Duty Manager

Asda; East Hagbourne; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount 15%

Discretionary company bonus scheme

Electric car scheme

Eye test for you and nominated user

Discounts on Asda services (Mobile, PH

Wellbeing support including 24/7 GP

Asda Allies Inclusion Networks

Parental leave policies

Colleague recognition programme

Job summary

Asda is seeking a Duty Manager to oversee the day-to-day running of the store at Didcot Great Western Park. You will plan and execute trading activity across multiple departments, ensure safety and legal compliance, and lead the shrink agenda with the team, reporting to the Store Manager to deliver a brilliant shopping experience.

You will drive standards, coach the food hall leadership team, and focus on opportunities and priorities that improve availability, merchandising, and customer service

Qualifications

• Experience as Team Leader, Supervisor or Manager in a grocery retail environment.
• Operational knowledge across food and non-food departments.
• Knowledge of improving availability, reducing waste, and managing shrink.
• Experience developing teams and managing change through leadership and building resilience.
• Good understanding HR policies and processes, and exposure to complex ER cases.
• Strong organisational skills and great customer service.
• Flexibility to work a range of shifts, including weekends and evenings.

Skills

Team leadership experience

Operations knowledge

Availability/waste/shrink management

Team development

HR policy understanding

Organisational skills

Shift flexibility

Job description

Job Title

Duty Manager

Location

Didcot Great Western Park

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Shift Pattern

Work Shift: Days
Hours per Week 45

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Store Management

Closing Date

17 November 2026

About the role

At Asda, we want you to find your everything as a Duty Manager, you'll play a vital role in the day-to-day running of our supermarket stores by planning and executing all trading activity across multiple departments whilst ensuring the store is safe and legal for our customer and colleagues. You'll lead the shrink agenda through the team, driving standards and inputs as well as acting on opportunities and business priorities with clear actions alongside the Store Manager to deliver a brilliant shopping experience and ensure our store is a great place to work.

What qualities you’ll need

• 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 food hall leadership team in waste and mark down compliance as well as the rest of the team to deliver excellent shopfloor standards whilst creating a culture of serving our customers with personality, heart and pride, and get one more item in every basket.
• Results-focused: Lead team with energy and pace to ensure shopfloor and promotional activity is landed to brief and on time to drive the store selling agenda whilst focus on opportunities and business priorities.
• 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, Supervisor or Manager in a grocery retail environment.
• Operational knowledge across food and non-food departments.
• Knowledge of improving availability, reducing waste, and managing shrink.
• Experience developing teams and managing change through leadership and building resilience.
• Good understanding HR policies and processes, and exposure to complex ER cases.
• Strong organisational skills and great customer service.
• Flexibility to work a range of shifts, including weekends and evenings.

Benefits

• 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

Company Culture

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.