Sainsbury's
Product Technologist
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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.
Great products don't happen by chance. They happen because talented people challenge, test, improve and refine every detail before a product reaches a customer's home.
As a Product Technologist, you'll be at the centre of that process. Responsible for your own categories within the Home Accessories and Textiles team, you'll partner with Buying, Design, Sourcing and suppliers around the world to bring products to market that are safe, compliant, high quality and built to delight our customers.
From shaping product specifications and managing testing requirements through to using customer insight to improve quality and reduce returns, you'll play a key role in delivering products that millions of customers trust every day. Working in a fast-paced retail environment, you'll help influence what we launch next while supporting our quality, customer and sustainability ambitions.
What You'll Do
- Work closely with Buying, Design, Sourcing and suppliers to develop and deliver products that meet our quality, safety and compliance standards.
- Create, manage and approve product specifications, ensuring materials, components, testing requirements and care information are accurate and completed to critical path timelines.
- Take ownership of product safety, legality and due diligence, ensuring products are fully compliant while protecting our brands and reputation.
- Use customer complaints, returns data, star ratings and product performance insight to identify opportunities for improvement, reduce returns and enhance product quality.
- Support range reviews, product evaluations and competitor benchmarking, helping shape future product development decisions.
- Investigate and resolve technical issues, working quickly to manage risks, support held stock processes and minimise customer impact.
- Support the delivery of sustainability commitments through responsible sourcing, material reporting and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Build strong relationships with suppliers and global stakeholders to drive technical excellence throughout the supply chain.
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Who You Are
- You'll already understand the pace and complexity of a retail technical environment and enjoy balancing multiple priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
- You may currently be a Technologist looking for your next challenge, or an Assistant Technologist ready to step into a broader role. Either way, you'll be comfortable working cross-functionally, building relationships and influencing decisions to achieve the best outcome for customers and the business.
- We're particularly interested in candidates with experience across Home Accessories, Textiles, Softlines or similar product categories, whether gained within a retailer, supplier or manufacturing environment.
- You'll bring a practical, solutions-focused mindset, strong commercial awareness and a genuine passion for delivering safe, high-quality products.
Essential Criteria
- Experience in a technical role within a retailer, supplier or manufacturing environment
- Strong understanding of product safety, quality and legal compliance
- Experience managing product specifications, testing and approval processes
- Commercial awareness and understanding of the product development lifecycle
- Excellent organisation, planning and prioritisation skills
- Strong attention to detail and due diligence management
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Confident using systems, reporting tools and technical documentation
- Willingness to travel within the UK and occasionally overseas
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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).
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