Value Strategy Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Non Food
Closing date: 21 January 2026
Requisition ID: 400040577
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. From fragrance to car care, clothing and pots and pans, our General Merchandise team delivers all the non-food items for Sainsbury’s, Habitat and Argos customers. This multi-brand environment means you get to work across most areas. You can also be a pioneer, because the team believes in being brave, iterating and learning as they go. They also develop deep connections to other departments, which opens up a lot of different career opportunities for you. What’s certain is that you’ll spend time on the shop floor to get closer to customers, and bring a broad perspective and the full support of your manager with you wherever you decide to develop next.
About the team
Join Argos’ Services & Propositions team – a centre of talent shaping customer and commercial outcomes across the business. We partner with Commercial, Finance and dedicated Data & Analytics pricing teams to deliver ‘Trusted Value’ as part of ‘More Argos, More Often’. You’ll work alongside experienced proposition managers with strong support, coaching and access to senior leaders.
More about the role
As Value Strategy Manager, you will own the total Argos pricing and promotional strategy. You’ll translate complex market, competitor, customer and price-matching datasets into clear guardrails and category-level targets that protect price perception and deliver profit.
Day to day, you’ll work hand-in-hand with Data & Analytics and Finance, frame the right questions in ambiguous spaces, and communicate simple, actionable frameworks to senior stakeholders. You’ll also liaise with Legal to evolve pricing house rules and ensure strategies remain market-appropriate.
More about you
You’re confident with data and comfortable switching between detail and the bigger picture. You bring strong strategic thinking and commercial acumen, a natural, credible style with stakeholders, and the resilience to land change at pace. You’re collaborative, curious about ecommerce and customer behaviour, and you enjoy simplifying complexity into actions others can rally behind.
Essential criteria
- Ability to consolidate large, varied datasets into clear pricing/promo guardrails and KPIs (e.g., price position, promo ROI)
- Proven experience shaping or implementing pricing/promotional strategy within a commercial retail or ecommerce context
- Structured, hypothesis-led problem solving; able to articulate assumptions, tests and outcomes
- Influences senior stakeholders and drives adoption across cross-functional teams
- Plans and tracks delivery with defined metrics and cadences; comfortable with tools such as Excel/SQL/SAP (level TBC)
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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).
