Property Graduate ProgrammeEarly Careers

Asda’s 2-year Property Graduate Programme offers you the opportunity to experience different specialisms within our Property function including store design and planning, cost and programme management, and implementation. You’ll gain a breadth of experience, opening the door to various possibilities.

“Everything about Asda”

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 do over £300m worth of transactions in our stores each week and our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 140,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

“Everything you'll love”

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.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.

“Find your role”

A career in Property can offer many opportunities:

· Our Store Design and Planning teams have the exciting task of designing our stores of the future, ensuring Asda deliver the best shopping experience for our customers and ensuring operational excellence for our colleagues.

· In our Implementation teams, we work hard to build new stores, roll out store upgrades and deliver large scale asset replacement programmes across our retail and distribution locations, working closely with an extensive network of contractors, consultants and subject matter experts.

· Our Commercial and PMO team develops subject matter expertise in Quantity Surveying and Programme Management to ensure projects are delivered efficiently and cost effectively.

From day 1 on our 2-year Property Graduate Programme you’ll be exposed to a fast paced, dynamic retail environment, exploring the different areas of Property. You’ll get the opportunity to visit sites across our estate and gain insight into the importance of Property as a key function to deliver for our customers and colleagues. With the variety of rotations, you’ll truly understand the lifecycle of Property projects, providing excellent experience and options at the end of the programme.

Supported throughout by senior mentors, buddies and internal development, there will be the opportunity to undertake an external qualification, relevant to your area of interest/ experience.

This is an ambitious programme where you will progress at pace but equally be supported and rewarded throughout. By the end of the programme, you’ll have all the tools you need to step into a managerial position, but your development won’t stop there. Beyond this we will continue to support your development and progression at Asda.

It’s an amazing time to join the Property function which is central to delivering change and growth for Asda.

“Let’s find out about you.”

You might be a recent graduate in Business, Economics, Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, Retail Design or a related discipline, or you may have an interest or experience in a retail or construction environment. Either way, you’re excited by the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same.

Key Criteria:

· Minimum 2:2 degree across any subject area

· Right to work within the UK and have been resident in the UK, the British Overseas Territories, or Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man)

In addition, you’ll be:

· Commercially aware, with a passion for solving problems

· A confident communicator who can build strong relationships across teams

· Organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities

· A team player with a proactive mindset and a drive to make things better

· Eager to learn and grow in a dynamic, ever-changing environment

· Comfortable working with data and drawing insights to support decisions

“Find your everything at Asda”

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.