Retail Graduate Programme

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving.  And helps make every day a little better for you and your family.  These include but are not limited to:

• Colleague bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here 
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

Serving millions of customers a week in our stores, our graduate roles aren’t just about having a passion for our products and motivating a team to deliver complex tasks!  It’s about understanding what matters for our customers and communities to put them at the heart of everything we do.

You will be responsible for

During your programme, you’ll first start off by spending time in our small and large stores getting to know our different departments, learning our routines and processes, and getting hands on experience to understand how we run our stores. We’ll then provide you with all the leadership development training you’ll need to get stuck in, overcome daily challenges and take on your first leadership responsibility, plus you’ll have a mentor on hand to support you all the way.

As you move through the programme, you’ll gain a breadth of valuable retail experience as you look at how different parts of our business operate, from working in our fulfilment centres and support office, to working in one of our transformation teams or being part of our distribution team.

By the end of your programme you will have gained all the necessary skills and knowledge you need to set you up for success to become a store manager.  Once you become a store manager your journey doesn’t stop there, as this gives a great foundation to accelerate your career to become a senior leader in our business.

You will need

On track for a 2:2 

We’re looking for people who love a challenge, can think on their feet and have a passion for retail. The real success in this role will come from working as part of a team as well getting to know and serving our customers and colleagues.

Sounds like the programme for you? Click here to read about our Application Process and let us know if you need support.

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.