LocationAsda House
Employment TypeFull time
Contract TypePermanent
Hours per Week37.5
Salary
Competitive Salary plus benefits
CategoryLearning and Development
Closing Date15 December 2025
Senior Manager, Leadership & Talent Development
At Asda, we’re redefining how we develop and empower leaders. We’re seeking a Senior Manager to design, deliver, and embed enterprise-wide career pathways and a connected talent ecosystem that will shape the future of our business
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End-to-end ownership of leadership development from front-line leader to executive succession.
Design and embed talent development pathways for emerging talent, high potentials, successors, and senior leaders.
Lead a team of experts across leadership, talent, and systems.
Integrate leadership and talent frameworks into Workday (Talent, Performance, Skills Cloud, Learning).
Drive cultural change through leadership behaviour, routines, and capability building.
Deliver enterprise-wide talent processes: performance cycles, talent reviews, succession calibration, capability reporting.
Use insight and analytics to identify risks and shape interventions.
Influence senior leadership with clear, simple recommendations.
Create operating rhythms aligning talent and leadership with business performance.
Lets find out about you
Demonstrable experience leading large-scale leadership and talent initiatives.
Hands-on expertise with Workday Talent & Performance.
Strong understanding of leadership frameworks, behaviour change, and cultural transformation.
Credibility with Exec-level stakeholders.
Experience leading and developing specialist teams.
High judgement, excellent storytelling, and strong organisational awareness.
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 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
Company Car allowance of £8000
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
