Property
Our Property team drive and implement the Tesco estate strategy and constantly find ways to innovate and develop, all to provide the best shopping experiences for our customers and a great working environment for our colleagues. Whether your area of specialism is within Acquisitions & Disposals, Development, Engineering, Planning & Programming or Assets & Estates, you can expect to be at the forefront of developing and shaping our ways of working for the future.
Latest roles - Property
Building Surveyor
Latest roles - Property
Building Surveyor
Lead Funding & Logistics Acquisitions Manager
‘’There is nothing more exciting than knowing that the work you do can make a positive contribution to the World we live in. By reducing our energy consumption and transitioning to renewable sources of electricity, my team and I are significantly reducing the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions. That is worth getting out of bed in the morning for!’’
Anna Dowson, Group Head of Energy -Property Services
If Tesco was a property company, it would be the UK’s largest by portfolio size: in the UK we have over 2,600 stores!
Our UK estate consumes almost 1% of the UK electricity every year: if Tesco was a country, we would be 143rd largest electricity consumer, just behind Malta!
Working in Property
It's our responsibility to look after each stage of sourcing and building a store as well as overseeing our estate. We manage it all - from evaluating a potential site to building the store itself; from maintaining it once it’s opened to ensuring that we provide the best offer to our customers. It’s a fast-paced, challenging job and we constantly innovate to get the best results.
In Property we create value and deliver great places to work and shop. By working collaboratively with colleagues across our business, as well as other stakeholders, we aim to understand how our customers like to shop now, and in the future. It is really important to us that we create a working environment, both in the office and our stores, that truly inspires colleagues to get on and be at their best.
You could be working in a number of different teams from engineering and property construction, developing and delivering great places to work and shop; to property research where we use data and insight to help inform the business in making better decisions about where to invest money. Everything we do is aimed at delivering more outstanding stores for our customers.
Our location
Snowball – Welwyn Garden City
Snowball – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by 72 year-old Jane Snowball, who used a television remote to order groceries while sat in her armchair at home. What she and others didn’t realise at the time was that this was the world’s first home online shopping trip. Our Business Support, Customer Fulfillment and Online teams are based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking and showers, dry cleaning drop off service and cash machine.
Highwoods – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by our first ‘out of town’ destination food store, ‘Colchester Highwoods’. Our Pensions, Property, and Maintenance & Engineering teams are based here.
Checkout – Welwyn Garden City
This building name is inspired by Operation Checkout, one of our most iconic price campaigns. During an economic downturn in the UK in 1977, we launched massive price cuts to help customers on very tight budgets. Our Food and Quality teams are based here and this is our main building with a restaurant, gym, bicycle parking and showers, dry cleaning drop off service, colleague baby room, cash machine, car charging and post box.
Pear – Welwyn Garden City
This building name is inspired by the project name used during our 2003 acquisition of T & S Stores. Many of these stores were converted to our Express format to help us to build our convenience offer for customers. Our General Merchandise, Supply Chain and Operations teams are based here and there is a restaurant and bicycle parking.
Omega – Welwyn Garden City
This building name is inspired by the pioneering work of the team which developed Clubcard – one of the most important retail innovations of the 20th century. Our Marketing, Communications, Tesco Mobile, Hospitality and Business Development teams are based here and there is bicycle parking, a car wash and fuel pump.
Plus – Welwyn Garden City
This building is inspired by one of our most innovative technology projects – Plus. In 1987 we introduced our first computerised tills to scan products. Our Technology team are based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking, dry cleaning drop off service, Click and Collect for Tesco Direct products and post office facilities.
Smile – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by Eat Happy which started life with the project name Smile and takes education out of the classroom to show children where their food comes from. Our Human Resources Team is based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking and dry cleaning drop off service. This is also the location of our colleague Health and Wellness centre where colleagues can access massage therapists, GP services and beauticians.
Maldon – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by our first self-service supermarket which opened in a converted cinema in Maldon in 1956. Our Finance, Procurement and Legal and Security teams are based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking, and dry cleaning drop off service, as well as it being the location for our Grocery Click and Collect service.
Strawberry - Farringdon
This building's name is inspired by the strawberry icon used by Tesco.com shoppers when we launched online shopping in the late 1990s. Our Digital team is based here.
The Nicholl Building - Dundee Customer Engagement Centre
This building's name was inspired by Mrs Nicholl, a 93 year-old customer who was moved to tears by excellent customer service from Tesco when two colleagues hand-delivered her groceries during bad weather as a ‘wee gift from Tesco’. We have a restaurant, bicycle parking, showers, Click & Collect service, cash machine, garden and games area, as well as colleague kitchens and rest areas on each floor.
Heart - Welwyn Garden City
Our building at the heart of the Welwyn Garden City Campus is now open, providing a new and exciting central hub with flexible spaces to learn, collaborate and innovate. There are facilities for well-being, a customer experience centre and a Tesco Express store.
Working in Welwyn Garden City
Our campus sits just 10 minutes walk from the centre of Welwyn Garden city with its many shops, restaurants, pubs and sports facilities. Close to the A1 and with frequent trains running to Kings Cross in as little as 26 minutes (free shuttle buses take you between the station and office) the campus is well connected to the surrounding area.
