Description About the team You’ll join the Argos Commercial & Digital Buying team, a key function responsible for shaping customer‑focused, commercially strong ranges across a complex, omnichannel retail environment. The team works at pace, partnering closely with Merchandising, Global Sourcing, Product Development, Digital and Marketing to deliver propositions that meet customer needs while driving sustainable sales and margin growth. This is a highly collaborative environment where strong commercial judgement, curiosity and adaptability are essential. The team balances short‑term trading priorities with longer‑term category strategy, offering exposure to a broad range of stakeholders and decision‑making at scale. More about the role As a Buyer, you’ll have end‑to‑end ownership of the buying process for your assigned ranges, translating category strategy into clear commercial decisions. You’ll be accountable for performance against core KPIs, including sales, margin, stock, availability and digital metrics, ensuring your ranges are competitive, customer‑relevant and commercially robust. You’ll lead range selection, pricing architecture and supplier negotiations, using market, customer and cost insight to inform decisions. A key part of the role involves monitoring trading performance and competitor activity, identifying risks and opportunities and adapting plans to maximise commercial outcomes. Working in close partnership with Merchandising, you’ll align forecasts, budgets and trading plans, while collaborating with Global Sourcing and Product Development to shape sourcing strategies and product pipelines. You’ll also support and guide Assistant Buyers, helping to prioritise workload and ensure clear, compliant and efficient ways of working across the team. More about you You’ll bring commercial buying experience within a retail environment and be confident making data‑led decisions across a live category or range. Comfortable working in a fast‑paced setting, you’ll be able to manage competing priorities while maintaining a clear focus on delivery against agreed targets. You’ll have experience building effective supplier relationships and influencing outcomes through commercial negotiations. Strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills are essential, with the ability to work collaboratively across functions and clearly articulate recommendations, risks and trade‑offs. You’ll be pragmatic, resilient and commercially curious, with a desire to continuously improve performance and contribute positively to a supportive, high‑performing team culture. Essential criteria Experience executing buying decisions within a commercial retail environment, delivering against sales, margin and availability targets. Ability to analyse trading, market and customer data to inform range, pricing and promotional decisions. Experience managing supplier relationships and leading commercial negotiations. Ability to balance commercial, customer and operational considerations when making recommendations. Experience working cross‑functionally with teams such as Merchandising, Sourcing and Digital to deliver shared objectives. ACDBuying LI-MB1 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).