Retail Graduate Manager - Birmingham

Retail Graduate Manager - Birmingham

Apply locations: Kings Heath, Perry Barr, Bordesley Green

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Yesterday

Time left to apply: End Date: January 19, 2025 (30+ days left to apply)

Job requisition id: R-035250

Job Title

Retail Graduate Manager - Birmingham

Location

Kings Heath

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent Graduate (Fixed Term)

Hours Per Week

45

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category

General / Other - SF

Closing Date

18 January 2025

At ASDA, we're always striving for bigger and better ways to grow our reach and help our customers live better lives. New and innovative ideas drive us. We have big ambitions to grow our store portfolio over the next two years across a range of different store formats.

The chance to have responsibility for your own store and become a retail leader of the future is better than ever before.

Our 2025 Retail Graduate Programme has been developed in partnership with the store managers of today, many of whom were on similar graduate programmes, ready for the retail leaders of tomorrow.

“Everything about Asda”

We are a values-led organisation. 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.

“Everything you'll love ”

• Hybrid and flexible working – everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda has it on point.
• 25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares about the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.
• Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours.

Plus much more!

Amanda Green, former Retail Graduate and Store Manager captures the experience perfectly: “I can't think of another high-profile scheme where you are given such an opportunity to build both yourself and your own business side by side.”

This is a fast-paced, two-year learning programme where you'll discover everything store management has to offer. You’ll complete a series of placements within your region, progressing at pace and taking on more accountability every 6 months. You will need to deal with management issues such as disciplinary and grievances, as well as manage rota planning and holidays.

If you have the ambition to be a store manager of the future, the 2-year Retail Graduate Programme will guide you, prepare you, and support you every step of the way. After two years, you’ll be on track to become either an operations manager within a large store or manager of your very own express store.

Store managers are tenacious, hardworking, and determined. But they're also empathetic, caring, and customer-focused. The pedestrian 9-5 doesn't interest them. As part of the store management team, you'll work a rolling rota which will include weekends, evenings, and sometimes late nights.

To succeed, you'll want to get stuck in, being adaptable to change and able to work at pace. You’ll be highly organised and motivated by problem-solving. You’ll be a natural leader, passionate about delighting customers and keeping colleagues motivated and engaged.

We aren't looking for a specific degree, or only those who are graduating in 2025. We're looking for recent graduates who have the right attitude and are looking for a bigger, better career.

Take time to complete your online application. Once we receive 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, including:

• 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 2025.

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.

All candidates must have the continuous right to work in the UK. Any offer of employment is conditional upon this requirement. Asda does not provide sponsorship for our graduate and apprenticeship programmes.

About us

Asda is Reimagining Retail. It’s hard for anyone to imagine how many different career possibilities there are at Asda. Ours is a big business, and beyond the roles you might be familiar with, there are hundreds more you don’t often get to see.