Tesco
Risk Technologist – Food - Marketplace
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About the Role
We are looking for a Risk Technologist – Food – Marketplace to join our Quality team supporting our Marketplace growth ambitions in the food area.
You will work closely with our Marketplace supplier onboarding team to ensure sellers are fully vetted and any product listings are safe, legal, and compliant and provide support to our post-market team if issues arise after seller launch.
The ideal candidate will have a background in food and drink legislation to place product on the market. They will be responsible for ensuring that the products sold on our marketplace comply with relevant laws and regulations related to quality, safety, environment, and legality.
You will be responsible for
- Ensure that all food products sold on our marketplace comply with relevant legislation and policies related to safety, quality, and the environment.
- Collect and verify information from third-party sellers who want to join our marketplace platform.
- Risk assess products and ensure the appropriate checks and due diligence are in place for food and drink (including beers, wines, and spirits, vitamins & supplements).
- Manage seller onboarding checks and product induction, ensuring that sellers meet the technical and legal requirements to sell on our platform.
- Support teams to ensure relevant Tesco policies are met, such as product safety, sustainability, and ethical sourcing.
- Provide ongoing support and knowledge to marketplace team and seller base.
- Use tools to ensure the quality of new product listings, checking that they have accurate and complete information, images, and descriptions.
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You will need
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- Knowledge of Food and drink UK and EU laws and regulations related to supplier and retail quality, safety, and legality.
- Relevant knowledge/experience of delivering safe, legal, and responsibly sourced, great quality products to our customers.
- Experience in Product technical compliance, quality assurance, or risk management.
- Desirable Knowledge of e-commerce, marketplace, or retail industry.
- Familiarity with Tesco's policies and standards, or ability to learn quickly.
- Understanding of retail and customer needs.
- Understanding and application of risk and risk assessment.
What’s 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, plus 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and access to mental wellbeing support
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