Company: Tesco
Position: Property Design Graduate (Sept 2010 intake)
Location: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Salary: 25k
Benefits: Excellent Training and Benefits

COMPANY:
Careers at Tesco come in many different forms, which is just what you'd expect from a successful and varied business like theirs. And with over 350,000 employees in 14 countries and almost 2,000 stores in the UK alone, they can offer the kind of diversity of opportunity that you're unlikely to find anywhere else.

Their Property department grows sales and profit through new space and asset utilitisation. Architects, designers, builders, engineers and many more experts in their Property Division work together to create stores that delight customers and staff alike. However, as important as their property assets are to them, they value their people even more, and believe in finding, training and retaining the best.

ROLE:
Property Design focus on the layout internally and externally of their stores, focus on the look and feel to make the customer shopping experience better simpler and cheaper. You could be reviewing access to sites right through to what products flow best in the shopping trip. They link to many other departments within and external to Tesco and your week could involve visiting stores in construction to working with the formats team on new concepts. That would involve liaising with their main contractors, architects and quantity surveyors, as well as retail colleagues. You’ll be exposed to the latest thinking in format design, and will be expected to find solutions for a variety of challenges linked to different store formats or building shapes.

The programme will involve hands on experience planning stores, visiting sites and understanding the process.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
a) 2:1 (or expected) Design Related Degree.
b) A passion and drive for working in a Property and Retail environment.
c) The ability to work well in a team with a range of professionals.
d) The character to enjoy a fast-paced life.

You may have experience in the following roles: Architectural Design, Building Design, Construction Design, Consumer Product Design, Interior Design, Corporate Design, Creative Product Design, Design Management, Design Technology, Integrated Industrial Design, Product Design Development, Product Design Manufacturing, etc

This vacancy is being advertised by EasyWebRecruitment, the UK’s leading Flat Fee Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by EasyWebRecruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role. Ref: EWR 38828