Store Manager

Asda Stores Ltd; Swaffham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Discretionary bonus

Electric car scheme

Eye tests

Pension

Wellbeing and EAP

Inclusion networks

Parental leave

Colleague recognition

Staff discounts

Job summary

Asda Stores Ltd in Swaffham is seeking a Store Manager to lead daily supermarket operations, optimise stock availability, reduce waste, and drive productivity. You will coach a team to maintain high standards, ensure safety, and deliver a seamless shopping experience for customers.

You will implement strategies, monitor KPIs, and lead with heart to foster a supportive, high-performing culture while achieving commercial targets and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Experience as Store Manager or Duty Manager in a fast-paced retail environment.
• Strong operational knowledge across food and non-food departments.
• Track record of improving availability, reducing waste, and managing shrink.
• Proven ability to develop teams and manage change through leadership and resilience.
• Experience handling complex ER cases and understanding HR policies and processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning strategy and execution of day-to-day store operations.
• Maximise availability, minimise waste and shrink, and ensure safety and efficiency.
• Coach and develop the team to deliver consistent standards and drive productivity.
• Ensure compliance, store standards, and legal requirements are met on the shop floor.

Skills

Store Management

Operational Planning

People Leadership

ER Handling

HR Policies

Change Leadership

Organisational Skills

Job description

Job Title Store Manager Location Swaffham 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 20 October 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 store's 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.

Are you ready to take the lead and be driving force behind one of our Supermarkets?

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

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