Buyer - Apple (12M FTC)

About the team

Join the Argos Commercial & Digital team in a genuinely unique buying role. Rather than managing a broad supplier base, you will work solely with Apple, giving you the opportunity to build an in-depth strategic partnership and develop a detailed understanding of their proposition, products and commercial opportunities. You will still have broad internal exposure, collaborating with Merchandising, Product Development, Technical, Global Sourcing, Digital, Marketing and Finance, while supporting Assistant Buyers and helping shape a compelling customer offer.

More about the role

As a Buyer, you will translate the category strategy into clear range, pricing, sourcing and trading plans for your assigned products. A key point of difference is the role's dedicated relationship with Apple. You will become the central buying contact for that partnership, using customer, market and commercial insight to influence plans, identify opportunities and deliver agreed measures across sales, margin, stock, availability, digital performance and customer satisfaction.

Day to day, you will build range plans and forecasts, shape pricing and promotional activity, track trading performance and maintain a strong, focused supplier relationship. Alongside the core buying responsibilities, you will be involved in a range of projects that support the development of the category and customer proposition. You will partner with Merchandising and other specialist teams to turn project outcomes into practical commercial actions, while guiding Assistant Buyers and stepping up to support the wider category when needed.

More about you

You will bring practical buying experience and a strong understanding of how range, pricing, supplier and trading decisions affect commercial performance. You will be comfortable developing a close, constructive and appropriately challenging relationship with a single supplier, while maintaining clear commercial objectives and customer focus. You can work confidently with financial and performance data, balance core trading activity with project delivery, and turn customer, market and competitor insight into clear actions and recommendations.

You will communicate clearly with suppliers and colleagues, build productive cross-functional relationships and take ownership of delivery. You can manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment, maintain accurate commercial records and positively challenge decisions when the evidence supports a different approach. An understanding of relevant legal, competition, anti-bribery, corruption and intellectual property requirements would be beneficial.

Essential criteria

• Buying experience with accountability for product ranges, pricing decisions or supplier negotiations.
• Evidence of using sales, margin, stock, availability or digital performance data to make commercial decisions.
• Experience creating or delivering range, category, trading or promotional plans against defined targets.
• Experience building supplier and cross-functional stakeholder relationships to deliver agreed commercial outcomes.
• Ability to interpret customer, market and competitor insight and convert it into clear range, pricing or trading actions.

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Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

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).