Job Title Senior Manager Leadership & Talent Development Location Asda House Employment Type Full time Contract Type Permanent Hours per Week 37.5 Salary Competitive Salary plus benefits Category Learning and Development Closing Date 15 December 2025 Senior Manager, Leadership & Talent Development At Asda, we’re redefining how we develop and empower leaders. We’re seeki ng 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 Find your role 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