# Buyer - Pre School Toys (12 month FTC)

**Company**: Argos
**Location**: Coventry, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: Competitive Plus Benefits
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As a Buyer at Argos, you will translate and execute the category strategy for your assigned ranges, owning key parts of the buying process and helping deliver profitable growth.

You will support the delivery of agreed category KPIs, including sales, margin, stock, availability, digital performance, and customer satisfaction, while ensuring the range and proposition remain competitive, commercially effective, and customer-focused.

Day-to-day, you will use market, customer, competitor, and supplier insight to shape range plans, pricing decisions, promotional activity, and supplier business plans.

You will work closely with Merchandising and cross-functional teams to phase budgets, update forecasts, and deliver trading plans.

You will also build strong relationships with suppliers and large brands, lead or support negotiations, manage supplier-funded activity, and guide Assistant Buyers and operational support teams to maintain pace, accuracy, and compliance.

The ideal candidate will have buying experience from a retail or consumer goods environment, with the commercial confidence to make decisions using trading performance, financial metrics, and customer insight.

You should be comfortable working with large, established brands and managing supplier conversations where there may be competing priorities or challenging negotiations.

You will be a collaborative and credible communicator who can influence across teams and levels, balance short-term trading needs with longer-term category plans, and take ownership in a fast-moving environment.

You will also be confident analysing complex data, identifying market opportunities, and working cross-functionally to turn insight into practical commercial actions.

**Essential criteria:**

- Buying experience with accountability for delivering a product range, category plan, or supplier plan in a retail or consumer goods environment

- Ability to analyse trading, customer, competitor, supplier, and/or market data to make commercial recommendations

- Working knowledge of commercial and financial metrics, including sales, margin, stock, availability, and profitability

- Experience managing supplier or brand relationships, including commercial negotiation or challenging performance conversations

- Experience working cross-functionally with teams such as Merchandising, Digital, Marketing, Finance, Product Development, or Sourcing to deliver plans

**Benefits:**

- Colleague discount: 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU, and Habitat after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day

- Pensions scheme and life cover

- Performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary

- Annual holiday allowance

- Additional holiday purchase

- Season ticket loans

- Cycle to work scheme

- Health cash plans

- Pay advance

- Access to discounts from hundreds of other retailers

- Employee assistance programme

- Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave

- Up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave

## Skills

### Required
- buying experience
- commercial analysis
- supplier management
- data analysis
- cross-functional collaboration

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