Career Paths

More room to find your own way.
That’s more like it.

What keeps people with Asda for long careers? The fact that you can do just about anything here – and that can take you anywhere you want to go.

When it comes to what you can achieve, we’re on another scale here at Asda. With incredibly diverse and fluid career routes, you could go from store assistant to managing your own store, or working for our Home Office team. We’ve got colleagues that have gone from Finance, to Operations, then over to Buying and HR. So if you’ve got the drive, it can take you across the business – whether it’s up, across, or into a completely new area. And we’re all about supporting you on that journey.

Here’s some of the paths you could take…

Retail

Let’s say you start out as an Hourly Colleague in one of our stores. Your journey could look like…

Hourly Colleague

As an hourly colleague you will work at the very heart of our stores, whether that is as a Store Assistant serving our customers, as a Stock Replenisher ensuring our customers are able to get all of their essentials or behind the scenes looking after our online orders. Whatever your role in store, you will put our customers at the heart of all you do.
Section Leader

You’re first step into Leadership, as a Section Leader you’ll be the first point of contact for your team. Assisting them with training, ensuring colleagues are in the right place at the right time to meet our customers expectations. If you are looking for a chance to develop in retail, this could be the role for you.
Section Manager

As a Section Manager, you'll motivate your Section Leaders and colleagues to deliver the best standards across your section, maximising availability and driving sales. An eye for detail is key, alongside maintaining shop floor standards and coaching your team to do the same.
Trading Manager

As a Trading Manager you will be responsible for driving sales and standards across your area, ensuring our products are available for our customers every day. Providing a great shopping experience for our customers should be at the heart of all you do alongside developing a team to excel.
Operations Manager

Within this role you will have overall accountability for the leadership and profitability of our online operation, the food hall, nights and warehouse operations. Delivering the highest operational standards will be at the heart of all you do, whilst driving a high performing team.
General Store Manager

Working with a team of managers and up to 500 colleagues, you will lead from the front to drive sales, set standards, deliver KRA’s and to put our values at the forefront of all you do. You will create an operation that keeps customers coming back every time.

There's always doors open to career development if you want it. You do have to be self-motivated to progress your own development, but the opportunities are there and you get out of it what you're putting in.

Rachael,

General Store Manager

ALS

If you join us as a Warehouse Colleague, your path could be…

Warehouse Colleague

Our warehouse teams pick and organise the right products to make sure they all get to the right stores at the right time. It's a vital part of our supply chain and it makes for fast-moving, busy and varied work. If you’re looking for a chance to develop in logistics this could be the role for you.
Department Manager

You’ll focus on building your technical ability and operational competence through a mix of hands-on experience and dedicated training sessions. So you can fast-track your career development and step into your new role at the end of it.
Shift Manager

Within this role you’ll focus on building your skills and pick up new ones through a mix of hands-on experience and dedicated training sessions. So you can fast-track your career development and focus on the next step in your career journey at Asda.
Operations Manager

As an aspiring Operations Manager you can develop your leadership skills, as well as your confidence in your key areas through a mix of hands-on experience and dedicated training sessions. So you can fast-track your career development and step into your new role at the end of it.
General Manager

Build your knowledge, grow your experience, and stretch your thinking in our development programme, Activate, that’s shaped around your personal experience and development needs. So you have the tools and opportunities you need to step into your next role when the time is right.
Senior Director

Stretch your thinking and grow your skills through our accelerated development programme, Accelerate – a truly personalised learning experience designed to give you everything you need to lead in a constantly changing workplace. So you can inspire your teams in your next role.

Everything is possible. It's a very diverse culture. I want to go higher within the business - I've tried retailing and now warehousing, and I've been able to achieve.

Simona,

Department Manager

Transport

When you become part of our Transport teams, your road map could look like…

Transport Colleague

Your first step into the world of logistics and there is no better place to learn how transport literally keeps Asda moving and helps us feed the nation. You will be at the heart of our depots.
HGV Driver

Spend up to 12 months working towards your Class One HGV licence. Your instructor will regularly check-in with you to offer guidance and support as you build your technical ability and competence through hands-on learning. And when your applications and medicals are completed, you’ll be ready for your new role.
Shift Manager

Within this role you’ll focus on building your skills and pick up new ones through a mix of hands-on experience and dedicated training sessions. So when the time is right you can focus on the next step in your career journey at Asda.
Operations Manager

As an aspiring Operations Manager you can develop your leadership skills, as well as your confidence in your key areas through a mix of hands-on experience and dedicated training sessions. So you can fast-track your career development and step into your new role at the end of it.
General Manager

Build your knowledge, grow your experience, and stretch your thinking in our 12 month development programme, Activate, that’s shaped around your personal experience and development needs. So you have the tools and opportunities you need to step into your next role when the time is right.
Senior Director

Stretch your thinking and grow your skills through our accelerated development programme, Accelerate – a truly personalised learning experience designed to give you everything you need to lead in a constantly changing workplace. So you can inspire your teams in your next role.

The work suits my lifestyle and I really enjoy it. The team I work with are absolutely fantastic! The benefits are great, too - especially the pension.

Gill,

HGV Driver

Finance

When you become part of our Finance teams, your progression route could look like this… And we also offer study support for CIMA qualification.

Assistant Accountant

As an Assistant Accountant, you'll be pivotal to ensuring that our corporate and business strategies are supported by the very best financial accounting and control processes – and that these processes continually maximise our profitability and efficiency.
Commercial Finance Analyst

As a Commercial Finance Analyst you will develop and implement Business Intelligence innovations to create value for the business. There is a heavy focus on innovative thinking and providing insight and recommendations to the leadership team.
Commercial Finance Manager

Our Commercial Finance Managers develop their commercial awareness to know the business, know the market and know what will make a difference. They understand both the internal and external commercial, operational & financial dynamics of the business and identify with the Asda customer and where to focus to create value.
Senior Commercial Finance Manager

A Senior Commercial Finance Manager is a commercial and analytical role where you will require strong influencing and networking skills across different levels and is an active member of the Commercial and Finance Leadership teams. It’s a high-profile role with a focus on driving a Commercial Finance team to help deliver against the vision and shape Asda's future strategy.

Buying

When you become part of our Buying teams, you could progress like this...

Buying Assistant

Supporting our Buyers with everything from daily sales and profit reports to admin support, marketing, and sales tracking and analysis.
Buyer

Whether it’s home essentials, fashion, or groceries, our Buyers work to really understand what our customers need, now and in the future, and negotiate the best value we can offer for them.
Buying Manager

Negotiating with some of the biggest brands as well as nurturing smaller suppliers to develop strategies that deliver sales, profit, and growth.
Senior Buying Manager

Collaborating with key suppliers and internal stakeholders alike to deliver cost-to-serve programmes and drive great value for our customers.

The role is really varied and diverse. You get involved in so many different things! Everyone is so supportive and really cares about your personal development.

Hayley,

Buying Manager

Data

See where a career journey might take you in our Data team...

Market Analyst

Geospatial analyst role part of the Market Development team, this involves insight and analytics using market and spatial data.
Optimisation Manager

Part of Market Development, as well as continuing to work on insight and analytics, responsible for building the Geospatial reporting suite and platform for the Property function.
Senior Manager – Measurement Science

Here the team are responsible for the analysis and strategic governance of trial measurement. We use a series of analytical tools to measure the impact of activity across our business. We then work closely with business stakeholders, to help them understand the impact of activity and whether this is generating value for the business.
Senior Manager – Market Development

Leading the Market Development team, this involves supporting the business with geospatial insight, analytics and data products as well as development of sales forecasting models using for location planning and new space.