RETAIL GRADUATE PROGRAMME

You’ll dive straight into the heart of our stores, getting close to customers and colleagues to understand the routines and processes that make our stores exceptional. With your sleeves rolled up, you’ll work across every department, gaining hands-on experience in the seamless running of our stores. You’ll then be fully prepared to take on your first Team Manager position.

Beyond the shop floor, you’ll gain insight into other vital parts of our business. This will give you the best possible grounding to become a Deputy or Store Manager.

It’s not about having a specific degree. It’s about curiosity, a passion for retail and M&S, and the drive to dive into challenges headfirst. This is a non-stop role, so you’ll need to enjoy getting hands-on, be ready to work at pace, and quick to adapt in our fast-moving industry.

Alongside that, you'll thrive if you can:

• bring an ambition to lead and make things happen.
• build strong relationships with customers and colleagues
• embrace responsibility and always aim higher
• keep calm under pressure and juggle multiple demands.

This programme is designed to give you the elevated skills, commercial awareness, and understanding of our business to become a Store Leader with big impact.

By the end of the programme, you’ll be a Store Manager. From there, the sky’s the limit. This programme opens doors to bigger challenges, whether that’s managing larger stores, exploring roles in different parts of the business, or even taking your career overseas.

We’re one of the UK’s most exciting and iconic retailers.

We've built our reputation on quality, value and innovation, creating food, fashion, and shopping experiences that excite people. And it shows, with over 32 million customers and new stores continuing to open across the nation. This doesn’t happen without our in-store teams, helping to bring the M&S magic that makes customer think about us when they think about the best.

Our five-year vision is to reshape retail for the future and as a future leader of our stores, you will play an important role in this transformation.

Explore the stores below and choose your preferred location when you apply:

North: Gemini, Manchester, Meadowhall, Metro Centre, Pudsey

East: Fosse Park, Norwich, Stratford

West: Cheshire Oaks, Cribbs Causeway, Longbridge, Wolstanton Stoke, Worcester

South: Bromley, Camberley, London Colney, Purley Way

Scotland: Aberdeen, Braehead, Gyle

Wales: Culverhouse Cross

Northern Ireland: Lisburn