Store Manager

Asda; East Hagbourne; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount 15% off shopping at

Discretionary company bonus

Electric car scheme

Eye test for you and nominated user

Pension

Wellbeing services

Inclusion networks

Parental leave policies

Recognition programme

Special offers and discounts

Job summary

Asda is seeking a Store Manager to lead the planning and execution of daily supermarket operations across multiple departments in Didcot. You will maximise product availability, minimise waste, and drive a culture of safety, service, and high standards on the shop floor.

You will coach and develop your team, manage change with resilience, and ensure HR policies are understood and applied. The role emphasizes customer focus, open communication, and the delivery of the store's selling agenda with

Qualifications

• Experience as Store Manager or Duty Manager in a fast-paced retail environment.
• Strong operational knowledge across food and non-food departments.
• A track record of improving availability, reducing waste, and managing shrink.
• Proven record of developing teams and managing change through leadership and building resilience.
• Experience managing complex ER cases and confidence in understanding HR policies and processes.
• Strong organisational skills and exceeding customer service.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning strategy and execution of day-to-day operations across key departments to maximise availability and minimise waste.
• Drive store performance by coaching teams, setting standards, and ensuring safety and compliance on the shop floor.
• Implement processes for stock routines, compliance, and customer service to improve productivity and efficiency.
• Inspire a culture of service with heart, listening to employees, and fostering open, respectful conversations.
• Utilise data and KRAs to drive action on trading activity, availability, shrink, and customer value.

Skills

Store management

Operational knowledge

Shrink management

Team development

HR policies

Customer service

Organizational skills

Job description

Job Title

Store Manager

Location

Didcot Great Western Park

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

24 November 2026

As our Store Manager, you’ll lead the planning strategy and execution of our supermarket’s day-to-day operations across key departments. You’ll ensure that availability is maximised, waste and shrink are minimised, and our store runs efficiently and safely. You’ll lead and coach your team to deliver consistent standards, drive productivity, and ensure our store is always ready for customers. Whether it’s stock routines, or compliance, you’ll be the driving force behind operational excellence. As a Store Manager, you lead with heart as well as results. You build self-esteem by recognising effort, attitude, and growth, creating an environment where people feel valued, trusted, and motivated to step up. You listen with empathy, respond with care, and create space for open, respectful conversations on the shop floor and beyond. You’re transparent in your decisions, clearly sharing the “why” and inviting your team to solve challenges together. You support your team by coaching through questions, encouraging ownership, and celebrating initiative. You believe in creating a culture of always serving with heart and pride, driving the stores selling agenda with healthy competition across the trading floor by bringing the “Asdaness” to work every day.

What makes a brilliant Store Manager: Drive strategy into action: Planning and identifying opportunities to improve trading activity on the shopfloor, delivering great availability standards, key metrics and KRAs through routine and processes. Execution and result-focused: You’re passionate about getting things done right, first time, every time displaying resilience, focus and passion for the business and holding your team to account. Commercial awareness: You understand how the right strategy, availability, waste, and shrink impact performance—and you know how to improve them, leading the shrink agenda through the team and driving standards and inputs as well as acting on opportunity with clear actions. Ensure POS one best way is followed across the store delivering strong value message for our customers. Coaching and Leadership: Coach and support your leadership team on delivering brilliant shopfloor standards and develop our future talent by engaging and coaching your team to constantly improve routine and process whilst creating a culture of serving our customers with personality, heart and pride, and get one more item in every basket. Organised and efficient: You thrive in a fast-paced environment and know how to prioritise and delegate effectively. Data-driven: You use insights to make informed decisions and drive operational improvements, lead the shrink agenda by driving standards and ensure the store remains legal and complaint for customer and colleagues.

• Experience as Store Manager or Duty Manager in a fast-paced retail environment.
• Strong operational knowledge across food and non-food departments.
• A track record of improving availability, reducing waste, and managing shrink.
• Proven record of developing teams and managing change through leadership and building resilience.
• Experience managing complex ER cases and confidence in understanding HR policies and processes.
• Strong organisational skills and exceeding customer service.

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

There’s a lot more to Asda than meets the aisle. We’re a big player in our world with a mission to be the UK’s best fresh food and clothing superstore. How? By giving ordinary working people and their families what they need for their shopping - real value. That means you get to make a difference in our customers’ lives. From the tills, the office, or on the road, the scale of everything we deliver is huge. And that means the scale of opportunities for your career is just as big. Whether you're in store, on the road or behind the scenes, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow and make a real impact.