Position summary

Tesco is hiring a Head of Sustainable Diets (maternity cover) to build and deliver the UK Sustainable Diets strategy and support the strategies across other group markets, including ROI, Central Europe, and Booker. Reporting into the Group Sustainability Director as a member of the Sustainability Leadership Team, you will lead the communication and engagement of the strategy across the business and review and measure progress against goals and commitments.

Why this role matters

Shifting diets toward more sustainable choices is a core part of Tesco’s Group Planet Plan and Health strategy, with impact across millions of customers. This role owns that agenda, turning strategy into delivery plans and embedding sustainable diets as a business priority across categories, customer, and communications.

Key responsibilities

• Develop the strategy by creating the short, medium, and long-term sustainable diets strategy and action plan alongside the wider Group Planet Plan and Health strategy.
• Engage and communicate the strategy across the business, influencing to ensure sustainable diets is a key priority where relevant.
• Drive delivery by working with stakeholders across Health, Commercial, Customer, Insight, and Comms, and leading a cross-functional groupwide team to deliver the diets strategy and plan.
• Enable teams with data so they can build, forecast, deliver, and measure their plans.
• Review and report progress against the strategy, and disclose accurate progress against internal and external commitments.
• Engage external partners including investors, charity partners, foundations, academia, industry partners, and suppliers on the diet-shift strategy and progress.
• Develop the team in line with the Winning Behaviours.

Team and stakeholders

You will report to the Group Sustainability Director on the Sustainability Leadership Team, lead a cross-functional groupwide team, and work closely with Categories, Customer, Insight, Comms, Health, and Commercial teams, plus external partners.

Key details

This is a full-time (36 hours), hybrid maternity-cover role based in Welwyn Garden City, with around 60% of the week in office or on-site. The package includes an annual bonus of up to 45% of base salary and a car cash allowance.

Requirements

• 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, using customer, market, and performance data to shape strategy and inform decisions.
• A track record of leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders in a complex organisation.
• Excellent communication and engagement skills, bringing colleagues on a journey and driving alignment behind a shared vision.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution to deliver meaningful impact.