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Model, Specification & Kit ManagerHead Office
“Let’s find your role”
As Model, Specification & Kit Manager, you will manage the development, governance, and continuous evolution of ASDA's store models, specifications, and kit strategy. You will be accountable for translating store design vision into scalable, commercially effective standards that enable consistent, high-performing store environments across the estate.
You will operate as the strategic owner and have authority on store models and specifications, ensuring they are robust, future-fit, and aligned to trading priorities, customer expectations, and operational efficiency. Working in close partnership with Trading, Commercial, Operations, and Construction, you will ensure design intent is not only clearly defined but practically deliverable at pace and scale.
You will also manage the evaluation of kit trials and model innovation, using data and insight to drive decision-making, optimise investment, and continually improve store performance. This role requires strong leadership, commercial acumen, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders while balancing standardisation with flexibility.
This is an opportunity for someone who thrives in complexity, sets direction rather than follows it, and is passionate about shaping compelling, operationally excellent retail environments.
Models, Specifications & Design Leadership
Own and define the long-term strategy for store models, design standards, and kit specifications across all formats.
Ensure all models and specifications are scalable, deliverable, and aligned with business strategy and customer proposition.
Translate design vision into clear frameworks, standards, and principles that guide delivery teams.
Act as the “source of truth” for store models, ensuring consistency while enabling innovation where needed.
Oversee development and maintenance of CAD drawings, technical documentation, and spec on standards to ensure accuracy and usability.
Leadership, Collaboration & Stakeholder Influence
Build strong, effective relationships across Trading Projects, Commercial, Operations, and Construction, influencing direction and aligning priorities.
Manage cross-functional alignment on store model decisions, ensuring clarity, accountability, and pace of execution.
Act as a key interface between strategy and delivery, ensuring seamless translation from concept to implementation.
Provide leadership, coaching, and expert guidance to project and delivery teams on models, kit, and specifications.
Governance & Standards
Define and uphold governance frameworks for model and specification control, ensuring changes are rigorously assessed, approved, and communicated.
Ensure all standards meet regulatory, health & safety, operational, and brand requirements.
Manage decision-making on model evolution, balancing innovation with consistency and operational feasibility.
Commercial & Operational Leadership
Own the performance of kit and specification decisions, driving cost-effective solutions without compromising quality or experience.
Evaluate trials, pilots, and post-implementation performance to inform strategic roll-out decisions.
Balance customer experience, operational efficiency, and financial performance when shaping models and specifications.
Identify and deliver opportunities to optimise cost, reduce complexity, and improve execution efficiency.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
Manage the continuous development of store model and specification processes, driving standardisation and simplification where appropriate.
Champion innovation through structured trials, embedding a test-and-learn approach across the function.
Drive adoption of best practice, ensuring the organisation continually improves how it designs and delivers stores.
“Let’s find out about you”
Kit and specification expert, with deep knowledge of retail fixtures, equipment, and materials - and how these translate into practical, high-performing store environments.
Proficiency in CAD or a strong willingness to learn, with the ability to confidently review, challenge, and guide technical drawings and layouts to ensure accuracy and deliverability.
Demonstrates strong leadership and ownership, with the ability to set direction and influence at senior levels.
Brings a deep understanding of retail environments and what drives performance on the shop floor.
Combines strategic thinking with operational expertise, ensuring ideas translate into real-world execution.
Highly commercial, able to evaluate trade-offs and make decisions that optimise cost, performance, and experience.
Proven ability to manage through complexity, aligning multiple stakeholders and driving clarity.
Strong focus on governance, standards, and continuous improvement, with the confidence to challenge where needed.
Uses insight, data, and trial outcomes to inform decisions and shape future strategy.
Excellent communicator, able to simplify complex concepts and build alignment across diverse teams.
Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment and leads change with energy and credibility.
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
Discretionary company bonus
Company pension up to 7% matched
Company Car allowance of £5,700
15% colleague discount in store and online
Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
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Why Asda?
We’re a really values-led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone’s input. We get on with things, we make them happen. As so many people across the UK rely on us, we have to.
Our Creating Change for Better programme tackles the major challenges facing our business and society today and guides our efforts on where we can make the biggest difference by reducing our environmental footprint, creating healthier products and supporting our communities.
Big businesses like ours offer big opportunities. With more than 1,000 stores across the UK, from superstores and Asda Living to petrol stations, as well as depots and Express stores. £60m+ in revenue taken every day. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles 2 million transactions a month. And 75% of the UK shop in Asda every year.
Rewards and Recognition
Free remote GP service
Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.
Pension
Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.
Free physiotherapy consultations
Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.
Colleague discounts
15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.
Car cash allowance
Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.
(*Conditions apply)
Mortgage advice
Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.
Confidential support helpline
Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.
Cycle to work
Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.
Financial support
Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.
Free eye tests
Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.
Bonus
Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.
Cancer support
Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.
Paid time off
From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.
Mental health support
Access free mental health support for you and your family.
Support and advice with care
If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.
Hybrid working
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots
Save money on every day spends
Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more
Setting your loved ones up for the future
As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.
Guaranteed contracted hours
All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.
Holiday buying
Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).
Everything that makes us different, makes us Asda
Our colleague-led inclusion networks, including our DisAbility, Race & Ethnicity, Women at Asda, LGBTQIA+, and our Wellbeing Network, are all about giving our colleagues a space to share their stories, experiences, and perspective. Supported by our dedicated Executive Ambassadors and led by our ten passionate co-chairs, our Networks help us make changes that make life better for every colleague.
Transforming communities and changing lives
Our stores, distribution centres, and head offices work in local communities across the UK – and we want to be a real part of making a difference for them. From our amazing 400 Community Champions to our charity, The Asda Foundation, we’ve got loads of ways to help local groups and charities. Our outreach programmes, grants, and Community Champions are all about listening to our communities’ needs – to shape projects and initiatives that will make a real impact for local people.
Our commitment to the Armed Forces
Here at Asda, we’re dedicated to helping the Armed Forces rediscover their everything after service. We guarantee interviews for people who have left service and meet the minimum criteria for a role, provide leave for reservists’ training, support for cadet training, and employment opportunities for their partners. And that’s why we have over a thousand new colleagues from the Armed Forces Service Leaver Community join us every year.
Head Office roles
Thinking bigger, looking forwards, and always asking what’s next, Our Head Office teams aren’t afraid to challenge how we think, and embrace fresh perspectives, experiences, and change – all to keep us growing.
Asda House
The heart of everything Asda in the centre of Leeds, Asda House is full of collaborative workspaces and meeting rooms where teams work together to deliver real value for ordinary working people.
It’s home to its own Leon restaurant, where you can get discounted food and drinks, as well as two shops and a staff discount store, where you can sometimes snap up some real end of season bargains. We also have regular atrium events, where you’ll often have a chance to sample new products, and play host to exciting celebrity guests. And you can park your car for free in our onsite parking, with electric charging points just over the road.
If you're looking for a new opportunity and you want a challenge within a fast-paced environment with great culture then a role at Asda would be ideal for you.
Polly,
Commercial and Propositions Lead
The flexibility is great, I can attend school events like sports days and I can go for my morning run when I'm working from home and in the office as they have showers.
Tom,
Seasonal Packaging Design Specialist
The role is really varied and diverse. You get involved in so many different things! Everyone is so supportive and really cares about your personal development.
Hayley,
Buying Manager
Work where it works
Here at Asda, we think that the best way to work is to do it where it works best. That’s why all of our teams who are able to work from home, work with each other to figure out a pattern that works for you all, and the business needs. So you can get the most out of work, whether that’s at home, the office, or both.