Fresh Manager

Asda Stores Ltd; Wallington; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading grocery retailer in Wallington is seeking a Fresh Manager. You'll oversee fresh departments, ensuring quality and availability while leading and developing your team. Key requirements include experience in grocery retail, a strong understanding of food safety standards, and a passion for coaching. In addition to a competitive salary, you will enjoy benefits such as a generous colleague discount, a discretionary bonus, and various wellbeing programs. This hands-on role demands flexibility across shifts.

Benefits

Colleague discount: 15% off shopping

Discretionary company bonus scheme

Access to enhanced electric car scheme

Free eye test for you and a user

Discounted rates on services

Financial coaching and savings account

Company pension

24/7 virtual GP and wellbeing support

Colleague recognition programme

Special offers across services and activities

Qualifications

• Experience managing or supervising in a fresh food or grocery retail environment.
• Strong knowledge of food safety standards and compliance.
• A passion for coaching and developing others.
• The ability to work flexibly across shifts, including early mornings, evenings, and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team to deliver high standards of quality and availability.
• Drive performance and manage stock and waste.
• Ensure compliance with all food safety regulations.

Skills

Fresh food expertise

Customer focus

Leadership

Operational excellence

Attention to detail

Commercial awareness

Drive Performance

Job description

Overview

Job Title Fresh Manager

Location Wallington

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 9 February 2026

At Asda, we want you to succeed. As our Fresh Manager, you’ll be responsible for ensuring our fresh departments are always full and inviting, delivering the highest standards of quality, availability, and food safety. You’ll manage a team of colleagues, coaching and developing them to deliver brilliant service and maintain exceptional standards. Working closely with the wider store leadership team, you’ll drive performance, manage stock and waste, and ensure compliance with all food safety regulations. This is a hands-on role where your passion for fresh food, people leadership, and operational excellence will shine every day.

What makes a brilliant Fresh Manager:

• Fresh food expertise: You understand what great looks like in fresh—from quality and presentation to rotation and waste control.
• Customer focus: You know how to create a fresh food experience that keeps customers coming back.
• Leadership: You lead by example, energising your team and creating a culture of pride and accountability.
• Operational excellence: You’re confident managing stock, availability, and compliance in a fast-paced environment.
• Attention to detail: You’re meticulous when it comes to food safety, hygiene, and legal standards.
• Commercial awareness: You use data and insight to drive sales, reduce waste, and improve margins.
• Drive Performance: Monitor KPIs and sales targets, using your insight to boost results and celebrate success.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience managing or supervising in a fresh food or grocery retail environment.
• Strong knowledge of food safety standards and compliance.
• A passion for coaching and developing others.
• The ability to work flexibly across shifts, including early mornings, evenings, and weekends.

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