About the role

As an Assistant Buyer for Lingerie, Briefs & Tops, you'll play a key role in shaping trend-led, customer-focused ranges that millions of customers love. Working closely with your Buying Manager and cross-functional teams, you'll help build compelling product collections, identify commercial opportunities and deliver profitable ranges that bring the F&F brand to life.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of our most dynamic Clothing categories, where you'll have real influence on product decisions, supplier relationships and range performance. We're looking for an ambitious, commercially minded Assistant Buyer who is ready to take on a new challenge and accelerate their career within one of the UK's leading retailers.

What is in it for you

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Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary.
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
Free 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.

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You will be responsible for

Core Responsibilities

Providing support to keep the function running smoothly

Day-to-Day management of Buying Administrators within the team, developing both their technical and leadership skills

Product Development Support

Manage part of product category independently under guidance of Buying Manager
Identifying new product opportunities and understanding from concept to production to bring new products to the ranges. Ensuring alignment with trend direction and brand handwriting.
Understanding and supporting the departmental sourcing strategy.

Supplier & Factory Liaison

Communicate directly with factories on costing, lead times, sample revisions, and product specifications.
Point of contact and problem solving on adhoc queries

Costing & Margin Management

Analyse costing options, propose margin improvement solutions, and track cost changes during development, supplier negotiation.
MPD/ MPP management

Range Building & Trading

Contribute to range planning: propose new ideas, identify gaps based on sales performance, and support buying decisions with data.
Preparing information, product or analysis - monitor weekly trading: identify best/worst sellers, recommend repeats, and highlight risks.
Prepare comp shops as required, utilise the Edited platform

Cross‑Functional Coordination

Liaising with HUBs and Suppliers to monitor critical path taking actions to ensure on time delivery

Work with marketing/online/packaging on product briefs for shoots, descriptions, and launch priorities.

Support Technical - understanding product components, technical requirements, sourcing and supply chain issues and commercial margin parameters.

Work with VM with store visual guidelines

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will need

Clothing retail experience
Product development and sourcing experience
Range building skills
Report preparation and analysis skills
Ideally line management responsibility
Data analysis and numeracy skills
MS Office

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here  for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

When you join us in this role, you'll be employed by Tesco Stores Limited, the Tesco legal entity responsible for your employment.

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