Buying Graduate Programme

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 conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do. 

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.

Getting the details right can have a surprisingly big impact, as you'll soon realise when you join our team. In this incredibly fast moving and ever-changing environment, you'll discover exactly how much the little things matter.  

A career in Buying offers exciting opportunities to shape the products our customers see every day.

On our 2 year Buying Graduate Programme, you’ll rotate across different categories, gaining hands-on experience in: 

• Range planning and development 

• Supplier negotiations and relationship management 

• Sales tracking and performance analysis 

• Promotional planning and execution 

• Competitor and market research 

• Product lifecycle management 

From day one, you’ll support Buyers in making commercial decisions, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring product availability. You’ll be involved in everything from line listing and cost/retail changes to resolving store and supplier queries. 

You’ll also contribute to promotional strategies, raise and reconcile invoices, and help shape category performance through data-driven insights. 

We’re looking for graduates who are: 

• Curious and commercially aware 

• Passionate about retail and customer experience 

• Analytical and detail-oriented 

• Great communicators and relationship builders 

• Inclusive, honest, and driven to make a difference 

• Ambitious to lead and develop others 

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.