Supply Chain and Logistics Graduate Programme
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Job summary
ASDA is offering a Supply Chain and Logistics Graduate role based in Leeds. The programme provides a structured development journey across forecasting, planning, and end-to-end logistics, with rotations through central logistics and store operations.
You will rotate across placements, gaining hands-on experience in buying, modular planning, replenishment, and delivery, while supporting project and process improvements.
Qualifications
- Recent graduate in Business, Economics, Supply Chain or related discipline.
- Interest or experience in retail, logistics or planning environment.
- Comfortable working in a data-driven environment and drawing insights.
Responsibilities
- Forecasting and planning across supply chain activities.
- Participate in store openings and seasonal supply strategies.
- Drive cost-saving initiatives and process improvements in logistics.
- Provide PMO support and maintain visibility of project portfolio.
- Analyze warehouse capacity data to inform decisions and discussions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver key projects.
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Job description
- Contract Type: Permanent Graduate (Fixed Term)
- Closing Date: 27 December 2026
- Job Reference Code: R-105816
- Employment Type: Full time
- Contract Type: Permanent Graduate (Fixed Term)
- Hours per Week: 37.5
- Salary: Competitive salary
- Closing Date: 27 December 2026
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 mean 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 of 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.
- 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.
Our Supply Chain & Logistics Graduate role offers a structured development journey, giving you the opportunity to build expertise across multiple areas of the supply chain while gaining insight into the full end-to-end operation. From forecasting and planning to logistics execution, you'll work on real business challenges, develop valuable skills, and complete a CILT-endorsed programme to support your professional development.
You’ll spend a total of 24 months rotating across 4 placements. Starting with a 12-month placement in Asda Logistics Services, working within central logistics on two 6-month rotations where you'll gain hands‑on experience working closely with operational and non‑operational logistics teams. You will then complete 12 months in a supply role, working closely with Buying, Modular Planning, and Replenishment on two 6-month rotations, to ensure product availability, cost efficiency, and innovation.
Alongside your rotations, you'll spend time working in our stores to understand the end-to-end customer journey and see first‑hand how supply chain and logistics decisions impact both store operations and the experience of millions of customers every day.
- Forecasting and demand planning to ensure accurate stock levels across categories
- Supporting new store openings and seasonal events with tailored supply strategies
- Driving cost‑saving initiatives and process improvements across the supply chain
- Project, programme and PMO support ensuring tracking of projects is clear, all risks documented, milestone plans agreed and monitored. Full visibility of the portfolio to circulate to senior leadership teams across Asda
- Conduct analysis of warehouse capacity data and use findings to lead discussions and support strategic decisions in meetings and project work
- Collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver business‑critical projects
- Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships to drive collaboration and deliver on key deadlines
You might be a recent graduate in Business, Economics, Supply Chain, or a related discipline, or you may have an interest or experience in a retail, logistics, or planning environment. Either way, you’re excited by the challenge of working in a fast‑paced, data‑driven environment where no two days are the same.
- Commercially aware, with a passion for solving problems
- Comfortable working with large datasets and drawing insights to support decisions
- 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
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are passionate about creating opportunities for everyone to thrive.
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 2027. You will need to work a minimum of three days per week in Asda House, Leeds. The three‑day office attendance requirement may vary based on the specific team and its operational requirements.
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.
Great Wilson Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, LS11 5AD
We’re a really values‑led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone’s input. We get on with things, we make them happen. As so many people across the UK rely on us, we have to.
Our Creating Change for Better programme tackles the major challenges facing our business and society today and guides our efforts on where we can make the biggest difference by reducing our environmental footprint, creating healthier products and supporting our communities.
Big businesses like ours offer big opportunities. With more than 1,000 stores across the UK, from superstores and Asda Living to petrol stations, as well as depots and Express stores. £60m+ in revenue taken every day. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles 2 million transactions a month. And 75% of the UK shop in Asda every year.
- 10% off Asda pet insurance
- 10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services
- 10% off Asda Tyres
- 10% off Asda Travel insurance
- 20% off Asda Mobile bundles
Available to you, your partner, and your children, 24/7, year round.
Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.
Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.
15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.
Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.
Whether you’re a first‑time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one of the UKs largest mortgage brokers.
Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.
Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.
Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.
Head to our in‑store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.
Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.
Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.
From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.
Access free mental health support for you and your family.
If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.
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. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
Access to hundreds of high‑street discounted vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more.
As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.
All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.
Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).
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