Senior Assistant Buyer (Women's Socks and Hosiery)

Location: Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom; hybrid with 60% of the week spent collaborating at office locations or local sites and the remainder remotely.

Company

Tesco operates across supermarket retail, technology, and mobile services, serving customers and communities internationally.

What you will do

• Support the Buying Manager with range building, product development, sourcing strategy, and trade performance.
• Independently manage part of the women's socks and hosiery category, identifying product opportunities from concept through production.
• Liaise with factories and suppliers on costing, lead times, samples, specifications, and ad hoc problem solving.
• Analyse costs and margins, track changes, and propose margin improvement solutions.
• Monitor weekly trading, identify best and worst sellers, recommend repeats, and highlight commercial risks.
• Coordinate with suppliers, HUBs, marketing, online, packaging, technical, supply chain, and visual merchandising teams to support on-time launches.

Requirements

• Experience in clothing retail, product development, and sourcing.
• Strong range building, data analysis, numeracy, and report preparation skills.
• Experience managing suppliers and factories across product development and delivery processes.
• Experience with MS Office.
• Ideally, previous line management responsibility and the ability to develop Buying Administrators.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with 60% of the week at office locations or local sites.
• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary.
• At least 25 days of holiday plus a personal day and bank holidays.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave benefits.
• Access to a 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme, and mental wellbeing support.
• Inclusive and accessible recruitment process with Disability Confident Leader accreditation.