Retail Governance Executive
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 19 April 2026
Requisition ID: 400056509
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.
About the team
Join our Argos Operations team at the heart of Retail Operations, where we deliver operational excellence across all our stores and support centre locations. Our division is dedicated to ensuring retail activities are seamless, well-coordinated, and consistently delivered in every store. We foster a collaborative environment that values clear communication, innovation, and a passion for making things better for our colleagues and customers alike. If you thrive in a dynamic setting and enjoy being at the centre of retail transformation, we’d love to hear from you.
More about the role
As the Retail Governance Executive, you will play a pivotal role in identifying, coordinating, assessing, and communicating all retail-impacting activities. Acting as the central point for gathering information and ensuring readiness, you’ll enable our retail teams to consistently deliver key initiatives and projects across all Argos stores. Your day-to-day will involve working closely with multiple stakeholders, challenging clarity where needed, and driving operational effectiveness.
You will also take ownership of the Retail Governance forums, overseeing diary management, agendas, papers, minutes, and tracking actions to maintain a smooth governance rhythm. This is a fantastic opportunity to directly influence retail success by ensuring all activities are well executed and our teams are fully prepared for what’s ahead.
More about you
To excel in this role, you’ll need operational knowledge of retail stores and a demonstrable ability to organise and validate information effectively. You’ll be proactive, detail-oriented, and confident in taking ownership of your work. Your approach will be thorough, ensuring clarity in communication and readiness across all projects and activities.
You’ll also be someone who values teamwork, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Demonstrating initiative and accountability, you’ll embody our commitment to operational excellence and support the wider team in achieving shared goals.
Essential criteria
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Demonstrable ability to coordinate end-to-end governance processes, including organising calendars, agendas, pre reads and tracking actions, evidenced by having previously managed structured forums or business governance cycles.
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Proven capability in capturing, validating and consolidating operational information to produce clear summaries of activities, risks, pinch points and capacity impacts for retail or operational environments.
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Demonstrable skill in engaging cross-functional stakeholders to obtain clarity, using structured questioning to understand scope, assumptions and implications, with evidence of preventing or resolving overlaps or conflicts in workstreams.
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Proven ability to maintain accurate, auditable documentation, including logs, trackers, minutes and decision records, ensuring transparency and traceability in operational processes.
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Desirable - demonstrate operational knowledge of retail store environments, supported by experience applying this knowledge to improve processes, simplify activities or enhance readiness of retail teams.
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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 5% 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).Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
