Lead Night Manager

Job Title: Lead Night Manager

Location: Eastlands

Employment Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours per Week: 45

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits

Closing Date: 15 July 2026

Overview

At Asda, we want you to Find Your Everything and as our Lead Night Manager in our larger format stores, you will manage and lead the night team to keep everything running whilst the rest of the world sleeps, ensuring we are delivering the best availability and highest shop floor standards across all departments, whilst ensuring our store remains safe and legal for our customers and colleagues. Given the increased complexity of our larger stores, our Lead Night Manager will be accountable for all night planning and execution of activity. As part of the leadership team, you'll work a rolling rota and 4 nights over 7 including weekend working. You will be solely responsible for the store through the night, and therefore you'll need to be confident in overseeing operation as a whole where store is open 24 hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the night team to keep the store running and deliver optimal availability and shop floor standards.
• Ensure the store remains safe, legal, and presentable for customers and colleagues.
• Accountable for all night planning and execution of activity.
• Work a rolling rota and 4 nights over 7, including weekend shifts.
• Oversee the store's operation when it is open 24 hours.
• Plan and execute all trading activity on the shop floor during the night shift, ensuring delivery is date rotated and waste and returns are managed correctly to limit damage through replenishment.
• Ensure the shop floor is landed and presentable for customers before handing over to the day team, with modular activity well executed and POS up to date.

Key Qualities

• Drive strategy into action: translate strategy into operational plans.
• Lead with impact: coach night colleagues and team leaders to deliver excellent shop floor standards and a culture of service.
• Execution-focused: maintain a presentable shop floor and accurate POS before handover.
• Talent Development: listen with empathy, drive resilience, encourage ownership, focus, and passion for the business, supporting team development and creating a valued, trusted, motivated environment.

Qualifications

• Experience managing teams in a large-format retail grocery environment, ideally overnight.
• Ability to make decisions independently with a hands on attitude and a drive to improve processes and people.
• Confidence in developing large teams and managing change.
• Strong customer service focus.
• Flexibility to work a range of night shifts, including weekends.

Benefits

• Colleague discount: 15% off 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 more.
• Company pension.
• Wellbeing: 24/7 virtual GP, 24/7 EAP service, 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.

Apply today and find your everything at Asda.