Tesco
Test and Learn Squad Lead - 12 Month Secondment
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Test and Learn Squad Lead – Strategy and Transformation, Tesco
About the Role
We're recruiting for a Test and Learn Squad Lead within the Strategy and Transformation team at Tesco.
In this role, you will lead a Rapid Test and Learn squad, focusing on continuously experimenting to identify, refine, and scale the most effective ways to engage customers and drive valuable behaviours. You’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team—including test owners, analysts, and channel specialists—defining, designing, launching, and measuring high-impact communication experiments at speed.
Your key responsibility is to ensure we’re constantly learning what works and what doesn’t, then turning insights into scaled activity that delivers measurable sales and profitability growth.
Operating in an agile environment, you’ll manage sprint cadences, prioritisation, and squad capacity, shaping focus areas to maximise customer and commercial impact. You’ll be accountable for delivering agreed business KPIs, including incremental sales and profit from testing and scaling initiatives, while evolving your approach based on real customer insights and performance data.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery and Performance of the Squad
- Lead end-to-end delivery of the Test and Learn agenda, from idea through to scaled execution.
- Own key performance outcomes, including:
- Number of tests run
- Percentage of winning tests
- Percentage of tests scaled
- Incremental sales and profit delivered
- Balance speed, quality, and impact—not just volume of testing.
Translating Learning into Growth
- Ensure insights from tests are clear, actionable, and reused across the business.
- Drive transitions from test-to-prove-to-scale, preventing strong ideas from stagnating.
- Build a culture of evidence-based decision making within and beyond the squad.
Shaping Priorities and Direction
- Represent Test and Learn in the Customer Planning Flow to prioritise work based on impact and capacity.
- Actively challenge and refine the backlog to focus on the highest-value opportunities.
- Partner with commercial, product, and channel teams to align testing priorities with growth goals.
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Removing Barriers and Enabling Pace
- Work with other squad leads to unblock dependencies across data, technology, creative, and channels.
- Identify systemic friction and improve Test and Learn operations, not just resolving one-off issues.
- Enable the squad to move quickly without compromising governance or quality.
Embedding New Capabilities (e.g., Adobe)
- Support the implementation and evolution of tools like Adobe to enhance testing, learning, and scaling.
- Translate new tools into practical improvements and feed back requirements to shape future capability.
Commercial Storytelling and Influence
- Shape a clear, compelling commercial narrative for Test and Learn in partnership with Finance and performance teams.
- Communicate performance, insight, and opportunities to drive action and investment.
- Act as a visible advocate for Test and Learn across the business.
Requirements & Attributes
Essential Skills and Mindset
- Clarity and focus – Ensure the squad always understands what matters most.
- Pace with purpose – Balance speed with thoughtful learning.
- Empowering teams – Enable analysts, test owners, and channel experts to perform at their best.
- Hands-on leadership – Stay close to the detail without micromanaging.
- Collaboration and relationships – Build strong, trusted partnerships to drive outcomes.
- Energy and mindset – Bring enthusiasm and a strong belief in experimentation.
Key Competencies
- Commercial and data acumen – Strong commercial awareness and confidence in data-led decisions.
- Strategic delivery – Blend strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- Cross-functional leadership – Lead initiatives that deliver customer and commercial impact.
- Agile experience – Comfortable working within agile or test-and-learn environments.
- Storytelling and influence – Communicate clearly and influence stakeholders at all levels.
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Stakeholder Management
- Ability to prioritise complex stakeholders and focus on highest-impact opportunities.
What’s in It for You?
At Tesco, we prioritise "the little helps"—supporting you both in and out of work. Key benefits include:
- Annual bonus of up to 20% of your base salary.
- 25 days holiday (plus a personal day) – plus bank holidays.
- Private medical insurance for you and eligible dependants.
- 26 weeks’ maternity and adoption leave (if you have 12+ months’ service), with full pay for the first 26 weeks, followed by 13 weeks’ Statutory Maternity/Adoption Pay.
- 6 weeks’ fully paid paternity leave.
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, plus an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family.
- Confidential access to mental health experts for wellness support.
For full details, refer to our policies.
About Tesco
You might recognise us as a supermarket, tech company, or award-winning mobile network—but we’re so much more. Our colleagues unite behind a simple goal: making every day a little better for customers, colleagues, and communities worldwide.
We champion a balance that lets you thrive—60% collaboration in offices/sites, 40% remote. Whether you’re starting your career, pursuing passions, or managing life transitions, we’re here to support flexible working.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, let us know.
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