Design Executive

Job Description

In this role, you will actively support the Design team in shaping and delivering worldleading, creative, and innovative design solutions that enhance the experience for our customers, colleagues, and the wider business. You will play a key part in ensuring that design outcomes are not only visually compelling, but also practical, scalable, and aligned to strategic and commercial objectives.

Customer focus sits at the heart of everything you do. You will consistently champion the customer perspective, using insight and feedback to inform design decisions and ensure solutions genuinely meet customer needs while supporting operational efficiency and colleague experience. Through close collaboration, you will help translate ideas into highquality design outcomes that deliver meaningful impact and contribute to a distinctive, bestinclass customer proposition.

• Support Design Managers in the delivery of marketleading retail design projects.
• Apply design expertise, customer insight, trend analysis, and benchmarking to ensure all projects are best in class.
• Work collaboratively with crossfunctional teams across the business to deliver highquality outcomes.
• Define and develop clear, robust project briefs aligned to business and brand objectives.
• Manage and drive design projects endtoend, from initial ideas and concepts through to prototyping, trial implementation, and standardisation.
• Manage external suppliers to develop design solutions in line with agreed project briefs and creative direction.
• Act as a Brand Guardian, ensuring all design outputs are considered, consistent, and aligned to the wider brand and business strategy.
• Identify opportunities for improvement within stores through competitor benchmarking and internal reviews.
• Manage external relationships with suppliers, photographers, and reprographic partners.
• Adhere to the Business Code of Conduct, always acting with integrity, professionalism, and due diligence.
• Continuously develop leadership capability and deepen retail design knowledge and expertise.

• Designing retail environments and brand / graphics
• In-House design team or Design Agency experience
• Working with multifunctional teams to deliver store design projects
• Experience in a fast space retail environment�
• Degree in a design related subject e.g. Interior design, Architecture, �Product design, graphic design, design management

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we�re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone�s welcome. That�s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying