HSC Commercial is an exciting addition to the existing teams within Tesco HSC and currently close to 400 people are associated with the service team, and growing. The HSC Commercial division in Tesco is responsible for the sales, revenues and margins for all the different categories across food, clothing and hardlines (which include media, appliances, furniture and papershop). The HSC Commercial domain is at the heart of our retail business where teams are responsible for generating margins keeping in mind our customer promises of "I can get what I want" and "The prices are right". The functions within the commercial division include range planning, forecasting, buying, international sourcing, supplier management, stock/availability management, corporate purchasing/procurement, analytics and marketing.

At HSC Commercial, we support UK, Ireland and Central European business in buying, merchandising, marketing, trading laws and technical, corporate purchasing and international sourcing functions and help them put in place best-in-class processes that enable better inventory/stock management, procurement, pricing, promotions, supplier management, trade analytics and critical path management enabling our business to improve sales and margin. The HSC Commercial team supports both stores and online businesses (catalogue and direct).

The key buying and merchandising activities carried out at HSC Commercial are:
	Product setup/master data management
	Order management
	Promotions and mark down management
	Controlling over/under charge (cost and pricing issues)
	Business reporting and analysis
	Marketing
	Stock control and replenishment
	Stock availability
	Supplier performance and relationship management

Given the critical and core nature of jobs carried out within Commercial, we have a dedicated support structure to help us with quality, training and transition. We also have a constantly updated repository of best practices across the business that helps us serve our customers better each and every time.

The team's understanding of the retail business, various project delivery methodologies and process improvement initiatives have helped achieve rapid growth at Tesco HSC and created a scalable platform to provide business value across the Tesco business worldwide.