Store Manager

Job Title Store Manager Location Swaffham Employment Type Full time Contract Type Permanent Shift Pattern Work Shift: Days Hours per Week 45 Salary Competitive salary plus benefits Category Store Management Closing Date 20 October 2026   As our  Store Manager , you’ll lead the planning strategy and execution of our supermarket’s day-to-day operations across key departments. You’ll ensure that availability is maximised, waste and shrink are minimised, and our store runs efficiently and safely. You’ll lead and coach your team to deliver consistent standards, drive productivity, and ensure our store is always ready for customers. Whether it’s stock routines, or compliance, you’ll be the driving force behind operational excellence. As a Store Manager, you lead with heart as well as results. You build self-esteem by recognising effort, attitude, and growth, creating an environment where people feel valued, trusted, and motivated to step up. You listen with empathy, respond with care, and create space for open, respectful conversations on the shop floor and beyond. You’re transparent in your decisions, clearly sharing the “why” and inviting your team to solve challenges together. You support your team by coaching through questions, encouraging ownership, and celebrating initiative. You believe in creating a culture of always serving with heart and pride, driving the stores selling agenda with healthy competition across the trading floor by bringing the “Asdaness” to work every day. What makes a brilliant Store Manager:   Drive strategy into action: Planning and identifying opportunities to improve trading activity on the shopfloor, delivering great availability standards, key metrics and KRAs through routine and processes. Execution and result-focused : You’re passionate about getting things done right, first time, every time displaying resilience, focus and passion for the business and holding your team to account. Commercial awareness : You understand how the right strategy, availability, waste, and shrink impact performance—and you know how to improve them, leading the shrink agenda through the team and driving standards and inputs as well as acting on opportunity with clear actions. Ensure POS one best way is followed across the store delivering strong value message for our customers. Coaching and Leadership : Coach and support your leadership team on delivering brilliant shopfloor standards and develop our future talent by engaging and coaching your team to constantly improve routine and process whilst creating a culture of serving our customers with personality, heart and pride, and get one more item in every basket. Organised and efficient : You thrive in a fast-paced environment and know how to prioritise and delegate effectively.  Data-driven : You use insights to make informed decisions and drive operational improvements, lead the shrink agenda by driving standards and ensure the store remains legal and complaint for…