Ambient Manager

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 6 May 2026
LOCATION
Manchester
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Retail
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Retail management Team leadership Inventory management Shrink reduction Customer service Operational planning Coaching Availability management

FULL DESCRIPTION

Ambient Manager

Company: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]
Location: Civic Ctr, Manchester, United Kingdom, M22 5HZ
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits
Closing Date: 18 May 2026

About the Role

At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], we want you to Find Your Everything as an Ambient Manager. You’ll play a vital role in the day-to-day running of all areas of the Ambient department in store by delivering the best availability and highest shop floor standards through brilliant execution whilst ensuring the store is safe and legal for our customer and colleagues. You will lead the shrink agenda through your Ambient team, driving standards and inputs as well as acting on opportunities with clear actions.

What qualities you’ll need

  • 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 get one more item in every basket.
  • Results-focused: Ensuring shopfloor and promotional activity is 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: Listen with empathy, driving resilience and encourage ownership, focus and passion for the business by bringing the “Asdaness” to work every day and supporting the development of the team and creating an environment where people feel valued, trusted, and motivated to step up.

What you’ll bring

  • Experience as Team Leader or Supervisor in a retail environment.
  • Operational knowledge on 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.

Everything you'll love

Alongside a competitive salary, you'll get lots of other great benefits too, including colleague discount, discretionary bonus, pension, wellbeing support, and more.

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