Buying and Merchandising Apprenticeship in Leeds

We’re one of the UK’s leading retailers, and we’re proud to have been recognised as a Top 10 Graduate Employer for Buying & Purchasing roles in The Times Graduate Recruitment Awards 2025. Join us and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of retail.

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 apprenticeship programme, you’ll rotate across different product categories gaining hands-on experience, with all the support you need every step of the way!

What will you be doing?

• As a Buying Apprentice, you’ll be part of the team that plans and selects the products our customers love – both in-store and online.
• Work closely with suppliers to deliver competitive, compelling offers.
• Learn every aspect of the Buying Assistant role, from product selection to pricing and promotions.
• Gain insight into merchandising, stock management, and market trends.

Let’s Find Out About You

We’re looking for apprentices who are:

• Curious and interested in business
• Passionate about retail, the products we offer and customer experience
• Analytical, comfortable working with numbers and detail-oriented
• Great communicators and relationship builders
• Inclusive, honest, and driven to make a difference
• Ambitious and keen to succeed

You’ll study for a Level 4 apprenticeship in Buying and Merchandising (equivalent to a higher BTEC qualification). Delivered over two years through blended learning, the programme combines experience with online learning modules, lectures, and face-to-face tuition. We will of course, cover your costs and make sure you have time off to study.

Requirements:

• 104 UCAS points/ Level 3 qualification
• No formal experience needed, just a willingness to learn
• Basic computer literacy and internet familiarity
• Good communication and collaboration skills

Take time to complete your online application, it really is the best way to make a good first impression. 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

To balance the moments when we need to work together with 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 for 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.