Express Communication Coordinator

Asda; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent retail company in Leeds is seeking an Express Communication Coordinator to enhance engagement with Express teams and stakeholders. The role involves planning communications, supporting store interactions, and driving innovative practices to boost operational efficiency. Ideal candidates should possess strong communication skills and thrive in dynamic environments. This position offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including a discretionary bonus and a company pension plan.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

15% colleague discount in store and online

Free access to wellbeing services

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong communicator able to work with individuals at all levels.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage change.
• Agile, effective decision maker who learns quickly.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Express communications and activity planning.
• Engage directly with Express stores and stakeholders.
• Maintain a view of deadlines and activities through the Activity Planner.
• Drive improvements with new approaches and ideas.
• Present findings and influence positive change.
• Assist leaders with planning and executing activities.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Agile decision making

Customer obsession

Job description

Job Title

Express Communication Coordinator

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category

Corporate Store Operations

Closing Date

1 December 2025

“Find your role”

This role will coordinate Express communications and activity planning, ensuring clear, timely, and impactful engagement with both our Express teams and internal stakeholders. This role is critical in driving alignment, improving operational efficiency, and enabling teams to deliver exceptional results through well-structured communication and planning. Working closely with key stakeholders across the business.

What you’ll do:

• Store Communications: Review, coach, and approve stakeholder submissions to ensure messaging is clear, consistent, and aligned across all retail communication channels.
• Store Interaction: Engage directly with Express stores and stakeholders to support communications and projects from initiation through to completion.
• Activity Planning: Maintain a clear and accurate view of upcoming deadlines, key activities, and diary dates that impact colleagues and customers through the Express Comms Activity Planner.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Drive improvements within the team by introducing new approaches, ideas, and best practices to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Presentation & Insight: Present findings and recommendations to key stakeholders, challenging current ways of working and influencing positive change across networks.
• Project Support: Assist senior leaders and project managers with planning and executing store rollout activities and related communications.

“Let's find out about you.”

• Be a strong communicator with great personal skills to work with people at all levels – not just in our business, but also beyond it.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to manage change and drive results.
• You will be agile and an effective decision maker, willing to move, fail and learn fast.
• Be obsessed about our purpose and our customers.

Everything you'll love

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
• 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.