Head Office

Digital & IT

Wherever you work in Asda, you’ll find technology everywhere. From the moment it’s an idea, a product passes through an amazing array of gadgets before it reaches our customers’ homes. With it being so important, it’s just smart to have some technology gurus that can make sure everything’s running smoothly. And with your expert knowledge, you’ll support our colleagues, helping them understand technology without having to use overcomplicated jargon. Whether you’re designing our website, supporting our e-commerce operations or running our IT equipment, you’ll always be looking for digital ways to make Asda better.

Buying

At Asda, we’ve become pretty famous for offering brilliant brands at affordable prices. How do we do it? Well, we can’t give you all our secrets. But we can tell you about some of the people who make it happen: our Buyers. They spend their days spotting trends, working on global deals with Walmart, and creating strong partnerships with the brilliant suppliers they find. Not only does it improve the relationships we have with our suppliers, it means we can negotiate the best deals, making savings that we can pass onto our customers. But at Asda, we don’t just focus on cheap. Because what costs the least amount of money might not always be the best. So our Buyers work hard to get that balance of quality and value just right. With over 100 categories across Food and Home & Leisure, profits and losses are controlled to perfection. It’s fast, busy, creative. And helps everyone to live better.

Finance

We’re here to save people money so they can live better. It’s that simple really, but the numbers that go on behind the scenes are quite incredible. So our Finance team is made up of three separate areas – Financial Controllership, Commercial Finance and Internal Audit. Whatever department you choose, you’ll be helping us become the country’s most trusted retailer by practicing ethical, transparent and responsible finance.  

HR

At Asda, we’ve always been known for our progressive People Policies. In fact, it’s made our HR department a Centre of Excellence, full of experts in their fields. Whether we’re finding the finest retail professionals, engaging our current crop of colleagues or crafting the finest rewards available, we’re doing it the right way. And, by working with our HR Business Partners, we ensure every colleague feels looked after. However, as part of the Walmart family, we also have access to some of the best specialist and global support in the world. So whatever your HR expertise, this is the perfect place to put your knowledge to the test. Because with over 180,000 colleagues across our diverse business, it takes someone who just loves discovering and designing an even better future for HR.

Legal & Compliance

While we still sell fresh fruit and veg, we’re so much more than just a supermarket. So as you can imagine, there’s a lot to make sure we’re doing right. Which is where the Asda Legal and Compliance colleagues come in. With areas in corporate law, supporting Buyers, employment law and more, our Legal team is full of highly qualified solicitors who ensure everything is running the way it should be. While our Compliance team makes sure that all of our colleagues Do The Right Thing, every single day. It takes a collection of subject matter specialists, focusing on areas such as anti-money laundering, trade, health and wellness, environment, food safety, anti-corruption and more. With both departments working closely with Walmart, you’ll find Asda is a great place to enjoy a rewarding Legal and Compliance career.

Marketing & PR

Marketing:

From saving customers money, raising huge amounts of cash for charities and creating new initiatives for our colleagues, there’s a lot to shout about. It’s no surprise then that our UK marketing team has been recognised as a ‘centre of excellence’, making us a kind of  ‘Academy’ for the whole of Walmart. It’s a pretty good place to put your communication credentials to the test. Because whether you’re launching a new product or working on our latest advertising campaign, you’ll strengthen the Asda brand every day.

PR:

There’s so much more to Asda PR than responding to the daily requests from journalists. It’s also about letting the world know what we’re up to, from the weird through to the wonderful. If you know Asda, you know there’s a lot of both. It’s a great place to further your PR proficiencies. In fact, the work our team do as guardians of Asda’s reputation is often highly thought of by independent evaluation agencies. All you need is a strong understanding of PR to keep us in the mind of our customers across the country.

Property & Construction

Asda is more than just a supermarket. It’s a second home to the community, full of products that help them save money and live better. Which is why it takes a team of fully dedicated property and construction pros to expand and update our stores. And because we care about the environment, you’ll do it in the most cost effective, ethical and sustainable way possible. It’s quite impressive when you think about it. You have to find the right location, buy it and then build the whole store. And then, after all that, there’s how high you’ll hold your head when you see the entire community living better in something you help put together. Amazing.

Central Operations

In Central Operations, our colleagues turn Head Office ideas into Asda reality. It’s a lot of work. Which is why we have individual teams dedicated to prevention, process, innovations, wage planning, and retail operations. In every team, you’ll find specialists with a determined focus on different areas of the business. They make sure that every new idea, process, product and decision makes its way across our organisation. It takes people who can truly understand how others work across a retail operation like Asda. Because whether it’s a store innovation, change to products, a sustainability programme, a new HR procedure, or anything else, you’ll help everyone get it right first time. And if you do it well, you’ll keep Asda moving forward to perfection, without anyone noticing. They’ll just be too busy living better because of you.

Supply Chain & Merchandise

We’re really not into waste. Of any kind. It costs a lot of money and doesn’t exactly help our lovely environment. So it’s pretty important that our Supply and Merchandise Planning colleagues get that balance absolutely right. You’ll need to be good with people, numbers and analytics to discover exactly what the customers need from us. Before they even know.

Product Development

Save money. Live better. It’s our promise. But we don’t want to stop there. Our sights are also set on becoming the country’s most trusted retailer. So we have to deliver on our promises every single day. Which is why everything we sell can’t only be affordable, they have to be of the highest quality. Whether you’re developing amazing new products or testing our current range, you’ll use your expert skills to make sure all of our products are safe, legal and better than ‘good enough’. By focusing on either Home & Leisure or Food, you’ll ensure that everything hitting our shelves reaches the standards we set. And as a top UK retailer, we’ll give you all of the brilliant learning, development, benefits and opportunities to give your career the same quality.