LocationAsda House
Employment TypeFull time
Contract TypePermanent Graduate (Fixed Term)
Hours per Week37.5
Salary
Competitive salary
CategoryGeneral / Other - SF
Closing Date1 January 2026
We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.
Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.
We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
Getting the details right can have a surprisingly big impact, as you'll soon realise when you join our team. In this incredibly fast moving and ever-changing environment, you'll discover exactly how much the little things matter.
A career in Buying offers exciting opportunities to shape the products our customers see every day.
On our 2 year Buying Graduate Programme, you’ll rotate across different categories, gaining hands-on experience in:
Range planning and development
Supplier negotiations and relationship management
Sales tracking and performance analysis
Promotional planning and execution
Competitor and market research
Product lifecycle management
From day one, you’ll support Buyers in making commercial decisions, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring product availability. You’ll be involved in everything from line listing and cost/retail changes to resolving store and supplier queries.
You’ll also contribute to promotional strategies, raise and reconcile invoices, and help shape category performance through data-driven insights.
We’re looking for graduates who are:
Curious and commercially aware
Passionate about retail and customer experience
Analytical and detail-oriented
Great communicators and relationship builders
Inclusive, honest, and driven to make a difference
Ambitious to lead and develop others
Take time to complete your online application, it really is the best way to make a good first impression. Once we received your application, we use a range of techniques to narrow down the field and help us find our ideal candidates.
If you are successful at each stage, you will progress to the next. This will include:
A short, blended personality and numerical assessment
Three, quick video interview questions
A half-day assessment centre, where you will meet the team and find out more about the programme.
If you are successful, we will ask you to come and join ASDA in September 2026.
Applications may close before the deadline so please register your interest as soon as possible.
We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.
All candidates must have the continuous right to work in the UK and any offer of employment is conditional upon this requirement. Asda do not provide sponsorship for our graduate and apprenticeship programmes.
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It’s hard for anyone to imagine just how many different career possibilities there are at Asda. Ours is a big business, and beyond the roles you might be familiar with on the shop floor (or on your doorstep), there are hundreds of others you don’t get to see.
In fact, because our business is changing so rapidly, there are new roles being created at Asda all the time. Technology is changing how we do things every day, helping us to reimagine retail to make life better for our customers, in-store and online.
For those with imagination, can-do, integrity and a willingness to embrace change, the possibilities at Asda are limitless. Take a look around and see where a career at Asda could take you.
