Grant began his career in the early 1980s with local Stirling Albion, recovering from a double leg fracture[2] before joining Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen in 1984.
[10] In August 1996, Aberdeen played Everton in a testimonial for Grant, with the 9,000-plus crowd witnessing a 3–1 win for the Merseyside team.
[11][12] Midway through the 1996-97 season, Grant joined Hibernian for a £75,000 fee,[1] spending little over a year at Easter Road before a March 1998 move to Dundee.
Towards the end of the 1998-99 season, returned to first club Stirling on loan,[1] scoring in what turned out to be his final match at senior level.
[14][15] In February 2019, with the appointment of Andy Goldie as the club's new academy director, Grant moved to a new role as head of player pathway and loans.