Aldi is growing. Quickly. And Real Estate plays a pivotal supporting role. Because with growth like this, there’s a real need to build up our Real Estate portfolio of stores, Regional Distribution Centres, warehouse and freezer environments, as well as National offices.
We deal with everyone from local councils to architects, developing strong relationships and creating robust project plans that fulfil our ambitious targets. Many of the projects we run are on fully active sites, so there are a lot of challenges to overcome. It means you’ll join a team that offers a lot of variety - not to mention exciting learning curves.
As one of the UK’s fastest growing supermarket chains, we’re opening new stores at lightning speed. It means our Real Estate Teams are always kept on their toes and everything needs to run smoothly.
This role offers an enormous breadth of responsibility during a busy and exciting time for Aldi. Essentially, you’ll be expanding and improving our store network: identifying and recommending sites to the Managing Director, negotiating the purchase, sale or rental agreement, determining the site layout and appointing the team who will make it all happen.
There’s a huge amount of variety too. You might be dealing with a relatively small store extension or a multi-million pound development involving a huge team of consultants and suppliers. Whatever the project, you’ll make sure there’s minimal disruption, strong due diligence and accurate accounts. You’ll be skilled in dealing with councils – and the public – when submitting planning applications. Added to that, you’ll take care of everything from authorising Real Estate adverts and appointing Real Estate agents to implementing safety measures and structural checks.
You’ll have a talented team to support you, and you’ll be relied on to keep them motivated and performing to their best ability. As you would expect there are plenty of personnel duties too, for example, authorising holidays, organising training and carrying out performance reviews.
Massive change. Incredible growth. Huge responsibility. An opportunity in Real Estate that’s hard to beat.
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Competitive Salary with further increases based on length of service.
6 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
You’ll work a 5-day, 50-hour week, from Monday – Friday. When you start, you’ll receive a fully expensed VW Electric Car, a company pension, life assurance and private employee medical insurance. After 2 years you will receive company maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
You’ll work closely with the National Real Estate Director in the National Head Office to ensure the completion of new sites under construction, store extensions, refurbishments and the acquisition of brand new sites. Whatever the challenge, the Director can rely on you to ensure a smooth and efficient process, minimal disruption to the business, strong due diligence and accurate accounts.
You’ll be the eyes and ears of the Director, feeding back the status of every project, as well as liaising with the site team, auditors or external bodies. Because of you, all aspects of store design are checked to meet exacting Aldi specifications, UK design standards and all the relevant Building Regulations.
It’s a role that’s full of challenge and responsibility at a time when Aldi’s growth shows no sign of stopping. Perfect for a talented Real Estate Manager.
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£58,715 rising in increments to £90,615 in year 8.
5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
You’ll work a 5-day, 45-hour week, from Monday – Friday. When you start, you’ll receive a fully expensed VW Electric Car, a company pension, and company maternity, paternity and adoption leave after 2 years. After 6 months, you’ll receive private employee medical insurance.
You’ll work closely with the Regional Real Estate Director to stay on top of all store improvements in your region. These include extensions to car parks and the surrounding landscaping, general building and maintenance, as well as some tenant and landlord issues. Whatever the challenge, the Director can rely on you to ensure a smooth and efficient process, minimal disruption to the business, strong due diligence and accurate accounts.
You’ll have oversight of multiple locations, liaising with consultants to get the work done. So it’s important that you can get the best out of people through good management.
From in store projects to acquiring new sites, this role allows you to get involved in every aspect of Real Estate, making it an ideal position for anyone who has the right skills and a passion for Real Estate.
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£50,000 salary rising in increments to £90,615 in year 8.
5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
You’ll work a 5-day, 45-hour week, from Monday – Friday. When you start, you’ll receive a fully expensed VW Electric Car, a company pension, and company maternity, paternity and adoption leave after 2 years. After 6 months, you’ll receive private employee medical insurance.
The scale of Real Estate projects we’re undertaking is huge. In this fast-paced role, you'll log requests for funds and invoices. It'll also see you produce site details and control all service charges, lease and rent information. Whatever the task, you'll put your all into it.
Naturally, you will need to be efficient and well organised, with the ability to keep things tidy and well ordered.
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£34,690 rising in increments to £40,510 in year 5.
5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
You’ll work a 5-day, 40-hour week. After 4 years, you’ll receive a company pension and private employee medical insurance. And after 2 years, you’ll get company maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
With Aldi enjoying such rapid growth, you can imagine what it feels like to be part of the Real Estate team. We’re constantly busy and enjoying plenty of fresh challenges every day. Our Real Estate Director will rely on you and your colleagues to keep the department running efficiently.
Great with people and ready to think on your feet, you’re also a strong communicator who can liaise with everyone from internal auditors to the professional team on site. You’ll have a great eye for detail too: checking and stamping the calculation of invoices for construction, equipment and services, maintaining logs for requested funds and invoices, keeping sensitive information such as financial projections and annual budgets carefully filed and secure. Importantly, you’ll co-ordinate the Real Estate Director’s diary, so you’ll be the perfect point of contact should any queries over a meeting or a negotiation arise.
If you’re ready to stretch your organisational skills to the max, and keep this department running like clockwork, this could be the role for you.
