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Category Technical ManagerHead Office
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Category Technical Manager to join our Ambient Grocery team. The purpose of the job is to enable Asda to become Britain’s most trusted retailer. This will be achieved by working with our business partners to lead and deliver due diligence and brand requirements in our accountable categories and throughout our teams, as well as exciting our customers through fantastic innovation and quality for a primal meat and fish ranges.
As a Category Technical Manager for Ambient Grocery you will be responsible for promoting a culture of compliance, enabling the business strategy as well as protecting and enhancing the Asda Brand. You will manage the delivery of product and supplier compliance across ASDA supply base for products we sell to our customers. You will play a pivotal role in the development of product in our own brand ranges ensuring we are giving our customers the best quality at affordable prices and giving them the Asda feeling. Other responsibilities in the role include:
· Engage the trading and customer planning teams to deliver the own brand strategy for your product area, understanding the market and developing fantastic products to delight our customers.
· Deliver the critical path for development and launch of own brand product.
· Agree and implement quality plans with our supplying partners to ensure we offer consistently great quality.
· Implement plans for benchmarking, consistency and improvement based on customer feedback, such as online reviews, customer complaints.
· Manage the Technical review process, engaging business partners from start to end in line with our policy.
· Supporting the delivery of excellent supplier communications – e.g. supplier conferences / training programs.
· Be the category strategic lead for technical and where applicable, quality compliance in your accountable areas by working cross functionally to support the senior manager to deliver the business strategy and the application of technical innovation.
· Conduct strategic risk assessment reviews of the supplier base in conjunction with risk and strategic category plans.
· Ensure all visits and audits are completed as required after following a consistent, robust and documented risk assessment.
· Work as an enabler to your business unit, adding value to the category through knowledge of your supply base and product range.
· Ensure all specifications in the HIVE have a risk assessment, are agreed with your business partners and actioned as required.
· Line management and development of direct reports and commitment to growing talent.
· Ensure all active supplying sites are on the HIVE, and have required compliance and Responsible sourcing documentation
· Support the development, engagement (internal and external) and delivery of policies or processes relevant to your category areas to ensure compliance is embedded and effective at point of launch.
· Active participation in Horizon Scanning (internal / external) of the category area, investigating anomalies and supporting development of policy and processes to mitigate Asda brand exposure to risk.
“Let's find out about you”
As an experienced Technical Manager you will have experience of leading complex food categories within retail, FMCG or a manufacturing environment and have the ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders by demonstrating your professional knowledge and area of expertise. You will have a passion for this industry and subject matter expertise.
· Experience of leading complex food categories within retail, FMCG or Manufacturing environment. A natural problem solver and credible leader
· Influence both internal and external stakeholders by demonstrating your professional knowledge and area of expertise
· Degree or equivalent in relevant product or scientific area
· A solid background gained within a similar technical role, supplemented with extensive industry experience in category
· Understanding of technical and manufacturing experience
· Commercial and customer awareness
· Ability to prioritise and flex to business needs
· Proven track record of results delivery & decision making
· The ability to “make a difference” with a commercial instinct
· Build strong sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships with key suppliers
· Be able to demonstrate an ability to engage across multiple channels and work effectively and collaboratively across multiple teams
· Deliver at pace in a complex, fast-moving and ever-changing environment
· Lead by example and do the right thing whilst being open, honest, and accessible
· Dare to try through innovative thought and not waiting to make good things happen
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
Discretionary company bonus
Company pension up to 7% matched
Company Car allowance of £5,700
15% colleague discount in store and online
Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
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Why Asda?
We’re a really values-led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone’s input. We get on with things, we make them happen. As so many people across the UK rely on us, we have to.
Our Creating Change for Better programme tackles the major challenges facing our business and society today and guides our efforts on where we can make the biggest difference by reducing our environmental footprint, creating healthier products and supporting our communities.
Big businesses like ours offer big opportunities. With more than 1,000 stores across the UK, from superstores and Asda Living to petrol stations, as well as depots and Express stores. £60m+ in revenue taken every day. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles 2 million transactions a month. And 75% of the UK shop in Asda every year.
Rewards and Recognition
Free remote GP service
Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.
Pension
Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.
Free physiotherapy consultations
Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.
Colleague discounts
15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.
Car cash allowance
Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.
(*Conditions apply)
Mortgage advice
Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.
Confidential support helpline
Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.
Cycle to work
Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.
Financial support
Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.
Free eye tests
Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.
Bonus
Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.
Cancer support
Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.
Paid time off
From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.
Mental health support
Access free mental health support for you and your family.
Support and advice with care
If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.
Hybrid working
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots
Save money on every day spends
Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more
Setting your loved ones up for the future
As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.
Guaranteed contracted hours
All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.
Holiday buying
Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).
Everything that makes us different, makes us Asda
Our colleague-led inclusion networks, including our DisAbility, Race & Ethnicity, Women at Asda, LGBTQIA+, and our Wellbeing Network, are all about giving our colleagues a space to share their stories, experiences, and perspective. Supported by our dedicated Executive Ambassadors and led by our ten passionate co-chairs, our Networks help us make changes that make life better for every colleague.
Transforming communities and changing lives
Our stores, distribution centres, and head offices work in local communities across the UK – and we want to be a real part of making a difference for them. From our amazing 400 Community Champions to our charity, The Asda Foundation, we’ve got loads of ways to help local groups and charities. Our outreach programmes, grants, and Community Champions are all about listening to our communities’ needs – to shape projects and initiatives that will make a real impact for local people.
Our commitment to the Armed Forces
Here at Asda, we’re dedicated to helping the Armed Forces rediscover their everything after service. We guarantee interviews for people who have left service and meet the minimum criteria for a role, provide leave for reservists’ training, support for cadet training, and employment opportunities for their partners. And that’s why we have over a thousand new colleagues from the Armed Forces Service Leaver Community join us every year.
Head Office roles
Thinking bigger, looking forwards, and always asking what’s next, Our Head Office teams aren’t afraid to challenge how we think, and embrace fresh perspectives, experiences, and change – all to keep us growing.
Asda House
The heart of everything Asda in the centre of Leeds, Asda House is full of collaborative workspaces and meeting rooms where teams work together to deliver real value for ordinary working people.
It’s home to its own Leon restaurant, where you can get discounted food and drinks, as well as two shops and a staff discount store, where you can sometimes snap up some real end of season bargains. We also have regular atrium events, where you’ll often have a chance to sample new products, and play host to exciting celebrity guests. And you can park your car for free in our onsite parking, with electric charging points just over the road.
If you're looking for a new opportunity and you want a challenge within a fast-paced environment with great culture then a role at Asda would be ideal for you.
Polly,
Commercial and Propositions Lead
The flexibility is great, I can attend school events like sports days and I can go for my morning run when I'm working from home and in the office as they have showers.
Tom,
Seasonal Packaging Design Specialist
The role is really varied and diverse. You get involved in so many different things! Everyone is so supportive and really cares about your personal development.
Hayley,
Buying Manager
Work where it works
Here at Asda, we think that the best way to work is to do it where it works best. That’s why all of our teams who are able to work from home, work with each other to figure out a pattern that works for you all, and the business needs. So you can get the most out of work, whether that’s at home, the office, or both.