The Ideal Candidate
Operational skills relevant for this role -
- Influencing and stakeholder management
- Creative design (incl. principles, tools, techniques)
- Product development/sampling
- Research and forecasting
- Range planning
- MS Office and design tools  (incl. CAD, Illustrator, Photoshop)
Experience relevant for this role.
- Commercial design management experience in international business setting
- Product development and range planning
- Experience relating to the job Description

About The Company
Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world.
We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we're finding bigger and better ways to provide it.
Everything is underpinned by our continuous drive for the best tools and technology to deliver our vision. We're driving innovation and transforming our Technology to become the world's leading retailer.
We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; Passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package, and significant career development opportunities.
Joining us means playing a part in defining; building and launching an ambitious roadmap of digital products that could affect the lives of millions of people over the years to come.
If that sounds exciting then we'd love to hear from you!
The position will be based at the F&F Head Office, Hatfield.

Package 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
• Colleague Clubcard (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