Overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Tesco as Head of Healthy & Sustainable Diets on a 12-month parental leave cover contract, leading the development and delivery of Tesco Group’s ambitious Healthy & Sustainable Diets strategy.

Working at the heart of the business, you’ll partner with senior stakeholders across Categories, Customer, Insight, Communications and international markets to shape and champion a strategy that helps millions of customers make healthier and more sustainable choices every day.

In this high-profile leadership role, you’ll be responsible for bringing the strategy to life across the organisation, driving engagement, influencing business-wide priorities, and ensuring progress against key goals and commitments is effectively measured and communicated. You’ll play a pivotal role in accelerating Tesco’s impact and maintaining our position as a leader in health and sustainability.

Reporting to the Group Sustainability Director and serving as an integral member of the Sustainability Leadership Team, you’ll have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on customers, communities and the future of food.

You will be responsible for
  • Developing the short, medium and long term strategy and action plan for healthy and sustainable (H&S) diets.
  • Continuing to drive the healthy diets shift including developing the short, medium and long term strategy and action plans alongside the wider Group strategy.
  • Bringing sustainable diets more into the plans including the short, medium and long term strategy alongside healthy diets.
  • Engagement and communication of strategy across the business.
  • Influencing across the business in order to ensure HS Diets is a key priority where relevant.
  • Leading a cross functional team to deliver our Healthy Sales target and wider H&S diets strategy and plan.
  • Ensuring all teams across the business have access to the information and data they need in order to build, forecast, deliver and measure their plans.
  • Supporting group to build health data and measurement solutions for their markets.
  • Reviewing and communicating progress against the strategy.
  • Engaging with external stakeholders regarding our H&S Diets strategy, plans and progress, eg, investors, charity partners, foundations, academia, industry partners, suppliers.
  • Disclosing accurate progress reports against our external commitments.
  • Oversight of the nutrition standards and additives requirements we work to on own brand.
  • Oversight of the ingredient and innovation pipeline.
  • Developing the team in line with Tesco’s Winning Behaviours.
You will need
  • Strong people leadership experience, with a proven ability to build, develop and motivate high-performing teams.
  • Experience creating and delivering large-scale strategic plans that drive measurable business and customer outcomes.
  • Strong analytical skills, with experience using customer, market and performance data to shape strategy and inform decision-making.
  • A track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders in a complex organisation.
  • Excellent communication and engagement skills, with the ability to bring colleagues on a journey and drive alignment behind a shared vision.
  • The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution to deliver meaningful impact.
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