Night Manager Position in Reading - Full-Time Retail Management

Are you looking to start your career as a Night Manager Position in Reading - Full-Time Retail Management in Reading? Asda is currently hiring local talent for this position!

Summary

As a Night Manager at Asda, you will lead the night team to ensure store operations run smoothly overnight, maintaining high standards of availability, shop floor presentation, and safety. This role requires independent decision-making and a proactive approach to managing the store during the night shift.

Job Title

Night Manager

Location

Lower Earley

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Shift Pattern

Work Shift: Nights

Hours per Week

45

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Store Management

Closing Date

1 September 2026

At Asda, we want you to Find Your Everything and as our Night Manager, you will manage and lead the night team to keep everything running whilst the rest of the world sleeps, ensuring we are delivering the best availability and highest shop floor standards across all departments, whilst ensuring our store remains safe and legal for our customers and colleagues.

As part of the leadership team, you'll work a rolling rota and 4 nights over 7 including weekend working. You will be solely responsible for the store through the night, and therefore you'll need to be confident in overseeing operation as a whole where store is open 24 hours.

What qualities you’ll need:

  • Drive strategy into action: Planning and executing all trading activity on the shopfloor during night shift by ensuring delivery is date rotated and waste and returns are managed correctly limiting damage through replenishment. (only for Supermarket and Superstores/centres with no Lead Night Manager in structure)
  • Lead with impact: Leading and coaching night colleagues and team leaders to deliver excellent shopfloor standards whilst creating a culture of selling our customers with personality, serving with heart and pride, and get one more item in every basket.
  • Execution-focused: Ensuring shopfloor is landed and presentable for customers before handing over to day team with promotion, Foyer and hot spots fit for trade.
  • 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 supervising or managing teams in a retail grocery environment, ideally overnight.
  • Ability to make decisions independently with a hands-on attitude and a drive to improve processes and people.
  • Confidence in developing teams and managing change.
  • Strong customer service focus.
  • Flexibility to work a range of night shifts, including weekends.

Are you ready to be the guiding force behind a critical shift, leading with strength and fostering growth in others? Apply today and find your everything at Asda.

Everything you'll love

Alongside a competitive salary, you'll get lots of other great benefits too, including:

  • 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, as well as 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

Benefits

  • Performance Bonus
  • Health Insurance
  • Retirement Plan
  • Flexible Hours
  • Education Support

Responsibilities

Manage and lead the night team to keep everything running whilst the rest of the world sleeps, ensuring we are delivering the best availability and highest shop floor standards across all departments, whilst ensuring our store remains safe and legal for our customers and colleagues. As part of the leadership team, you'll work a rolling rota and 4 nights over 7 including weekend working. You will be solely responsible for the store through the night, and therefore you'll need to be confident in overseeing operation as a whole where store is open 24 hours.

Key Aspects

Manage and lead the night team, ensure shop floor standards, manage replenishment, lead and coach colleagues, develop talent, make independent decisions, customer service focus, flexibility.

Apply for this Night Manager in Reading - Weekend role today via Placed.

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