Online Internship 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

Our online business is one of the largest online food businesses in the world, with over 1 million customers having their shopping delivered to their door or collected from one of our 500+ Click+Collect locations every week.

We’re focussed on making online shopping easy, saving customers time for the things that matter most to them. We do this through improving the experience of our customers, helping them to build their baskets with ease on our app, website and making sure we fulfil their orders perfectly every time they shop with us.

We work in cross-functional teams, focussing on different aspects of the online customer experience and fulfilment operation. You could be working in our Whoosh team, growing and improving our rapid delivery service, or in our Automation team, using the latest technology to speed up how we pick orders for customers. There’s also our Marketplace team, helping to offer customers a bigger range of products alongside their weekly food shop plus our Post-order Experience team that continually gives customers the best service possible at the doorstep or when they collect from our stores.

You will be responsible for

During your 10-week paid programme, we’ll give you real-life experience in an area of Online. You’ll also get the chance to experience working across the business, linking in with other areas to make sure our customers get the best experience possible. Plus, you’ll have a buddy on hand to support you all the way.

You’ll be supported through your programme with a variety of learning that will build your skills and develop your knowledge. It will be a mix of leadership training, networking and time with our Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) networks and leadership team​.

A successful internship with us can guarantee your place on our Online Graduate Programme when you graduate - before you’ve even started your final year of study.

You will need

We’re looking for interns with a passion for online. It’s not essential that you have any previous experience but it definitely helps if you can think creatively and use logic to help improve our service for customers.

You are on track for a 2.2 or above

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.