Job Title
Healthcare Area Manager - Cambridgeshire and Anglia
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
Category
Regional Management (RLA)
Closing Date
25 September 2025
Location
Cambridgeshire & Anglia
Overview
The role of the Healthcare Area Manager is to manage our Optical and Pharmacy in-store departments, ensuring they are safe, legal and profitable. The Healthcare Area Manager will become the subject matter expert in Pharmacy & Optical operations, overseeing the implementation of the corporate strategy through direct line management of our Healthcare Professionals. You will help to support the development of divisional and regional operational strategies, driving the delivery of the defined Optical and Pharmacy KPIs by creating robust action plans, coaching through to implementation and holding your team accountable in meeting performance outputs. You will identify opportunities for growth across the Optical and Pharmacy business through regular performance reviews with an eye for changes in the local market.
Your role
The Healthcare Area Manager will be responsible for completing regular commercial and compliance-focused visits across their Optical and Pharmacy units, identifying opportunities, seeking resolution or escalating to stakeholders as appropriate. You will manage the end-to-end resourcing process to ensure Optical and Pharmacy departments are able to serve customers effectively. This includes managing resourcing KPIs, base contract reviews, professional recruitment, management of employment costs and facilitation of locum management and performance feedback. You will be a key business partner to both the Optical and Pharmacy Superintendents, liaising with stores teams to assist in risk assessing and completing actions assigned in any incident review. This role has multiple internal and external stakeholders. The Healthcare Area Manager should be adaptable in communication styles and credible in delivery across a broad range of experience and qualifications.
About You
We want all colleagues to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Our aim is for colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves. The Healthcare Area Manager will have the freedom and autonomy to create plans and coach store teams to deliver in role.
Essential Skills:
* An inspirational leader with a demonstrated history of coaching and managing change.
* Commercial acumen with a proven track record of interpreting data, delivering commercial and operational KPIs
* Ability to prioritise and manage timelines, working in a fast-paced environment
* Previous leadership experience, managing teams through the line with a retail or operational background
Desirable Skills:
* Previous Area/Field management experience across retail or healthcare backgrounds
* An understanding and knowledge of the subject matter area
Role Flexibility
This role is field based and requires regional mobility within a defined geographic area across our retail regions, with weekend rota cover as part of the schedule.
Everything you'll love
To balance collaboration with flexibility, Asda has a hybrid working approach with a minimum of 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Some areas may require additional days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also receive 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 Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, plus discounts across services and activities
* Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to be included and celebrated
* Excellent parental leave policies including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for fertility treatments
We want all colleagues 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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