Store Manager

Asda Stores Ltd; North East; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Discretionary bonus

Electric car scheme

Eye test

Pension plan

Wellbeing support

Inclusion networks

Parental leave

Colleague recognition

Job summary

Asda Stores Ltd is seeking an experienced Store Manager to lead the planning strategy and execution of day-to-day supermarket operations at Asda Living Durham. You will maximise availability, minimise waste and shrink, and drive an efficient, safe store.

You will coach your team to deliver consistent standards and strong customer service with a heart-led leadership style. You will guide stock routines, compliance, and incident-free operations while creating a respectful, open environment that

Qualifications

• Experience as Store Manager or Duty Manager in a fast-paced retail environment.
• Strong operational knowledge across food and non-food departments.
• Proven track record of improving availability and reducing waste.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning strategy and execution of day-to-day operations across key departments.
• Drive availability, minimise waste and shrink, and ensure store runs safely and efficiently.
• Coach and develop your team to deliver high standards and customer service.

Skills

Store management

Operations leadership

People management

HR policy knowledge

ER experience

Organizational skills

Customer service

Job description

Job Title

Store Manager

Job Details

• Location: Asda Living Durham
• Employment Type: Full time
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Shift Pattern: Work Shift: Days
• Hours per Week: 45
• Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits
• Closing Date: 17 September 2026

Job Description

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.

What you’ll bring

• 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.

Benefits

• 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

About Asda

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