New Business Buyer
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 01 June 2026
Requisition ID: 400061412
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
Our Argos Commercial & Digital team plays a key role in delivering innovative, customer-focused propositions within the Services & Propositions division. The New Business team is responsible for identifying, launching and scaling new category opportunities, driving profitable growth through a mix of insight, strong supplier partnerships and compelling customer ranges. Working closely with cross-functional teams including Digital, Marketing, Merchandising and Operations, you’ll help shape new propositions that support our Next Level Sainsbury’s strategy.
More about the role
As a New Business Buyer, you will be responsible for translating and delivering the SDF New Business category strategy to achieve agreed KPIs including sales, margin, stock, availability, digital performance and customer satisfaction. You will own specific new business ranges, developing six-month range strategies, managing end-to-end buying activity and ensuring a clear, customer-led range architecture. This includes forecasting, range selection, pricing strategy and supplier income management.
You will build and manage strong supplier relationships, negotiating commercial terms and funding agreements to maximise category performance. You will collaborate closely with Merchandising, Digital and Marketing teams to deliver trading and promotional plans, using market, customer and competitor insight to optimise performance. Alongside this, you will support the New Business Manager in shaping category direction, provide guidance to junior team members and ensure all activity is delivered in line with legal and compliance requirements.
More about you
You bring strong commercial awareness and experience within a buying or trading environment, ideally within a multi-channel or digital retail setting. You understand how to translate strategy into commercial outcomes and are confident managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You are numerically confident and able to interpret multiple data sources to inform decisions and identify opportunities to improve performance.
You are a confident communicator who can build effective relationships with stakeholders and suppliers at all levels, influencing decisions and driving alignment to deliver results. You demonstrate accountability, resilience and the ability to work at pace, while maintaining attention to detail and ensuring compliance with relevant governance, including competition law and ethical standards.
Essential criteria
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Experience managing product ranges or categories, including range planning, pricing and supplier management
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Track record of delivering against commercial KPIs such as sales, margin, stock or availability
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Ability to analyse and interpret data from multiple sources to inform trading decisions and forecasts
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Experience negotiating commercial terms or supplier funding agreements aligned to business objectives
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Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver trading, promotional or category plans
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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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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).
