Regional Operations Manager - North

Job Title Regional Operations Manager - North Location Asda House (Fieldbased) Employment Type Full time Contract Type Permanent Hours per Week 37.5 Salary Competitive Salary plus benefits Category Corporate Store Operations Closing Date 11 November 2026

About the role

You will be responsible for leading, coaching and developing a team of Express Area Managers to deliver great service, colleague engagement and operational excellence. You will ensure your portfolio of stores are number one locally, evidenced through profitable growth alongside delivery of clearly defined KRAs commercial awareness of the local market. You will role model and champion the Asda values and our Leading Asda behaviours, setting high expectations of the leadership team to act in the same way. It will be your responsibility to implement and embed change initiatives and new ways of working, while ensuring all stores are operating in a safe, legal and compliant manner in accordance with convenience company policies and procedures. This role is field based for which the Regional Manager - Express is expected to be regionally mobile within a defined geographic area across our retail regions, working to provide weekend cover on a rota.

About you

You will be able to work in a fast-paced environment, be adaptable to and lead from the front our change programmes, as well as having an eye for detail and an ability to execute plans first time. This role requires you to have considerable knowledge of store operations, multi-site, store processes and policy as well as a commercial awareness of the local market, competition, and trends within the region. You will look for opportunities to drive your areas performance forward whilst ruthlessly prioritising workload to ensure stores deliver best in class customer experience. You will be able to engage with others through great communications skills, build good relationships across large teams and have influence.

Everything you'll love

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 one of our Home Offices. 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.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
• Company Car allowance of £8000
• 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, enhanced 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

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. Find your everything at Asda.