- Job Reference Code: R-106838
- Employment Type: Full time
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 37.5
- Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits
- Closing Date: 30 September 2026
Refrigeration ManagerHead Office*
"Let's find your Role" The Refrigeration Manager is responsible for shaping and delivering Asda’s refrigeration strategy, ensuring all new sites, upgrades and models support long‑term efficiency, sustainability, and operational excellence. The role provides input into site selection and store design, leads system specification and oversees project implementation. They will also oversee the performance, compliance, and lifecycle management of the refrigeration estate. Working closely with property, construction, operations, sustainability, and external partners, the Refrigeration Manager ensures that all refrigeration solutions are safe, cost‑effective, energy‑efficient, and aligned with the business’s strategic growth plans.
You will:
1. Refrigeration Strategy Development
Lead the creation and continuous refinement of the long‑term refrigeration strategy, ensuring alignment with future f-gas regulations, cost‑efficiency targets, operational performance and energy‑reduction initiatives.
2. Estate Planning & Site Selection Input
Provide specialist expertise during site selection, acquisitions, refits, and new store planning to ensure refrigeration feasibility, optimal layouts, and long‑term operational cost benefits.
3. Refrigeration System Design Leadership
Work closely with external consultants to define standards for system architecture (e.g., CO₂ systems, natural refrigerants, heat recovery) and work with internal stakeholders and external consultants to ensure designs meet efficiency, compliance, and business requirements.
4. Capital Investment Planning
Develop robust business cases for refrigeration investments, support annual budgeting and long‑range financial planning and assist in securing funding through executive approval.
5. Project Delivery & Implementation Oversight
Oversee end‑to‑end delivery of refrigeration projects—from scoping and tendering to installation and commissioning—ensuring they meet technical specifications, quality standards, timelines, and budget expectations.
6. Compliance & Regulatory Assurance
Ensure all refrigeration assets, installations, and operations adhere to F‑gas regulations, environmental standards, safety legislation, and industry best practice.
7. Contractor & Supplier Management and Procurement
Working with Asda procurement team, select, evaluate, and govern refrigeration contractors/consultants and manage day to day relationships. Drive performance, negotiate strategic agreements, and foster continuous improvement across the supply chain.
8. Asset Performance & Optimisation
Working closely with City FM, monitor estate wide refrigeration performance data to identify efficiency improvements, reliability risks, and proactive upgrade opportunities. Lead optimisation initiatives to reduce downtime, energy consumption, and maintenance costs.
9. Cross‑Functional Collaboration
Act as the refrigeration subject‑matter expert across property, store operations, maintenance, energy, and sustainability teams. Influence decision‑making and embed refrigeration considerations throughout key business processes.
10. Innovation & Futureproofing
Drive the evaluation and adoption of emerging refrigeration technologies, digital monitoring solutions, and sustainability innovations (e.g., natural refrigerants, energy recovery, predictive maintenance) to maintain competitive advantage. Through effective use of industry contacts and networking.
"Let's find out about you"
- Detailed understanding of HFO and CO2 refrigeration systems.
- UK recognised qualifications in Refrigeration & Air Condition systems.
- Experience of planning refrigeration system projects in a retail environment.
- Project Management
- Cost & Budget Management
- Compliance & Legislation
- Forecasting
- Managing Contractor, Consultants & Suppliers
- Stakeholder Engagement across all teams including internal and external stakeholders
- Strategic Thinking and Planning
- MCIOB – Member of the chartered institute of building (Desirable)
- Prince 2 or equivalent Project Management certificate (Desirable)
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 to 7% matched
- Company Car allowance of £5,700
- 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
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Location
Great Wilson Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, LS11 5AD
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Why Asda?
We’re a really values-led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone’s input. We get on with things, we make them happen. As so many people across the UK rely on us, we have to.
Our Creating Change for Better programme tackles the major challenges facing our business and society today and guides our efforts on where we can make the biggest difference by reducing our environmental footprint, creating healthier products and supporting our communities.
Big businesses like ours offer big opportunities. With more than 1,000 stores across the UK, from superstores and Asda Living to petrol stations, as well as depots and Express stores. £60m+ in revenue taken every day. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles 2 million transactions a month. And 75% of the UK shop in Asda every year.
Rewards and Recognition
Benefits you’ll only find here
10% off Asda pet insurance
10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services
10% off Asda Tyres
10% off Asda Travel insurance
20% off Asda Mobile bundles
Free remote GP service
Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.
Pension
Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.
Free physiotherapy consultations
Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.
Colleague discounts
15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.
Car cash allowance
Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.
(*Conditions apply)
Mortgage advice
Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.
Confidential support helpline
Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.
Cycle to work
Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.
Financial support
Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.
Free eye tests
Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.
Bonus
Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.
Cancer support
Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.
Paid time off
From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.
Mental health support
Access free mental health support for you and your family.
Support and advice with care
If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.
Hybrid working
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. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots
Save money on every day spends
Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more
Setting your loved ones up for the future
As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.
Guaranteed contracted hours
All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.
Holiday buying
Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).
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