Designer - Furniture
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 05 August 2026
Requisition ID: 400072311
About the team
Our GM Design team creates customer-led product ranges across some of the UK’s most recognised home and general merchandise brands, including Habitat and Argos. Working closely with Buying, Product Technology, suppliers and external design partners, the team turns customer insight, market trends and commercial opportunities into products that are fresh, functional and relevant for our customers. This is a collaborative, fast-moving environment where creativity, pace and commercial thinking come together to shape ranges customers love.
More about the role
As Designer, you’ll help create and develop inspirational furniture ranges that support the category vision and brand ambition. You’ll take ownership of furniture design activity across your category area, translating customer needs, trend insight and market data into commercial product concepts, design specifications, colour palettes, trend boards and presentation materials.
You’ll manage the product development journey from concept through to launch, working with Buyers, Product Technologists, suppliers, sourcing team and internal/external design teams to keep activity on track against the critical path. Day to day, you could be producing design packs, reviewing samples, preparing for selection and sign-off meetings, completing competitor research, maintaining design/artwork files and ensuring PR and Marketing have the assets they need to tell the story behind each range. Where relevant, you’ll also coach and support an Assistant Designer, helping to grow capability within the team.
More about you
You’ll bring furniture product design and development experience, with a strong understanding of how to turn trends, customer insight and commercial opportunities into products that are deliverable, functional and brand relevant. You’ll be confident working with suppliers and cross-functional teams, and you’ll understand the importance of quality, safety, legal requirements and clear product differentiation in a retail environment.
You’ll be organised, collaborative and comfortable working to deadlines in a fast-moving environment. You’ll be able to present your ideas clearly, build trusted relationships with stakeholders and use tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator to create high-quality design outputs. A strong portfolio of relevant design work will help demonstrate your approach, creativity and ability to deliver commercial ranges for customers.
Essential criteria
- Evidence of delivering furniture product design and development work from concept through to launch, shown through a relevant portfolio or examples of completed projects.
- Working knowledge of furniture manufacturing processes, supplier engagement and translating design concepts into clear specifications or design packs.
- Ability to use customer insight, market data, competitor research and trend information to inform commercial product design decisions.
- Competent use of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create design, artwork, trend, colour or presentation outputs.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, such as buying, product technology, technical/legal, suppliers or external design teams, to deliver activity against deadlines.
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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 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 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).
