Duty Manager

Asda Stores Ltd; Pwllheli; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Electric car scheme

Free eye test

Wellbeing support

Pension scheme

Job summary

Asda Stores Ltd in Pwllheli is seeking a Duty Manager to lead day-to-day store operations across multiple departments, ensuring a safe, legal and brilliant shopping experience for customers and colleagues. You will plan trading activity, manage 45 hours a week, and support the Store Manager with execution of priorities.

We’re looking for hands-on leaders with grocery retail experience, strong customer service, and the ability to develop teams, drive standards, and navigate change while

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in grocery retail environments.
• Strong understanding of availability, waste and shrink management.
• Ability to develop teams and manage change through leadership and resilience.
• Good understanding HR policies and ER exposure.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute all trading activity on the shop floor to deliver great availability and key metrics.
• Lead and coach the team to maintain high standards and a customer-focused culture.
• Support the Store Manager in delivering priorities and driving the store selling agenda.
• Create an environment where colleagues feel valued, trusted and motivated to step up.

Skills

Team leadership experience in grocery

Operational knowledge across food and非

Job description

Job Title: Duty Manager | Location: Pwllheli | Employment Type: Full time | Contract Type: Permanent | Shift Pattern: Days | Hours per Week: 45 | Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits | Closing Date: 23 September 2026

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 and Perks:

• 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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