Marketplace Trading Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 07 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400067327
At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation, you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.
At Argos, our Marketplace is a growing part of how we show up for customers, bringing together more choice, more sellers and more opportunities to shop in a way that works for them. Behind that is our Marketplace team, shaping trading activity that delivers strong commercial performance while keeping the customer experience front and centre.
The Marketplace Trading Manager sits right at the heart of that. It is a highly cross functional role, bringing together commercial planning, seller engagement and performance insight to shape and deliver trading activity across the Marketplace.
Working across Commercial, Trade Planning, Marketing, Digital, Retail Media and Finance, the role plays a key part in building and delivering the Marketplace trading plan. From identifying key trading moments to supporting campaign delivery and reviewing performance, the focus is on driving growth for both customers and the business.
It is a varied and fast-moving leadership role, with a strong focus on pace, collaboration and commercial thinking. A great opportunity for someone who enjoys influencing across teams, working through complexity and turning insight into action.
What You’ll Do
Own the Marketplace trading plan, identifying opportunities to drive growth and strengthen the customer proposition
Work cross functionally to align activity with wider Argos trading priorities and key events
Lead marketplace campaign planning, ensuring activity lands effectively across channels
Partner with sellers and internal teams to drive engagement and maximise participation
Track and review performance, using insight to shape future activity
Bring together updates, risks and opportunities to support clear decision making
Lead and develop a high performing Marketplace team, creating a culture of curiosity, ownership and pace
Who You Are
A strong commercial thinker with experience delivering trading or campaign led activity.
Confident working across a matrix environment, influencing stakeholders at all levels.
Analytical, with the ability to use data to shape decisions.
Collaborative and proactive, able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
A clear communicator who can simplify complexity and bring others with you.
A supportive leader who can develop and motivate a team
Essential Criteria
- Experience in a commercial, trading, marketplace or similar role
- Strong analytical capability and confidence working with data
- Proven ability to influence and engage cross functional teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work at pace
- Strong attention to detail, particularly around pricing and promotions
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: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, salary 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. 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. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