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£31,100- £34,690 rising in increments to £39,285 - £42,540 in year 5 (regional differences may apply).
5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
You’ll work a 5-day, 40-hour week. After 4 years, you’ll receive a company pension and private employee medical insurance. And after 2 years, you’ll get company maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
National Procurement work across Aldi’s numerous departments, including internationally, and as the team expands to support a growing business, cost control and best value have never been more crucial.
As a commercial and strategic thinker, you will use your Procurement expertise to continually challenge, reinvent and revolutionise indirect spend areas, seeking the optimum total cost of ownership for Aldi.
Multiple stakeholder management (sometimes across countries) will be key to your success in delivering continual improvement and benefit back to the business, driving value through competitive tenders, eAuctions, Supplier Relationship Management, contract management, and everything in between. And all at the pace required of a constantly evolving and market-leading retailer.
Leading your National Procurement Assistant team, and assisting the National Procurement Director, every day is different.
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£58,715 salary rising in increments to £90,615 in year 8.
5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
You’ll work a 5-day, 45-hour week, from Monday – Friday. When you start, you’ll receive a fully expensed VW Electric Car, a company pension, and company maternity, paternity and adoption leave after 2 years. After 6 months, you’ll receive private employee medical insurance.
The variety of National Procurement’s remit will see you working cross-functionally (and even internationally) to deliver multiple projects, adding value across the entire business.
No two days are the same, as you run your own tenders, meet with your suppliers, and liaise closely with your stakeholders.
Pace and accuracy are key, so you’ll have an eye for attention to detail, and enjoy making progress. National Procurement have a direct impact on Aldi’s ways of working, and you’ll see your efforts realised in cost savings, process improvements and operational enhancements business-wide.
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£34,690 salary rising in increments to £40,510 in year 5.
5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
You’ll work a 5-day, 40-hour week. After 4 years, you’ll receive a company pension and private employee medical insurance. And after 2 years, you’ll get company maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
This is about providing invaluable support to your Director, managing the systems and processes in your area to keep things running smoothly.
You'll play a key role in ensuring an efficient and co-operative working environment. It'll involve day- to-day organisational work, data processing and analysis. Naturally, you'll need to be on the ball and well organised, with excellent attention to detail and a willingness to learn.
We do things our own way at Aldi. But whatever we're doing, we must be getting it right. With a wave of impressive sales figures behind us, we're opening new stores at lightning speed. And to keep on top of that wave, we have to do something pretty special to keep our customers coming back for more.
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£34,690 rising in increments to £40,510 in year 5.
5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
You’ll work a 40-hour week, working from Monday – Friday. Plus, you’ll receive a company pension and private employee medical insurance after 4 years, company maternity and adoption leave as well as company paternity pay after 2 years.
We understand that people have commitments and hobbies outside of work, so to enhance their work-life balance and wellbeing our people have the option to work flexible hours throughout the week outside of the standard office hours; for example earlier finishes, later starts, or extended breaks throughout the day.
We’re also committed to looking after you. You’ll receive company pension, private employee medical insurance, sick pay, and maternity, paternity and adoption leave packages as well as long service awards.
We understand lots of people like to work flexibly across different locations therefore we offer up to 3 days per week remote working (role dependent).
We want you to have time to unwind, which we why we offer competitive holiday allowance. Where to next?
You can also join our discounted Health Cash Plan and take advantage of gym membership discounts, discounted cinema tickets, money off holidays and more!
On top of the full training when you first join, you’ll get access to some of the best training and development in the retail world throughout your Aldi career.
Our wellbeing programme links to five key areas of wellbeing; physical, mental, nutritional, financial and social. Colleagues have access to an online wellness portal containing information and guidance, 24/7 Employee Assistant Programme and wellbeing related benefits.
We value you for what you can do, rather than where you’ve come from. So we’ll recognise your contributions and often implement your ideas. And if you really excel, there is the opportunity to progress within Aldi.
With so many amazing developments, Aldi stores keep getting better and better. Not only that, you’ll help make sure it’s a place where you and your team can do great things and express your ideas.
Online Application/CV Upload
You’ll need to complete an online application or upload a CV that highlights your key skills, attitude and character. It’s your first chance to grab our attention so don’t hold back.
Video Interview
If we like the look of your application, you might be asked to join us for a video interview. This helps us to get a better idea of who you are, and what we’re looking for.
Online Test
If you’re applying for a management role and we think you’ve got the Aldi personality, we’ll ask you to complete a quick online test. If you’re not applying for a management role, you might skip this stage.
Group Assessment
If all goes well, we’ll then ask you to spend some time at one of our assessment centres. Our processes have been created to ensure you have the chance to shine. We’re looking for your drive, professionalism and work ethic.
Final Interview
Congratulations - you’ve almost made it. The Final Interview is the last stage of the Aldi recruitment process. This will involve getting to know more about you including your experience, career aspirations and passion to join #TeamAldi. It is also your opportunity to find out more about Aldi and the team you might be working with.
Mike is a National Real Estate Director and we asked him to share how the highly skilled Real Estate team are dealing with accelerated growth. Not to mention store extensions, corporate spaces and warehouses. Over to you Mike.
Mike - National Real Estate Director
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