Fresh Manager — Lead, Optimize Availability & Team Growth

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

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount: 15%

Discretionary bonus

Electric car scheme

Eye tests

Pension

Wellbeing services

Parental leave

Job summary

Asda Stores Ltd. in Reading is seeking a Fresh Manager to lead the Fresh department, ensuring top availability and shop floor standards while controlling waste and date code compliance.

You will lead the shrink agenda through your Fresh team and drive standards with clear actions to improve store performance. You will plan trading activity, manage teams, and ensure great customer service with a focus on safety and legality.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Strong organisational skills and great customer service.
• Flexibility to work a range of shifts, including weekends and evenings.

Responsibilities

• 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 selling with personality and get one more item in every basket whilst serving our customers with heart and pride.
• Results-focused: Ensuring shopfloor, promotional and modular activity is landed to brief and on time to drive the store selling agenda.
• 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.
• 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.
• Flexibility to work a range of shifts, including weekends and evenings.

Skills

Team leadership

Customer service

Job description

Asda Stores Ltd. in Reading is seeking a Fresh Manager to lead the Fresh department, ensuring top availability and shop floor standards while controlling waste and date code compliance.

You will lead the shrink agenda through your Fresh team and drive standards with clear actions to improve store performance. You will plan trading activity, manage teams, and ensure great customer service with a focus on safety and legality.