Marketplace Development Executive

About the role

About Marketplace

Marketplace is a brand-new online venture for Tesco, designed to give our customers the opportunity to use our website to shop for a wide range of third-party products in addition to the groceries they already know and love. Our initial focus will be on pet food, health and beauty products and alcohol, and as with other online marketplaces, sellers will fulfil orders directly. Join us on this exciting new journey, and you’ll be a key member of a hardworking, collaborative team that’s delivering on our promise to serve our customers, communities and the planet a little better every day.

You will be responsible for

You will be responsible for

Job Summary: Own and shape workstreams within Marketplace across business planning, programme management, strategy, and proposition development. Support the long-term business plan by identifying opportunities to grow the business profitably, and report on delivery against OKRs. Work collaboratively with your squad members on new projects and work streams to improve the customer offer.

In this job, I am accountable for:

Proposition Development

• Using data and market research to find opportunities to grow sales and profit
• crafting business cases, running tests and implementing takeaways
• Working with various business teams to ensure knowledge is shared across business for collaborative and efficient proposition development and testing

Business Strategy & Performance:

• Owning the business planning for Marketplace, working alongside other business teams, technology and finance partners.
• Translating the long-term plan into yearly budget, business objectives and key results areas

Programme Management

• Working cross-functionally to build a comprehensive programme plan, supervising delivery of key initiatives against the timelines and highlighting any potential delays
• Shaping and crafting insightful reporting and tracking to help us spot opportunities for growth and improved efficiency, and manage ongoing work
• Project management skills liaising across legal & compliance teams, co-ordinating information to be shared across multiple business functions

• Working collaboratively with Centre of Excellence colleagues to feed into wider business planning
• Managing the Marketplace business governance and programme communication with Online Leadership Team Work as a business partner to Technology teams, create business cases to inform technology backlog prioritisation

You will need

• Understanding of Online business model and economics
• Working collaboratively
• Experience building or scoping new business propositions
• Reporting and/or analytics
• Pragmatic and strategic thinking
• Agile and creative problem solving
• Strong project management
• Stakeholder management

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About us

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.

What’s in it for you

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 Bank holidays)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 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
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• 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 and we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• 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

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