Transformation Development Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 01 May 2026
Requisition ID: 400057258
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
The Argos Strategy & Transformation division is at the forefront of driving innovative change and business growth across our organisation. Our team collaborates closely with colleagues from diverse functions, championing commercial success and customer-centric solutions. We pride ourselves on our dynamic approach, working together to deliver ambitious programmes that shape the future of Argos. Joining us means playing a pivotal role in an energetic, forward-thinking environment where your contributions will have a significant impact.
More about the role
As Transformation Development Manager, you will be responsible for turning high-level strategy into tangible change through expertly crafted programmes. Working at the heart of transformation, you’ll bring together cross-functional teams to take promising ideas from initial concept right through to pilot and early implementation stages. Your role will involve solving complex business problems using structured, outcome-led and hypothesis-driven methodologies, ensuring every initiative is both commercially viable and focused on the needs of customers and colleagues.
Day-to-day, you’ll set up and run transformation programmes with clarity and pace, ensuring robust end-to-end thinking. You’ll be involved in shaping and driving key projects that contribute to the growth and transformation of Argos, creating practical, ambitious plans that move the business forward. Reporting to senior leaders within Transformation, you’ll work from our Store Support Centre and occasionally from home, enjoying a flexible and collaborative working environment.
More about you
To excel in this role, you will need demonstratable expertise in driving strategic transformation using outcome-focused and hypothesis-led approaches. Your ability to create clarity, maintain momentum, and foster effective collaboration across teams will be essential. You will be adept at strategic thinking, with a proven track record of managing complex programmes from inception to implementation.
We’re seeking someone who takes ownership and demonstrates thought leadership, consistently seeking out opportunities for improvement and innovation. You’ll be resilient and adaptable, thriving in a fast-paced setting with a natural ability to communicate and engage stakeholders at all levels. A commitment to commercial success and customer-centricity should underpin everything you do.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience leading cross functional change or transformation programmes from concept through to trial and early implementation, including managing risks, dependencies‑ and business impacts.
- Proven ability to apply an outcome focused and ‑hypothesis led approach to define business problems, generate options, and create practical, ‑commercially grounded‑ recommendations.
- Evidence of successful programme management and delivery, including establishing clear milestones, maintaining pace, coordinating multiple workstreams, and presenting progress through structured updates or governance forums.
- Demonstrable ability to distil complex information into clear, concise and actionable communications, including the creation of business cases, programme narratives or stakeholder updates.
- Proven capability to build and manage effective cross business working relationships, collaborating with subject matter experts and central functions to enable delivery and support ‑decision making‑.
- Experience of working with stakeholders from across all levels of an organisation right the way through to presenting and driving change at bord level
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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).
