Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Competitive salary plus benefits
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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.
Provide specialist expertise during site selection, acquisitions, refits, and new store planning to ensure refrigeration feasibility, optimal layouts, and long‑term operational cost benefits.
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.
Develop robust business cases for refrigeration investments, support annual budgeting and long‑range financial planning and assist in securing funding through executive approval.
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.
Ensure all refrigeration assets, installations, and operations adhere to F‑gas regulations, environmental standards, safety legislation, and industry best practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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