Store Planning Manager

Asda Stores Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known retail company is seeking a Store Planning Manager to lead the planning and execution of store initiatives. This role requires strong collaboration skills and a focus on optimizing store layouts to enhance customer experience. The ideal candidate will have a proactive approach to problem-solving and a keen attention to detail. This position includes a competitive salary and benefits, with hybrid working arrangements requiring onsite presence in Leeds three days a week.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

Company car allowance of £5,700

15% colleague discount in store and online

Free access to wellbeing services

Excellent parental leave policies

Inclusion Networks support

Qualifications

• Experience in managing retail space planning.
• Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Proficient in CADS or a quick learner.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning initiatives for store development and trading projects.
• Ensure alignment of space allocation with trading requirements.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to optimize store layouts.

Skills

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Retail-first mindset

Proactivity

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Job description

Store Planning Manager

Location: Asda House

Employment Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits

Category: Design and Engineering

Closing Date: 1 January 2026

Your Role

As a Store Planning Manager - Trading Projects, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of ASDA’s store estate. Working within the Store Development team, you’ll be at the centre of how we plan, optimise, and evolve our in-store environments, ensuring they meet the needs of our customers today while anticipating the demands of tomorrow. You will lead the planning and execution of some of our most important trading initiatives – from existing space updates to new service propositions – translating business strategy into clear, actionable store plans. This means collaborating across multiple teams, transforming data and insight into compelling layouts, and driving projects that directly enhance the customer and colleague experience. A key part of your role will be to ensure that store spaces are used brilliantly and effectively. You’ll balance commercial ambition with operational reality, making smart decisions that maximise sales, improve flow, and support category growth. You’ll maintain accuracy across our store plans, lead discretionary space planning, and be a champion for retail‑first thinking across every plan and project. You’ll also be responsible for upholding strong governance around space, assets, and layout changes – ensuring clarity, consistency, and robust decision‑making across the estate. Through excellent communication, problem‑solving, and your ability to “join the dots”, you will enable cross‑functional teams to deliver at pace and with confidence.

Store & Space Planning

• Lead updates to existing store plans, ensuring accuracy and alignment with current trading requirements.
• Manage and deliver discretionary space planning, ensuring the right balance of space by category to optimise customer experience and sales.
• Produce and update space and range plans to support upcoming initiatives and business change.

Trading Project Leadership

• Own planning of key trading projects (e.g., front‑end transformation, service hubs, new trading formats).
• Join the dots across multiple functions to ensure seamless execution – from concept design through to store launch.
• Lead project governance, ensuring milestones, decisions, and risks are clearly communicated and managed.

Cross‑Team Enablement & Collaboration

• Work closely across Store Development and wider Property, Commercial, Central Operations, Modular / Floor Planning, and wider business teams.
• Act as a key connector, ensuring that plans are fully enabled, aligned, and delivered at pace.
• Bring clarity, insight, and structure to complex multi‑stakeholder work.

Governance

• Support the development, planning, and tracking of asset replacement programmes to ensure stores remain safe, efficient, and customer‑ready.
• Maintain robust processes across store development activities, ensuring adherence to standards.

About You

• Brings the best out of others: you thrive on working collaboratively and inspire teams to deliver their very best.
• Sees the bigger picture: you’re able to balance commercial, customer, and operational considerations.
• Joins the dots: you connect information, teams, and insights to create simple, actionable plans.
• Has strong attention to detail: ensuring plans, drawings, and execution steps are precise and robust.
• Has a retail‑first mindset: you understand what matters most to colleagues and customers in‑store.
• Is a natural problem‑solver: you cut through complexity and find smart, pragmatic solutions.
• Makes stuff happen: proactive, resilient, and brilliant at delivering at pace.
• Can work confidently with CADS (or is eager and quick to learn).
• Thrives in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment and embraces change with energy and positivity.

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 our Home Office in Leeds. 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

Everything you’ll love:

• Competitive salary plus benefits
• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company car allowance of £5,700
• 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 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.