Ambient Manager

Location: Totton (Southampton)

Employment Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Shift Pattern: Work Shift: Days, Hours per Week: 45

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits

Closing Date: 2 July 2026

Asda seeks an Ambient Manager to play a vital role in the day to day running of all areas of the Ambient department in store, delivering the best availability and highest shop floor standards through brilliant execution whilst ensuring the store is safe and legal for our customers and colleagues. The role involves leading the shrink agenda through your Ambient team, driving standards and inputs, and acting on opportunities with clear actions.

• Drive strategy into action: Planning and executing all trading activity on the shopfloor, delivering great availability standards, key metrics and KRAs through routine and processes.
• Lead with impact: Engaging and coaching your team to constantly improve routine and process whilst creating a culture of serving with personality and getting one more item in every basket.
• Results focused: Ensuring shopfloor and promotional activity are landed to brief and on time to drive the store selling agenda by ensuring products are available in the aisle as well as on promotional end/shipper.
• Talent Development: Listening with empathy, driving resilience and encouraging ownership, focus and passion for the business by bringing the "Asdaness" to work every day and supporting the development of the team, creating an environment where people feel valued, trusted and motivated to step up.

• Experience as Team Leader or Supervisor in a retail environment.
• Operational knowledge of food or non food departments.
• Knowledge of improving availability, reducing waste and managing shrink.
• Experience developing teams and managing change through leadership and building resilience.
• Strong organisational skills and great customer service.

• 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, 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.

Find out more about what you'll love at Asda and the opportunities to grow within one of our Superstores or centres.