Retail Degree Apprenticeship

Summary

We love providing over 9 million customers every week with good quality fresh food and a great shopping experience they won't find anywhere else. On our 3-year Retail Degree Apprenticeship, you'll work towards a degree while preparing for a brilliant management career within our unique food retail business.

Wage

Competitive

Competitive wage offered

Training course

Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)

Hours

As the fast-paced world of retail isn’t 9.00am - 5.00pm, this role involves early starts, late finishes, night shifts and working weekends and Bank Holidays. It’s hard work for sure. But it’s also very rewarding.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 1 September 2027

Duration

3 years

Positions available

10

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Get an early taste of leadership by taking on responsibility for a team of colleagues within a department. Experience all areas of our stores, gaining an overview of its operation and helping to keep our stores running smoothly. Day-to-day tasks that you will be responsible for could include:  

• Ensuring the store is set up to the best standard to drive sales and continue delivering a great customer experience  
• Spending time with other colleagues to understand each area of our stores and the part they play  
• Supporting live business projects to develop project management skills  
• Learning about our store trading operations and systems 

Where you'll work

You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.

This apprenticeship is available in these locations:

• 224 Bessingby Road, Bridlington, YO16 4SH
• Cepen Park North, Chippenham, SN14 6UZ
• Sutton Road, Maidstone, ME15 9NN
• 7 Irwell Place, Eccles, Manchester, M30 0FH
• Woodhouse Centre, High Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, Mansfield, NG19 8AN
• 699 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GY
• Cheam Road, Sutton, SM1 1DD
• Collingwood Centre, Preston North Road, Tynemouth North Shields, NE29 9QR
• Wharton Road, Winsford, CW7 3BB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD

Training course

Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Support the development of organisational strategies and plans. Develop and deliver operational plans; being able to set targets and KPIs, manage resources, and monitor and measure outcomes to establish operational effectiveness, efficiencies and excellence.   Produce reports that clearly present information and data, using a range of interpretation and analytical processes.  Gain wide support to deliver successful outcomes
• Plan, organise and manage resources in order to achieve organisational goals.  Identify key outcomes, develop and implement plans and monitor progress, and provide reports as required.  Proactively identify risk and create plans for their mitigation. Able to initiate, lead and drive change within the organisation, identifying barriers/challenges and how to overcome them. Ability to use widely recognised project management tools
• Managing budgets, controlling expenditure and production of financial reports
• Use of customer insight and analysis of data to determine and drive customer service outcomes and improve customer relationships.  Creative approaches to developing solutions to meet customer need
• Able to identify service/organisational improvements and opportunities for innovation and growth, using qualitative and quantitative analysis of information and data and benchmarking against others
• Communicate clearly, effectively and regularly using oral, written and digital channels and platforms.  Use active listening and open questioning to structure conversations and discussions, and able to challenge when appropriate.  Manage and chair meetings and clearly present actions and outcomes. Ability to apply influencing and persuading skills, to the dynamics and politics of personal interactions
• Able to articulate organisational purpose and values.  Support the creation of an inclusive, high performance work culture. Enable others to achieve by developing and supporting them through coaching and mentoring
• Able to build teams, empower and motivate others to improve performance or achieve outcomes.  Able to delegate to others, provide clear guidance and monitor progress. Ability to set goals and accountabilities
• Able to build rapport and trust, develop networks and maintain relationships with people from a range of cultures, backgrounds and levels.  Able to contribute within a team environment.  Effectively influence and negotiate, being able to have challenging conversations and give constructive feedback.  Work collaboratively with internal and external customers and suppliers
• Able to reflect on own performance, identifying and acting on learning and development needs. Ability to understand impact on others.  Can manage stress and personal well-being, and confident in knowing core values and drivers
• Able to create personal development plan, and use widely recognised tools and techniques to ensure the management of time and pressure effectively, and prioritisation and strategic alignment of activities
• Use evidence-based tools and ethical approaches to undertake problem solving and critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation to support decision making

Training schedule

As well as learning on-the-job, you’ll also be studying towards a Bsc (Hons) in Chartered Management at the University of Bradford. Balancing work and a degree course will be challenging, so to support your learning, we'll offer study leave to complete university work stress-free.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade Grade 4)
• Maths (grade Grade 4)

UCAS Points in:

Any (grade 112 UCAS Points)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Customer care skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Team working
• Initiative