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Vacancy type: Early careers

Scheme: Graduate Scheme

Contract Type: Permanent

Position Type: Full-Time

Scheme Location: Nationwide

Intake year: 2026

About the role

Our three-year Retail graduate programme will ensure you gain a breadth of valuable retail experience early in your career. You’ll have the opportunity to work in different store formats, from our small Express stores to our large Extra stores, as well as a Distribution Centre (DC) or Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC). Through diverse placements, plus a head office project, you’ll see how different parts of the business work hand-in-hand to serve customers a little better every day.

Colleagues in our stores are making a difference for customers with a friendly, flexible approach, while DC and CFC colleagues make sure customers can get the right products, at the right time, and at the level of quality they’ve come to expect from us. As a Retail graduate, you’ll be understanding what matters for our customers and inspiring a team of colleagues to put customers at the heart of everything we do. We’ll support you in gaining vital management skills to help you lead and develop your team.

Serving millions of customers a week in our stores, our graduate roles aren’t just about having a passion for our products and motivating a team to deliver complex tasks! It’s about understanding what matters for our customers and communities to put them at the heart of everything we do.

Salary: £30,983
Programme start date: 7 September 2026

What is in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click here to find out more!

  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
  • 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
  • Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

You will be responsible for

During your programme, you’ll first start off by spending time in our small and large stores getting to know our different departments, learning our routines and processes, and getting hands on experience to understand how we run our stores. We’ll then provide you with all the leadership development training you’ll need to get stuck in, overcome daily challenges and take on your first leadership responsibility, plus you’ll have a mentor on hand to support you all the way.

As you move through the programme, you’ll gain a breadth of valuable retail experience as you look at how different parts of our business operate, from working in our fulfilment centres and support office, to working in one of our transformation teams or being part of our distribution team.

By the end of your programme you will have gained all the necessary skills and knowledge you need to set you up for success to become a store manager. Once you become a store manager your journey doesn’t stop there, as this gives a great foundation to accelerate your career to become a senior leader in our business.

Working in our stores, DCs and CFCs

For each of your three roles, we’ll place you in a store, DC or CFC that maximises your opportunity for development. To support you getting a breadth of experience, you might need to re-locate after six months, and again after your first year.

You will need

We’re looking for our future leaders, who are committed to building the skills and business understanding to co-pilot the business to deliver value for customers, colleagues, and shareholders.

We’re looking for individuals that are curious in their thinking and brave in their application, whilst operating with a 20/80 mindset. We’re a people business where believing in each other underpins our success.

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.