Senior Buyer – Homewares (Bedding) | C5 | 9 month FTC
Location: Coventry or London (SSC & Home) | Hybrid working (TBC)
About the team
You’ll join Argos Commercial & Digital within Homewares, a fast paced, customer led team shaping compelling ranges across stores and online. In Bedding, one of our largest Home categories, we blend design led own brand product development with strong branded partnerships to deliver great value, quality and choice for customers.
More about the role
As Senior Buyer for Bedding, you’ll own the category and range strategy and lead its end to end execution to deliver profitable growth. You’ll translate customer, market and commercial insight into clear roadmaps, guide range architecture and launch plans, and partner with Product Development, Technical and Global Sourcing to balance quality, price and speed to market across both own brand and branded/filled bedding.
Day to day, you’ll steer trading performance across sales, margin, stock, availability and digital metrics, shaping pricing and promotional plans and working closely with Merchandising, Digital and Marketing to maximise performance across channels. You’ll also lead strategic supplier partnerships, building Joint Business Plans, negotiating commercial terms and securing funding for promotions and marketing activity.
More about you
You’re a commercially minded Buyer with experience delivering category strategies in a complex, omni channel non-food environment. You’re comfortable working across both store and digital formats, using data and insight to make clear decisions at pace and balancing short and long term priorities.
As a people leader, you set clear objectives, coach and develop others and create high performance through strong collaboration. You build productive supplier and stakeholder relationships, communicate with impact, and role model ethical, legally compliant ways of working.
Essential criteria
• Evidence of owning a category and range strategy in non-food retail and delivering against sales, margin, stock and availability targets (examples required).
• Experience leading range architecture and launch planning across multiple subcategories, translating customer/market insight into clear propositions.
• Demonstrated experience managing both own brand/product development ranges and branded supplier ranges, including quality/price trade offs and continuous improvement.
• Proven supplier management and commercial negotiation capability, including Joint Business Plans and securing supplier funded promotions/marketing activity.
• People leadership experience (leading, coaching and developing Buyers/Assistant Buyers), with clear examples of driving performance through objectives and accountability.
Contract note
This is a 9 month Fixed Term Contract (FTC).
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