Product Lifecycle Analyst (12 month FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 30 August 2026
Requisition ID: 400077141
The best retail experiences start long before a customer clicks 'buy'. They start with having the right products available, in the right place, at the right time.
We're looking for a Product Lifecycle Analyst to join our Central Merchandising team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. Sitting at the centre of the business, you'll help shape how stock is managed across Argos, using insight and analysis to improve availability, optimise stock levels and support better decision-making.
Working closely with Trading, Digital, Supply Chain and Trade Planning teams, you'll play a key role in improving stock health, reducing working capital and ensuring products move through their lifecycle as efficiently as possible.
What you'll do
You'll support the Product Lifecycle Manager in identifying opportunities to improve stock health, optimise inventory and drive the profitable exit of stock across our online and store channels.
Using data and insight, you'll help trading teams make better decisions, support the optimisation of our Clearance proposition, and work with stakeholders across the business to improve stock flow, event readiness and lifecycle management.
You'll also contribute to projects and initiatives that simplify ways of working and deliver better stock outcomes.
Who you are
You're commercially minded, analytical and curious, with a passion for using data to solve problems and uncover opportunities. You enjoy turning insight into action and can confidently work with stakeholders across different teams to influence decisions and drive positive change.
Organised and proactive, you're someone who spots opportunities, takes ownership and enjoys making a tangible impact on business performance.
Essential Criteria
- Experience in Merchandise Planning, Assortment Planning or Stock Management within a multichannel retail environment
- Strong commercial acumen and decision-making ability
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret data from multiple sources and translate this into actionable insight
- Confidence influencing stakeholders and supporting decision-making
- Experience working collaboratively across multiple functions and teams
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to communicate complex information clearly and simply
- A proactive mindset with a desire to make an impact and drive positive change
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Strong Excel skills
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure across a broad range of teams while playing a key role in helping Argos make smarter decisions about stock. If you enjoy turning data into action, influencing outcomes and making a real commercial impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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).
