CZ/SK Senior Buying Associate - Data Operations

Tesco Hungary  •  Budapest  •  Apply by 19-Oct-2025 What is in it for you

We know life is different for everyone, so at Tesco we're open to flexible working conversations. Whether you're starting out, seeking balance, or navigating life changes like parenthood or caregiving — talk to us. You'll spend around 60% of your time working from our offices or sites, and the rest remotely.

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:

• Competitive Compensation package based on your experience and skills (Cafeteria, Mobile phone, 15% shopping discount in every Hungarian Tesco store)
• Annual private healthcare package
• Performance-based annual bonus
• Minimum of 25 paid leave days per year
• Career Growth is not just a cliché - we operate in 3 markets as one Central European business, so there are many opportunities for growth and development
• Solid Business Background with more than 100 proud years of company history
• We are a Great Team and we are not fond of any formalities here
• Modern Office with great location (e.g.: free parking)
• Flexible working policy

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You will be responsible for

Roles And Responsibilities:

Within Tesco Business Services & Technology Customer & Product function provides support for the Central European Commercial buying teams - responsible for goods purchased for re-sale. Our team in Budapest works together with the Buyers, Buying assistants, Category managers as well as other, connected parts of the retail business in the area of Supplier listing, data modification & contract management, Invoice query management, Commercial margin recovery & system support. Our team consists of 25 multilingual colleagues providing services of the above business areas for the Czech, Slovak & Hungarian markets.

• Responsible for monitor and validate product data in induction system within agreed timeframe (SLA) and defined quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with the Buyers and Suppliers to ensure all requests are processed on time
• Regular follow-up activities on ongoing queries and open cases
• Deliver work base on standard operating procedures defined for each of these processes
• Be accountable for all the activities and processes throughout the Area that are required and detailed in process description documents
• Providing work allocation support through driving daily huddles
• Prepare and maintain daily, weekly, periodic KPI reports
• Be the first point of contact for supporting team members with process questions and issue resolution
• Ensure QC is completed on daily basis and reported to dashboard; errors discussed and escalated to Senior Manager
• Work together with stakeholders and internally to drive process improvements and engagements
• Ensure process documentation and SLAs are always up to date.
• Be involved in operational projects connected to strategy

You will need

You will be great in this role if you have:

• Ability to work accurately and consistently
• 1-2 years experience in similar role
• Strong attention to details
• Experience of balancing priorities in a changing environment to meet deadlines
• University / College degree
• Solid experience of using MS Office tools (Outlook, Excel, Word & Power point)
• Upper-Intermediate English
• Ability to converse in Czech or Slovak (at least upper-intermediate level)
• Willingness to relocate to Budapest

About us

We established our service centre supporting Tesco's operation in the Central European region back in 2019. Our colleagues provide service for Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia in several fields: finance, people and payroll services, colleague and customer engagement, customer and product, enterprise analytics. Besides these, we have a modern Technology Hub developing software and applications used by millions of people - customers and colleagues - globally. Our young and dynamic teams are driving and accelerating changes on a global scale, so it is important for us to find colleagues that are open to learn and develop themselves. At Tesco Business Services & Technology we support our business in operating efficiently and serving shoppers a little better every day.