Merchandiser - Homewares; FTC

Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD

Contract type:
Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area:
Argos
Closing date: 12 June 2026

Requisition :

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.

As a Merchandiser, you’ll be responsible for delivering a customer-focused range that achieves sales, profit, margin, stock and availability targets. You’ll develop and reforecast budgets across key KPIs, manage intake and lifecycle activity, and use data-led insight to steer weekly trading decisions.

Working in partnership with Buying and cross-functional teams (including Supply Chain, Digital, Trade Planning, Allocation & Replenishment and Demand Forecasting), you’ll execute trading plans covering pricing, promotions, markdowns and clearance. You’ll also build effective ways of working with the Accenture Managed Services team to ensure forecasts, processes and data integrity are delivered accurately and on time.

You bring demonstrable retail merchandising experience managing a live range or product category, with a track record of forecasting, reforecasting and intake management to deliver against commercial targets. You’re confident using merchandising/planning systems and Excel to analyse performance, spot risks and turn insight into action.

You’re effective at building relationships and influencing stakeholders across teams, raising issues early and driving resolution. You take ownership for delivery, keep processes compliant and data accurate, and can prioritise competing deadlines in a fast-paced trading environment. Where required, you’ll coach and support Assistant Merchandisers to help them deliver to plan and develop their capability.

Demonstrable merchandising experience, either operating at Merchandiser level or as a high-performing Assistant Merchandiser ready to step up, with ownership or exposure to sales, stock, margin and availability, including forecasting and reforecasting against budget

• Experience using merchandising or planning systems and advanced Excel to analyse performance, manage phasing and intake plans, and maintain data integrity
• Evidence of building and delivering trading plans (including pricing, promotions, markdowns and clearance) in partnership with Buying and cross‑functional stakeholders
• Ability to manage intake and product lifecycle activity (launch, cancellations, rephasing and clearance) to achieve availability and stock targets
• Experience working with central support or managed service teams, ensuring process compliance and timely escalation of issues

Coventry SSC and Home (hybrid)

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…