Senior Buyer

Senior Buyer (C5)

About the team

You’ll be joining the Argos Commercial & Digital function, a fast‑paced, customer‑led team responsible for shaping compelling product propositions across our non‑food categories. The Buying team plays a pivotal role in delivering profitable growth by combining deep customer insight, strong supplier partnerships and close collaboration with Product Development, Merchandising, Digital and Marketing. This is a highly visible area of the business, where commercial thinking, pace and collaboration come together to deliver for millions of customers across stores and online.

More about the role 

As a Senior Buyer, you will own the end‑to‑end category strategy for a large, complex product area, translating customer, market and commercial insight into clear range, pricing and trading plans. You will be accountable for delivering sales, margin, stock and availability targets, while ensuring a customer‑led proposition across all channels.

Day to day, you’ll lead category and range planning, oversee new product launches, and work closely with strategic suppliers through Joint Business Plans. You’ll partner with Product Development, Global Sourcing and Technical teams to optimise quality, cost and speed to market, while collaborating with Marketing and Digital to deliver impactful promotional and online propositions. As a people leader, you’ll coach and develop Buyers and Assistant Buyers, setting clear objectives and creating a high‑performance culture aligned to our valued behaviours.

More about you 

You are commercially driven and comfortable operating in a complex, omni‑channel retail environment. You bring a customer‑first mindset and use data, insight and market trends to shape decisions and priorities. You’re confident leading cross‑functional conversations, influencing stakeholders at all levels and building effective, long‑term supplier relationships.

As a people manager, you lead with clarity and pace, creating an environment where teams are supported, challenged and developed. You role model inclusive leadership, take ownership for outcomes and balance short‑term trading decisions with longer‑term category strategy.

Essential criteria

• Proven experience owning and delivering a commercial category or range strategy within a non‑food, omni‑channel retail environment

• Demonstratable accountability for delivering against sales, margin and stock or availability targets

• Proven experience leading and developing a team, with clear evidence of performance management and capability building

• Demonstratable experience of leading supplier relationships, including commercial negotiations and Joint Business Planning

• Proven ability to use data and customer insight to inform trading, range and pricing decisions

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