Asda
Wholesale Operations Manager
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent, Freelance / Contract
Location:
Leeds, UK
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
16 October 2026
What they need
- Job Reference Code: R-108926
- Employment Type: Full time
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 37.5
- Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits
- Closing Date: 29 October 2026
Wholesale Operations ManagerStore Management
Role Summary
Manage the day to day delivery of wholesale operations, ensuring excellent customer service, operational performance, and financial control, while building strong customer relationships and driving continuous improvement across the wholesale business
What You'll Do
- Manage day-to-day wholesale operational delivery.
- Act as primary account manager for key existing wholesale customers.
- Ensure supply chain performance and issue resolution.
- Manage billing processes and financial reconciliation activities.
- Monitor contract compliance and service delivery.
- Coordinate forecasting, stock availability, and replenishment activities.
- Lead operational reviews with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Manage operational projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Track performance against service, sales, and profitability targets.
- Resolve customer escalations and operational risks.
Leadership
Build strong customer relationships at operational and management levels.
Coordinate activity across Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Commercial teams.
Scope
Responsibility for key wholesale customer relationships.
Direct ownership of operational execution and financial controls.
Significant influence on customer retention and service performance.
About You
- Experience in onboarding and managing wholesale customers and operational delivery within a wholesale, retail, FMCG environment
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate activity across Commercial, Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, IT, Procurement, Marketing, Legal and HR teams
- Proven experience building relationships with customers and external stakeholders, including senior customer contacts and business leaders
- Experience managing operational performance, service levels, customer issues and continuous improvement initiatives
- Strong commercial and financial awareness, including forecasting, stock management, billing and performance reporting
- Ability to lead projects and deliver results through influence rather than direct authority
- Excellent communication, problem solving and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience supporting business growth, customer retention and service improvement initiatives.
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 to 7% matched
- Company Car allowance of £5,700
- 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
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Location
Great Wilson Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, LS11 5AD
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Why Asda?
We’re a really values-led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone’s input. We get on with things, we make them happen. As so many people across the UK rely on us, we have to.
Our Creating Change for Better programme tackles the major challenges facing our business and society today and guides our efforts on where we can make the biggest difference by reducing our environmental footprint, creating healthier products and supporting our communities.
Big businesses like ours offer big opportunities. With more than 1,000 stores across the UK, from superstores and Asda Living to petrol stations, as well as depots and Express stores. £60m+ in revenue taken every day. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles 2 million transactions a month. And 75% of the UK shop in Asda every year.
Be yourself at Asda
We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome, valued and able to achieve their potential.
We want every candidate to have a fair opportunity to show us what they can bring to the role. If you need any support or adjustments during the recruitment process, we'll work with you to make sure you have the support you need.
Need support? Visit our Help Page, select the People Services icon and choose Candidate Query. Tell us how we can help.
Rewards and Recognition
Benefits you’ll only find here
10% off Asda pet insurance
10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services
10% off Asda Tyres
10% off Asda Travel insurance
20% off Asda Mobile bundles
Free remote GP service
Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.
Pension
Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.
Free physiotherapy consultations
Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.
Colleague discounts
15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.
Car cash allowance
Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.
(*Conditions apply)
Mortgage advice
Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.
Confidential support helpline
Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.
Cycle to work
Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.
Financial support
Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.
Free eye tests
Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.
Bonus
Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.
Cancer support
Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.
Paid time off
From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.
Mental health support
Access free mental health support for you and your family.
Support and advice with care
If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.
Hybrid working
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. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots
Save money on every day spends
Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more
Setting your loved ones up for the future
As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.
Guaranteed contracted hours
All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.
Holiday buying
Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).
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