Merchandiser - Imaginative Play and Game at Sainsbury's · London

About the team

You’ll join the Argos Commercial & Digital function, a fast-paced and highly collaborative area focused on delivering exceptional product ranges across major branded categories. The team is navigating significant change and transformation, offering the opportunity to shape new ways of working while driving performance in a high-profile area with strong market share.

More about the role

As a Merchandiser, you’ll lead delivery of customer-focused product ranges, ensuring sales, profit and availability targets are met. You will support and coach Assistant Merchandisers, manage forecasting and intake, and collaborate closely with Buying, Supply Chain, Digital, and Accenture Managed Services to execute trading plans.

This is a highly analytical, fast-paced role where you’ll influence cross-functional partners, optimise stock positions, and ensure operational excellence across the full product lifecycle.

More about you

You’ll bring strong analytical capability, commercial awareness and the ability to work effectively under pressure. You’ll be confident influencing stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and supporting assistant merchandisers through change. Experience within electricals or big-brand product environments is essential to succeed.

Essential criteria

• Strong analytical and numerical capability

• Experience of Assistant Merchandiser level as a minimum, including hands‑on merchandising experience within electrical or major branded product categories

• Experience with merchandising planning systems and Excel

• Understanding of electricals and big-brand environments

• Ability to prioritise effectively in fast-paced trading environment

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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 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 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 additional 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, 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.

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).