Senior Buying Manager (Ambient Food)

ASDA; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retailer in the UK is seeking a Senior Buying Manager for their Food division. The role involves leading the buying department, managing category P&L, and executing a long-term strategy. Candidates should have extensive experience in commercial leadership, possess strong strategic skills, and demonstrate a deep understanding of consumer behavior. This position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model, with excellent benefits, including a company car allowance and discretionary bonus.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up 1.5 times contribution (Max 15%)

Company Car allowance of £8000

15% colleague discount in store and online

Access to wellbeing services

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience of working at a Senior Commercial Leadership level.
• Ability to balance financial, operational and customer delivery with experience of owning and leading an end-to-end P&L.
• Strong understanding of data and making data informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the buying department including influencing the portfolio across buying operations.
• Manage and drive end to end ownership of the category P&L and budgets.
• Collaborate with suppliers and manage costs to ensure Asda is the retailer of choice.

Skills

Financial acumen

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Commercial insight

Data-driven decision making

Job description

Job Title

Senior Buying Manager (Ambient Food)

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive Salary plus benefits

Category

Allocation

Closing Date

6 January 2026

At Asda, we are on an accelerated growth journey to transform our business and we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Buying Manager. Our Food division is at the heart of our ambitious transformation and growth plans over the next 3 years, and this is an exciting team to join the team and be part of this journey!

As The Senior Buying Manager You Will

• Act as a business owner, lead and manage the buying department, including influencing a diverse portfolio of capabilities across buying and commercial operations
• Create and maintain a deep understanding of the customer in all decision making
• Manage and drive end to end ownership of the category P&L and budgets
• Be responsible for the development and execution of the long term category strategy and plan, aligned to the enterprise commercial strategy across all channels
• Source and collaborate with suppliers and manage costs, ensuring Asda is the retailer of choice for suppliers
• Own all range, pricing, promotions, stock and trading activity and decisions for the category, across all channels
• Work collaboratively with wider business stakeholders and functions to align and deliver the business unit plans
• Lead and achieve transformation and change projects on behalf of Asda to ensure maximum commercial and customer success

“Let’s Find Out About You”

• Ability to balance financial, operational and customer delivery with experience of owning and leading an end-to-end P&L
• Proven experience of working at a Senior Commercial Leadership level
• Ability to demonstrate strong strategic commercial acumen, including:
  • Developing and delivering a 3-year strategy
  • A deep consideration of macro-economic trends
  • Agility to move between short term and strategic thinking.
  • Broad and enterprise decision making
  • Keeping up to date with the external market trends
• Well rounded, forward thinking commercial business leader, who can demonstrate:
  • A track record of successful leadership and communication across diverse teams and cohorts.
  • Strong understanding of the consumer, and consumer behaviour with a strategic edge
  • Will relentlessly pursue opportunities for growth and make ambitious decisions to improve their business unit area.
  • Strong understanding of data and making data informed decisions
  • People focused and able to create and embed a positive and transformational people culture.
  • Driven, tenacious, action orientated and motivated by identifying and maximising opportunities.

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.

Benefits

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
• Company Car allowance of £8000
• 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