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As our Store Manager, you’ll lead the planning strategy and execution of our supermarket’s day-to-day operations across key departments. You’ll ensure that availability is maximised, waste and shrink are minimised, and our store runs efficiently and safely. You’ll lead and coach your team to deliver consistent standards, drive productivity, and ensure our store is always ready for customers. Whether it’s stock routines, or compliance, you’ll be the driving force behind operational excellence.
As a Store Manager, you lead with heart as well as results. You build self-esteem by recognising effort, attitude, and growth, creating an environment where people feel valued, trusted, and motivated to step up. You listen with empathy, respond with care, and create space for open, respectful conversations on the shop floor and beyond.
You’re transparent in your decisions, clearly sharing the “why” and inviting your team to solve challenges together. You support your team by coaching through questions, encouraging ownership, and celebrating initiative. You believe in creating a culture of always serving with heart and pride, driving the stores selling agenda with healthy competition across the trading floor by bringing the “Asdaness” to work every day.
What makes a brilliant Store Manager:
- Drive strategy into action: Planning and identifying opportunities to improve trading activity on the shopfloor, delivering great availability standards, key metrics and KRAs through routine and processes.
- Execution and result-focused: You’re passionate about getting things done right, first time, every time displaying resilience, focus and passion for the business and holding your team to account.
- Commercial awareness: You understand how the right strategy, availability, waste, and shrink impact performance—and you know how to improve them, leading the shrink agenda through the team and driving standards and inputs as well as acting on opportunity with clear actions. Ensure POS one best way is followed across the store delivering strong value message for our customers.
- Coaching and Leadership: Coach and support your leadership team on delivering brilliant shopfloor standards and develop our future talent by engaging and coaching your team to constantly improve routine and process whilst creating a culture of serving our customers with personality, heart and pride, and get one more item in every basket.
- Organised and efficient: You thrive in a fast-paced environment and know how to prioritise and delegate effectively.
- Data-driven: You use insights to make informed decisions and drive operational improvements, lead the shrink agenda by driving standards and ensure the store remains legal and complaint for customer and colleagues.
What you’ll bring:
- Experience as Store Manager or Duty Manager in a fast-paced retail environment.
- Strong operational knowledge across food and non-food departments.
- A track record of improving availability, reducing waste, and managing shrink.
- Proven record of developing teams and managing change through leadership and building resilience.
- Experience managing complex ER cases and confidence in understanding HR policies and processes.
- Strong organisational skills and exceeding customer service.
Are you ready to take the lead and be driving force behind one of our Supermarkets? Apply today and
Find Your Everything
at Asda.Everything you'll love
Alongside a competitive salary, you'll get lots of other great benefits too, including:
Colleague discount: 15% off your shopping at Asda from day 1 for you and a nominated user
Discretionary company bonus scheme
Access to an enhanced electric car scheme
Free eye test for you and your nominated user
Discounted rates and special offers on Asda services such as Mobile, Pharmacy, Opticians, Personal Loan, Pet Insurance, Travel Insurance, Travel Money, Tyres, Breakdown Cover
Stream: access to flexible pay, income tracker, financial coaching, exclusive savings account and much more
Company pension
Wellbeing: including 24/7 virtual GP, 24/7 EAP service, as well as access to free counselling, legal, mortgage, cancer and bereavement support
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.
Colleague recognition programme
Special offers and discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking to theme parks and cinemas
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Asda Express
Here at Asda Express, you won’t just find everything we have to offer in our Asda stores, you’ll find fast-food favourites from Greggs to Subway and Burger King. That means we have an even wider range of roles you can join us in. So whether you’re a Store Manager ready to champion the Asda experience across our food-to-go business, a Team Leader who thrives on the huge variety of tasks you’ll find in our restaurants, or a Crew Member getting stuck into everything from till to back of house – you’ll find your everything here at Asda Express.
It's absolutely fantastic being Store Manager in an Asda Express store… delivering the greatest service possible to our customers and the community.
Trevor,
Store Manager
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 eye tests
Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.
Mental health support
Access free mental health support for you and your family.
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.
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.
Store roles
The heart of Asda, we’re making our stores a hub for everything our customers need, and our In-Store teams build real connections in our communities to help our customers get their essentials, at a price they can afford.
Is a retail role for you?
Take our short quiz to find out more about Life at Asda and get introduced to our values which run through the core of our business.
The Retail Learning Journey
We want everyone who joins our stores to have everything they need to grow into confident colleagues across our departments. That’s what our Learning Journey, split into Ready to Go – Ready to Serve – Ready to Grow, is all about. From your induction to your fifth year with us, it’s designed to support your growth across different roles in our job families, so you develop your skills and join other departments.
Ready to Go
We’ll welcome you into the business, helping you settle in, making sure you have the knowledge and support you need to be confident in your new role.
Ready to Serve
You’ll shadow some of our team members across different roles in our job families, and learn about the different levels in their department or store in bite-sized learning missions. So you can learn, grow, and get the knowledge you need to work in a new department.
Ready to Grow
When you’re ready, you can start thinking about where you want to go next, and what learning you need to grow. And we’ll help you make it happen, and help you develop your skills so you’re ready to grow into your next role.