Lead - Primary Distribution Services

3 years

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Tesco India • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Hybrid • Full-Time • Permanent • Apply by 25-Jul-2025
About the role
Refer to Responsibilities
What is in it for you
At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you.
As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.
Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.
Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles - simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable.
Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment.
Performance Bonus - Opportunity to earn additional compensation bonus based on performance, paid annually
Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy.
Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF.
Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws.
Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.
Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.
Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.
Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle.
You will be responsible for
Job Summary:
In this role, you will assist the Tesco Business by offering insights, empowering stakeholders to make informed decisions, streamlining operations, improving supplier experience, and introducing new projects to create cost-effective solutions for depots and suppliers in the Distribution Network, contributing to organizational success. In this job, I’m accountable for: Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:
  • Represent Talent Acquisition in all forums/ seminars pertaining to process, compliance and audit
  • Perform other miscellaneous duties as required by management
  • Driving CI culture, implementing CI projects and innovation within the team
  • Guide and support the team in achieving organizational objectives by providing direction, coaching, and mentoring
  • Implement robust processes and controls to ensure accuracy and reliability of timely order deliveries, ensuring Business Continuity
  • Develop various Business reports for Distribution Network to show trends on upcoming events by providing insights which in turn helps
UK leadership team make better decisions for efficiently managing depot capacity
  • Responsible for ensuring smooth delivery of operations for achieving accurate plans in partnership with the Tranport Network
  • Responsible for spotting the various risk factors, potential delays and working with DC managers to escalate priorities and bring
solutions to closure enabling the stock reaching stores on time
  • Improve Service Level Agreements (SLAs) by setting clear targets, monitoring performance, and implementing measures for
continuous improvement
  • Build and develop strong working relationship with Supplier, Depots, Consolidators, Commercial, Supply Chain, DC capacity planning,
delivery slot planning, to support and deliver action plans for a smooth depot maintenance.
  • Lead cross-functional projects following the Victory Model framework to achieve great outcomes
  • Monitor industry trends and regulatory shifts concerning Supplier agreements and depot capacity updates due to maintenance,
adjusting strategies and processes proactively as necessary.
Key people and teams I work with in and outside of Tesco: People, budgets and other resources I am accountable for in my job: DC Managers, IT, Supply Chain Managers NA Finance Team, Suppliers, Hauliers, Network Planning Team, Transport team, Compliance Clerks and Supplier Inbound Operational skills relevant for this job: Experience relevant for this job: Problem solving skills and analytical mindset - Expert
  • Any Graduate
Excellent communication
  • Specialization in Supply chain and logistics Operations
Ability to lead and motivate a team - Expert
preferably Delivery Schedule planning software and tools - Expert
  • 3+ Years of Planning role and supply chain experience
Stakeholder Management - Expert
  • Knowledge of Compliance and Governance
Team Player
Advanced Excel, Business Reporting - Expert
You will need
Refer to Responsibilities
About us
Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers.
Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues.
Tesco Business Solutions:
Established in 2017, Tesco Business Solutions (TBS) has evolved from a single entity traditional shared services in Bengaluru, India (from 2004) to a global, purpose-driven solutions-focused organisation. TBS is committed to driving scale at speed and delivering value to the Tesco Group through the power of decision science. With over 4,400 highly skilled colleagues globally, TBS supports markets and business units across four locations in the UK, India, Hungary, and the Republic of Ireland. The organisation underpins everything that the Tesco Group does, bringing innovation, a solutions mindset, and agility to its operations and support functions, building winning partnerships across the business. TBS's focus is on adding value and creating impactful outcomes that shape the future of the business. TBS creates a sustainable competitive advantage for the Tesco Group by becoming the partner of choice for talent, transformation, and value creation

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