Assistant Designer

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.

Our General Merchandise Design team plays a key role in shaping original, commercial and customer-focused ranges for Argos and Habitat. Working closely with Designers, Senior Designers, Buyers, Technologists, suppliers and product development teams, the team brings together trend insight, creativity and commercial thinking to create products that support our category vision and deliver newness for our customers.

As an Assistant Designer, you’ll support the delivery of inspirational designs across seasonal ranges, helping the team bring product ideas to life from research & concept through to supplier briefing and key range meetings. You’ll assist Designers and Senior Designers with concept, colour and trend boards, project briefs, design specifications, artwork files and presentation materials, while keeping design administration organised and on track.

Day to day, you’ll manage bought samples and material swatches, maintain design and artwork files, update colour/theme/trend and bay boards, and support preparation for selection, sign-off, review and trading meetings. You’ll also liaise with Designers, Buyers, suppliers, external designers and Product Development teams where required, as well as carrying out competitor and trend research through store visits, trade fairs, press shows and online inspiration.

You’ll bring a creative eye, strong organisation and a practical approach to supporting a busy design team. You’ll be confident using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to help create briefs, artwork, palettes or presentation materials, and you’ll be comfortable keeping files, boards, samples and design specifications accurate and up to date.

You’ll be a clear communicator who enjoys working collaboratively with a broad range of stakeholders, while also being able to manage your own tasks and deadlines. A relevant creative industries degree or equivalent design experience is important, and you’ll be able to share a portfolio that demonstrates your design capability. Experience in a design studio and/or 3D software would be beneficial, but not essential.

• Able to provide a portfolio showing relevant design work, including examples of colour, trend, artwork, concept or product design development
• Able to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create or support product briefs, artwork, palettes, boards or design specifications
• Able to use Microsoft Outlook and Word to manage communication, documents and design administration accurately
• Able to work collaboratively with Designers, Buyers, suppliers or cross-functional teams, with clear written and verbal communication
• Able to organise workload and deliver design support activities, such as sample management, board updates, design files or supplier specs, in line with agreed deadlines or critical path milestones

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whichever 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…