Store Planning ManagerHead Office

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As a Store Planning Manager - Trading Projects, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of ASDA’s store estate. Working within the Store Development team, you’ll be at the centre of how we plan, optimise, and evolve our in-store environments, ensuring they meet the needs of our customers today while anticipating the demands of tomorrow.You will lead the planning and execution of some of our most important trading initiatives - from existing space updates to new service propositions - translating business strategy into clear, actionable store plans. This means collaborating across multiple teams, transforming data and insight into compelling layouts, and driving projects that directly enhance the customer and colleague experience.A key part of your role will be to ensure that store spaces are used brilliantly and effectively. You’ll balance commercial ambition with operational reality, making smart decisions that maximise sales, improve flow, and support category growth. You’ll maintain accuracy across our store plans, lead discretionary space planning, and be a champion for retail-first thinking across every plan and project.You’ll also be responsible for upholding strong governance around space, assets, and layout changes - ensuring clarity, consistency, and robust decision-making across the estate. Through excellent communication, problem-solving, and your ability to “join the dots”, you will enable cross-functional teams to deliver at pace and with confidence.Ultimately, this is a role for someone who loves making things happen, thrives in a fast-moving environment, and wants to have a tangible impact on how millions of customers shop in our stores every week.What You’ll Be Responsible ForStore & Space Planning
  • Lead updates to existing store plans, ensuring accuracy and alignment with current trading requirements.
  • Manage and deliver discretional space planning, ensuring the right balance of space by category to optimise customer experience and sales.
  • Produce and update space and range plans to support upcoming initiatives and business change.
Trading Project Leadership
  • Own planning of key trading projects (e.g., front-end transformation, service hubs, new trading formats).
  • Join the dots across multiple functions to ensure seamless execution - from concept design through to store launch.
  • Lead project governance, ensuring milestones, decisions, and risks are clearly communicated and managed.
Cross-Team Enablement & Collaboration
  • Work closely across Store Development and wider Property, Commercial, Central Operations, Modular / Floor Planning, and wider business teams.
  • Act as a key connector, ensuring that plans are fully enabled, aligned, and delivered at pace.
  • Bring clarity, insight, and structure to complex multi-stakeholder work.
Governance
  • Support the development, planning, and tracking of asset replacement programmes to ensure stores remain safe, efficient, and customer-ready.
  • Maintain robust processes across store development activities, ensuring adherence to standards.

Let's find out about you:

  • Brings the best out of others: you thrive on working collaboratively and inspire teams to deliver their very best.
  • Sees the bigger picture: you're able to balance commercial, customer, and operational considerations.
  • Joins the dots: you connect information, teams, and insights to create simple, actionable plans.
  • Has strong attention to detail: ensuring plans, drawings, and execution steps are precise and robust.
  • Has a retail-first mindset: you understand what matters most to colleagues and customers in-store.
  • Is a natural problem-solver: you cut through complexity and find smart, pragmatic solutions.
  • Makes stuff happen: proactive, resilient, and brilliant at delivering at pace.
  • Can work confidently with CADS (or is eager and quick to learn).
  • Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and embraces change with energy and positivity.
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 our Home Office in Leeds. 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.

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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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10% off Asda pet insurance

10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services

10% off Asda Tyres

10% off Asda Travel insurance

20% off Asda Mobile bundles

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

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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).

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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.

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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.

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