Ambient Manager

Asda Stores Ltd; Preston; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount: 15% off shopping

Discretionary company bonus scheme

Company pension

Wellbeing support

Allies Inclusion Networks

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Asda is seeking an Ambient Manager in Preston to oversee all aspects of the Ambient department, ensuring excellent availability and shop floor standards through strong execution. You will lead the ambient team, drive shrink reduction, and maintain store safety and legal compliance for customers and colleagues.

You'll influence daily trading activities, coach colleagues, and implement action plans to improve performance and resilience across the team, delivering a great shopping experience.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team in a retail environment.
• Ability to drive availability and reduce shrink through processes.
• Strong customer service and organisational skills.
• Ability to develop and coach staff and manage change.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Ambient department to deliver availability and store standards.
• Drive the shrink agenda and ensure safety and legal compliance for customers and colleagues.
• Coach and develop the Ambient team, fostering resilience and ownership.

Skills

Team Leader

Retail experience

Customer service

People leadership

Shrink management

Organisation

Job description

Job Details

Job Title: Ambient Manager

Location: Preston, Fulwood

Employment Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Shift Pattern: Work Shift: Days

Hours per Week: 45

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits

Closing Date: 9 November 2026

Role Overview

At Asda, we want you to find your everything as a Ambient Manager, you’ll play a vital role in the day-to‑day running of all areas of the Ambient department in store by delivering the best availability and highest shop floor standards through brilliant execution whilst ensuring the store is safe and legal for our customer and colleagues. You will lead the shrink agenda through your Ambient team, driving standards and inputs as well as acting on opportunities with clear actions.

Qualities

• Drive strategy into action: Planning and executing all trading activity on the shopfloor, delivering great availability standards, key metrics and KRAs through routine and processes.
• Lead with impact: Engaging and coaching your team to constantly improve routine and process whilst creating a culture of serving with personality and get one more item in every basket.
• Results-focused: Ensuring shopfloor and promotional activity is landed to brief and on time to drive the store selling agenda by ensuring products are available in the aisle as well as on promotional end/shipper.
• Talent Development: Listen with empathy, driving resilience and encourage ownership, focus and passion for the business by bringing the “Asdaness” to work every day and supporting the development of the team and creating an environment where people feel valued, trusted, and motivated to step up.

What you’ll bring

• Experience as Team Leader or Supervisor in a retail environment.
• Operational knowledge on food or non-food departments.
• Knowledge of improving availability, reducing waste, and managing shrink.
• Experience developing teams and managing change through leadership and building resilience.
• Strong organisational skills and great customer service.

Benefits

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

About Asda

We’re a big player in our world with a mission to be the UK’s best fresh food and clothing superstore. How? By giving ordinary working people and their families what they need for their shopping - real value. That means you get to make a difference in our customers’ lives. From the tills, the office, or on the road, the scale of everything we deliver is huge. And that means the scale of opportunities for your career is just as big. Whether you're in store, on the road or behind the scenes, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow and make a real impact. Find your everything at Asda.