Post Production Manager

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.

Milton Keynes location

12-month FTC

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury’s as the Post Production Manager for Argos offers a unique opportunity to lead the development of a new post-production arm dedicated to transforming high-quality content for diverse channels such as E-commerce, Marcom, PR, and Social. Collaborating closely with in-house studios and creative teams, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing and delivering assets. With a focus on automation, AI, CGI integration, and operational excellence, this role provides a platform to drive innovation, mentor teams, and shape the future of post-production workflows in a dynamic and inclusive environment.

What you’ll do

As the Post Production Manager at Argos, you will lead the new post-production arm to edit and transform high-quality content for E-commerce, Marcom, PR, and Social channels, in collaboration with in-house Studios, production, and creative teams. Your role entails ensuring content, retouching, and edit guidelines align with brand objectives, meeting KPIs, SLAs, and operational targets. With a keen eye for detail and expertise in creative retouching and edit techniques, you will drive automation initiatives, onboard new AI and CGI suppliers, lead post-production strategy, mentor team members, develop business cases for new partnerships, and implement workflows leveraging AI and CGI technologies. Your success will be measured by successful supplier integration, team adoption, metrics tracking, early wins delivery, and streamlined post-production workflows, making a significant impact on content creation and delivery processes.

Who you are

As a Post Production Manager at Argos, you are a dynamic and strategic leader with a strong background in post-production operations and asset management workflows. Your experience in creative agency or in-house studio environments, coupled with your proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, enables you to drive the implementation of new CGI and AI partnerships, streamline post-production workflows, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality content for E-commerce, Marcom, PR, and Social channels. Your ability to innovate, communicate effectively, and foster collaboration across technical and creative teams positions you to drive impactful change, optimise operational processes, and ensure the successful integration of new technologies to enhance Argos’s brand objectives and meet operational targets.

Essential criteria

Experience in post‑production operations and asset management workflows – you’ll be the go‑to expert across retouching, editing, CGI and delivery.

Demonstrable project management skills, including planning, reporting and coordinating teams to deliver at pace.

Previous experience in a creative agency or in‑house studio environment with experience of how content flows end to end.

Working knowledge of Adobe Workfront and Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems.

Experience onboarding and managing large suppliers, ideally across AI, CGI, retouching or editing.

Hands‑on experience using or implementing automated production tools or systems.

Leadership and mentoring experience, supporting Editors, Retouchers and Post‑Producers.

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).