Head of Merchandising
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Non Food
Closing date: 20 November 2025
Requisition ID: 400034261
About the team
Join our Argos Commercial & Digital division, where we shape the future of retail through data-driven decisions and customer-focused strategies. Our merchandising team plays a critical role in delivering market-leading ranges, ensuring customers have access to the products they love and delivering our commercial goals.
More about the role
As Head of Merchandising, you will lead the development and execution of merchandising strategies across multiple categories. You will work closely with Heads of Buying and Design to deliver sales, profit, stock availability, and customer satisfaction targets. This role involves managing a high-performing team, overseeing stock flow through the supply chain, and driving supplier performance to optimise profitability.
You will also play a key role in strategic planning, budgeting, trading and forecasting, ensuring that category plans align with long-term commercial objectives. Collaboration across functions and influencing stakeholders will be essential to deliver corporate goals.
More about you
You are an experienced merchandising leader with a proven ability to inspire and develop teams. You can demonstrate strategic thinking and execution, strong stakeholder management, and a deep understanding of sourcing and supply chain operations. You thrive in a fast-paced, complex environment and are confident in driving change and delivering results.
Essential criteria
· Proven track record in a senior merchandising leadership role
· Ability to lead and motivate large teams to deliver commercial targets
· Strong knowledge of planning, budgeting, trading and forecasting processes
· Experience managing supplier relationships and optimising performance
· Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across all levels
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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 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 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares).
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. You'll also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000 business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
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).
