New Business Merchandiser

Description

At Argos, we’re constantly evolving how we bring new products and ideas to life for our customers. The New Business team plays a key role in that, exploring new categories, unlocking growth opportunities and building ranges that keep us relevant, competitive and exciting.


This New Business Merchandiser role sits right at the centre of that. You’ll take ownership of how new ranges are planned, traded and delivered, working closely with Buying and a wide range of stakeholders to turn new opportunities into commercially successful categories. Your work will directly shape how quickly we can move, how well we trade, and how effectively we grow new areas of the business.


You’ll combine strong commercial thinking with a hands-on, detail-focused approach. This is a role where you’ll stay close to the numbers while also influencing decisions, solving problems and driving performance at pace.


We’re looking for someone with real passion and drive to make a big difference. You must understand merchandising in practice, who’s confident working with data and making decisions, and who enjoys being part of building something new.


What You’ll Do

You’ll own the planning and trading of new business categories, delivering customer-focused ranges that meet sales, profit and availability targets. From forecasting through to stock management, you’ll ensure plans are robust, agile and set up for success. You’ll work closely with the New Business Buyer to shape and deliver category strategies and joint business plans with suppliers, helping bring new ideas and opportunities into the business.


Day to day, you’ll manage trading performance, reviewing results, spotting risks and opportunities and adapting plans to keep performance on track. You’ll play a key role in promotional planning, pricing and inventory decisions, working cross-functionally to deliver strong commercial outcomes.


You’ll take ownership of the product lifecycle, managing ranges from launch through to exit, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently. Alongside this, you’ll support and coach an Assistant Merchandiser, helping build capability and confidence within the team.


Who You Are


You’re a confident merchandiser who understands how to manage plans, interpret data and drive performance in a fast-moving environment. You’re comfortable owning numbers but equally enjoy collaborating with others to influence outcomes and make things happen.


You’re organised and detail-focused, able to prioritise effectively and keep things moving even when managing multiple deadlines. You bring a proactive mindset, always looking for ways to improve how things are done and where performance can be optimised. You’re a strong communicator who builds relationships easily, whether that’s with Buying teams, suppliers or wider stakeholders. You’re confident having conversations that challenge thinking and drive better results.

Essential Criteria


•    Experience managing sales, stock or margin plans within a merchandising or planning environment

•    Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and translate insight into action

•    Experience using merchandising or planning systems, with advanced Excel skills

•    Proven ability to manage and review performance against KPIs such as sales, stock and availability

•    Experience working cross-functionally to deliver trading, promotional or range plans


 

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications
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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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).