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Assistant Buyer – Jewellery & Watches
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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 Jewellery & Watches Buying team sits within Argos Commercial, shaping an exciting and varied customer offer across own-brand jewellery and some of the best-known watch brands. It is a small team with a big category, so you will be close to the decisions, trusted with meaningful responsibility and able to see the impact of your work. From kids’ jewellery and fashion-led newness to branded watches, there is plenty of variety and opportunity to build broad buying experience.
More About The Role
As Assistant Buyer, you will support the Buyer in delivering category sales, margin and supplier-income targets. You will help develop range and promotional plans, review trading and competitor performance, maintain accurate product and pricing information, and turn customer and commercial insight into clear recommendations. As you build your category knowledge, you will take ownership of selected ranges or subcategories and support important promotional activity.
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Day to day, you will work closely with suppliers and colleagues across Merchandising, Digital, Marketing, Product Development and Global Sourcing. You will manage activity against the critical path, support samples and approvals, contribute to digital and in-store execution, and help ensure ranges launch accurately and on time. With both branded and own-brand products, this is a strong opportunity to develop experience across supplier management, commercial trading and product development.
More About You
You will have experience working in a Buying role, where you have supported or owned elements of range planning, product selection, pricing, promotions and supplier relationships. You will be commercially minded and comfortable using sales, margin, profit and customer insight data to inform buying decisions. You will also be confident managing detail, priorities and deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
You do not need previous jewellery or watches experience. What matters is your ability to learn a category quickly, build productive supplier and stakeholder relationships, and take ownership of your work. You will combine commercial curiosity with strong organisation, accurate administration and a clear focus on delivering the right outcomes for customers.
Essential Criteria
- Experience working within buying, with evidence of supporting range, product, pricing or promotional decisions.
- Ability to interpret sales, margin, profit and supplier-income data and use the findings to recommend commercial actions.
- Experience managing product, pricing, promotional or supplier information accurately through business systems and Excel.
- Experience building working relationships with suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver agreed actions and deadlines.
- Ability to manage multiple activities against a critical path in a fast-paced environment, identifying risks and escalating issues appropriately.
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Benefits
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.
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