Senior Buyer - Floorcare
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Non Food
Closing date: 31 July 2025
Requisition ID: 400006556
Why join us
Joining Argos as a Senior Buyer offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within our Floorcare, Irons, and Seasonal Electricals category. Managing a turnover of £350m and collaborating with renowned brands such as Dyson, Vax, and Shark, you'll have the chance to shape and implement a customer-driven strategic vision. Your expertise in buying, range planning, supplier management, and market trends will be instrumental in delivering a differentiated product proposition that sets us apart in the market. With a focus on continuous improvement and driving profitability, you will be part of a dynamic and supportive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Join us and be part of a leading retail organisation where your skills and contributions can make a real difference in the success of our business.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Buyer at Argos, you will play a pivotal role in translating the category strategy into actionable plans to deliver profitable growth for your assigned ranges. You will be responsible for creating and implementing a customer-driven strategic vision, understanding market trends and competitors through collaboration with Insight and CMI teams. Your role will involve collaborating with UK Design teams and Product Development to deliver the own brand proposition, ensuring well-designed ranges that differentiate Argos in the market. You will work closely with global brands to influence their product offers and build a credible curated customer proposition. Additionally, you will be accountable for managing pricing, developing joint business plans with suppliers, and navigating negotiations on costing. In conjunction with Merchandising teams, you will monitor market trends, competitor activity, pricing, and stock availability, making data-driven decisions to maximise sales, profitability, and market share. As a leader, you will manage and develop a high-performing team, drive commercial successes, and foster a culture of development and progression. Overall, your expertise, commercial acumen, and strategic mindset will contribute to the success of your ranges and the achievement of key performance indicators.
Essential Criteria
- Based at our London Store Support Centre on average 2 days per week with occasional travel to our other locations and suppliers
- Previous Buying experience within a similar category
- Previous experience managing a team
- Previous experience of working within a commercial team in a large retailer
- Proven track record of delivering results to target as an individual and a team
- Experience of looking after a large category and a wide supply base
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
