Project Manager to Director of Stores - Argos
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, Coventry, CV1 1FL
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Retail
Closing date: 20 October 2025
Requisition ID: 400025085
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. As the link between sellers and buyers, retail and head office, our retail operations team is the cog that keeps things running. With teams focused on store facing, labour, transformation, online, delivery and contact centre work, we touch almost every part of the business. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment where you need to pivot not just daily, but often hourly. So while we plan all we can, it’s vital that we all think outside our job descriptions and look to optimise and improve how we do everything. There’s also a real team ethos. After all, it’s people like you who are going to truly transform this part of the business.
This position involves fieldwork and follows a hybrid model, with flexibility regarding location.
Why join us:
Joining us as the Project Manager to Director of Stores – Argos, means you’ll be part of a dynamic team that values collaboration, strategic thinking and continuous improvement. You’ll have the opportunity to drive performance and transformation across the Argos Transformation and Operation division, working closely with stakeholders at all levels to drive projects that align with business goals.
We’re in a state of continuous improvement in Argos and you will have the opportunity to be at the centre of this.
More about the role:
In this role, you will take a central position in leading and delivering projects within Argos Retail, each of which plays a significant part in supporting our overarching strategy. Collaboration is at the heart of what you do, as you will work closely with various teams across the business, including Sainsbury’s Retail teams, Internal Communications, Transformation and Operations, Property, Labour, and Finance. Your responsibilities will include establishing comprehensive project plans and actively managing both risks and opportunities as they arise. You will monitor progress throughout each project, capturing valuable lessons to inform and enhance future project delivery.
Seeing projects through to completion, you will ensure that all key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and that critical deliverables are achieved both on schedule and within budget. You will be responsible for overseeing the communication of key messages, making certain these are delivered effectively through the most appropriate channels. Supporting the Director of Stores – Argos, you will prepare essential reports, presentations, and documents, and will ensure that the Director has all necessary pre-reads and information in advance of meetings. Additionally, you will assist with diary management, scheduling appointments, meetings, and travel arrangements to optimise the effective use of time. By leveraging key Retail metrics, you will drive innovation within the team, thereby enabling the Director of Stores to concentrate on strategic decision making.
More about you:
You possess the confidence and ability to communicate effectively at all levels, enabling you to coordinate and engage with a wide range of stakeholders. Your strong relationship-building skills allow you to establish and maintain productive working relationships with key individuals across the business, ensuring alignment and collaboration on shared objectives.
With a high level of integrity, you are adept at managing confidential information, always maintaining discretion. Your organisational and planning abilities are well developed, allowing you to prioritise tasks effectively and manage competing demands. You remain composed under pressure, successfully navigating tight deadlines and adapting to changing priorities as required.
You bring valuable experience in analysing data and reporting, demonstrating the capability to interpret both operational and financial metrics. This enables you to provide insightful analysis and suggest practical outputs that support business objectives. Furthermore, you are comfortable working independently and proactively, efficiently managing your workload to meet agreed timescales without the need for close supervision.
Essential criteria
- Experience in project management and administrative support.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office 365 skills to include Outlook, Word, OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint
- Experience using data analytics platforms
- Knowledge of Retail
Desirable:
- Understanding of how to use CoPilot is also desirable.
- Experience using PowerBI and MicroStrategy are beneficial
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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 20% 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, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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).
