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Odartey joined the business as an In-store Technician in 2013 after completing his foundation degree in Aircraft Engineering at Kingston University: “I decided to apply for an in-store technician role, as I knew it would allow me to gain experience in a wide range of engineering maintenance. Being a store technician is unique in that, it allows you to have a real responsibility from day one in maintaining all Tesco assets and carrying on reactive and proactive maintenance, including plan preventive work. After five years I took on my new challenge as heating ventilation and air conditioning engineer and was responsible for looking after Tesco HVAC equipment for over 500 hundred Tesco stores with 16 team members. My current role is multi skilled fridge engineer and I’m responsible for maintaining, repairing and servicing over 10,000 Tesco fridges across London. The main thing that brings me to work every day is being recognised as a valued team member in my department. The support I receive from my managers and other senior colleagues is so encouraging.”
Alex, one of our Tech graduates has recently had the opportunity to take part in a placement with our technology innovation team, he shares his experience below. "Think of it like a seven week hackathon where you and your group get to tackle a specific problem within Tesco. We worked across stores, supply chain and the head office campus. To solve our challenge we were provided with state of the art mobile devices and ended up building a great end user product. It was a great experience bringing our ideas to fruition and envisaging how customers and colleagues might be using the latest technologies in the years to come." #aplacetogeton #tescocareers #graduates
What will you do with your F&F hangers? In July we visited colleagues based in our Cheshunt store to show them some of the charities that receive funding from our hanger recycling scheme. Click here to watch the video to see the great work our teams are doing: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQmVy
Our own Natasha Adams FCIPD has recently been promoted from People Director for UK & ROI to the Chief People Officer for Tesco Group, a really exciting time for Tesco. Natasha is an ambassador to our partners Everywoman Ltd and below you can read her career story to date as well as some excellent top tips Natasha has shared! Click here to read more: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQmiE
Congratulations to our UK Capability Learning Design Team in partnership with Media Zoo for being shortlisted for a globally recognised training award, Training Journal. The award body recognises the ingenuity, passion and hard work of learning and development teams from around the world. We have been shortlisted for overhauling our UK stores learning framework in the category of Best Operational Programme. Read the full story here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQGoM
Claire works in one of our distribution centres and has just started our internal LGV Apprenticeship programme, she shares her experience here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQGSo
Fundraising fever has set in at our campus as over twenty of our graduates from across the business collaborate to take part in a National 3 Peaks Challenge in September. They are doing a fantastic job of fundraising, training and promoting our charity partners. Their aim is to raise a whopping £10,000 #tesco #aplacetogeton #tescocareers #graduates #threepeakschallenge Follow us here for more stories: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQG1V
Meet Mandy Morris, our Head of Finance for Procurement and Technology. Mandy joined us in 2010 and we are delighted to share her story about becoming a Woman in Finance at Tesco: "It’s really easy for people to be intimated by the term “Finance” and I have been completely guilty of it as it took me a long time to get the nerve up to move back into Finance after working elsewhere in the business for five years. But I think Finance can sometimes be less about the numbers and more about the story" Click here to read the full story: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQGUN
We’re sending a huge congratulations to Rachael, one of our distribution graduates who won Graduate of the Year last night at the Rising Star Awards 2018. “I feel extremely honoured to have won the Graduate of the Year Award and I am incredibly grateful to have such recognition for the work I have done. I’d like to thank all of the Tesco Distribution team for their continued support throughout my time on the Graduate Programme and for giving me a world of opportunities. I am very proud to be part of this fantastic team and of the Tesco community.” Using multiple colleague inputs and her own diagnostics, she worked alongside our Group Procurement, Responsible Sourcing and Ethics teams to build a plan to implement change. As a result of this successful project, a new career pathway will be launched for our agency colleagues, guiding principles to our Distribution Centres, and a Level 3 Apprenticeship is being built for our Agency Supervisors. Well done Rachael!
We would like to wish our very own Rachael good luck after being nominated for the 2018 Rising Stars Retail Awards Graduate of the Year. Rachael shares her experience with us below: “I joined the Tesco Distribution graduate scheme in 2016, my first placement was in Livingston Distribution Centre. Nine months later I was asked to lead a project within Distribution, making sure our colleagues felt secure both contractually and culturally. Since the project I have returned to a Lead Team role as a Shift Manager within one of our Distribution Centres. I have thoroughly enjoyed every part of my time on the Graduate Programme. I have been exposed to a wide range of opportunities outside of my programme. Leading the project within Distribution has by far been my most proud achievement. Being able to implement change across our network of 28 Distribution and Fulfilment Centre’s in order to help positively impact the lives of thousands of colleagues. I can’t imagine getting opportunities of this scale and scope in any other company and feel incredibly proud to work for Tesco.”
