We're looking for a Lead Manager - Online Grocery Trading to join us and help drive the performance and growth of our online grocery business. You'll be responsible for delivering a multi-billion-pound online sales plan across Food and General Merchandise, ensuring customers enjoy a seamless shopping experience while maximising commercial performance.

Working at the heart of our eCommerce operation, you'll lead trading activity across key categories, collaborate with senior stakeholders across the business, and partner with suppliers to drive online sales, basket growth, and customer engagement.

What You'll Be Doing

Deliver and optimise online trading plans to drive sales growth and performance.
Lead the execution of key business events and promotional activity across Asda.com.
Work closely with Commercial, Marketing, Data & Insights, Product, Operations and external partners to deliver business objectives.
Partner with suppliers to maximise online opportunities and revenue growth.
Enhance the online customer journey and overall shopping experience.
Monitor and analyse trading performance, identifying opportunities to improve key metrics such as conversion and sales.
Support the development of new tools, processes and ways of working that improve team efficiency.

What You'll Bring

Strong commercial and trading mindset with the ability to make decisions at pace.
Experience managing multiple stakeholders and building effective relationships across functions and suppliers.
Data-driven approach with the ability to interpret performance insights and turn them into actions.
Experience using reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI, Adobe Analytics or similar platforms.
A proactive, adaptable approach with a passion for problem solving and continuous improvement.
The ability to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving retail environment.

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a leading role in one of the UK's largest online grocery businesses, influencing trading strategy, customer experience and commercial performance at scale while working with a broad network of senior stakeholders across the organisation.

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

Hiring process

2 steps·1 interview·a task to do

Apply online
Online assessments
Online test · Not every role
An online assessment for certain roles, to help you understand more about the role.
Interview and assessment
With a hiring manager
Getting to know how you align with Asda's values and the key skills for the role, in person or virtual depending on location and timescales; some roles go to an assessment centre, in one or two stages.
Offer or feedback · With a hiring manager

Expect an update on your application within 10 days.
Asda aims to interview 1-2 weeks after the closing date.
Asda aims to give feedback within one week of your interview.

About Asda

Asda is a large retail business that describes itself as "Reimagining Retail", operating in the retail industry with a validated focus on retail, technology and head-office roles.

According to its careers site, it is "a big business" offering far more role types than the familiar customer-facing ones, and it says that "because our business is changing we're creating new roles all the time".

Industry: Retail, technology and head-office roles
Website: asda.com

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