Senior Buying Manager - Food

Job Title

Senior Buying Manager - Food

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary

Category

Allocation

Closing Date

18 June 2026

 

At Asda, we are on an accelerated growth journey to transform our business and we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Buying Manager.

Our Food division is at the heart of our ambitious transformation and growth plans over the next 3 years, and this is an exciting team to join the team and be part of this journey!

As The Senior Buying Manager You Will

• Act as a business owner, lead and manage the buying department, including influencing a diverse portfolio of capabilities across buying and commercial operations
• Create and maintain a deep understanding of the customer in all decision making
• Manage and drive end to end ownership of the category P&L and budgets
• Be responsible for the development and execution of the long term category strategy and plan, aligned to the enterprise commercial strategy across all channels
• Source and collaborate with suppliers and manage costs, ensuring Asda is the retailer of choice for suppliers
• Own all range, pricing, promotions, stock and trading activity and decisions for the category, across all channels
• Work collaboratively with wider business stakeholders and functions to align and deliver the business unit plans
• Lead and achieve transformation and change projects on behalf of Asda to ensure maximum commercial and customer success
   

“Let's Find Out About You”

As well as demonstrable experience of working in fast paced and complex retail environments, you’ll have:

• Ability to balance financial, operational and customer delivery with experience of owning and leading an end-to-end P&L
• Proven experience of working at a Senior Commercial Leadership level
• Ability to demonstrate strong strategic commercial acumen, including:
• Developing and delivering a 3-year strategy
• A deep consideration of macro-economic trends
• Agility to move between short term and strategic thinking.
• Broad and enterprise decision making
• Keeping up to date with the external market trends
• Well rounded, forward thinking commercial business leader, who can demonstrate:
• A track record of successful leadership and communication across diverse teams and cohorts.
• Strong understanding of the consumer, and consumer behaviour with a strategic edge
• Will relentlessly pursue opportunities for growth and make ambitious decisions to improve their business unit area.
• Strong understanding of data and making data informed decisions
• People focused and able to create and embed a positive and transformational people culture.
• Driven, tenacious, action orientated and motivated by identifying and maximising opportunities.