Supplier and Stock Compliance Specialist

About the team

The Supplier & Stock Compliance team is responsible for ensuring effective supplier compliance and stock controls across the Argos operation. Working cross-functionally with a wide range of stakeholders, the team focuses on reducing risk, improving operational performance and supporting great customer outcomes through strong governance, data-led decision making and continuous improvement.

More about the role

As a Supplier & Stock Compliance Specialist, you'll play a key role in protecting stock integrity and ensuring supplier compliance across the Argos supply chain. Working closely with suppliers, Commercial teams, Logistics & Fulfilment Centres and operational stakeholders, you'll help identify risks, resolve issues and support the controls that underpin a successful operation.

Day to day, you'll own the stock blackline process, investigating and resolving stock discrepancies while ensuring supplier compliance standards are maintained. You'll analyse compliance and stock data, identify trends and opportunities, and provide meaningful insight that supports better decision-making and operational performance.

You'll also coordinate supplier compliance development activity, support audits and compliance reviews, and help drive continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen controls, reduce risk and improve supplier performance. Along the way, you'll build strong relationships across the business and with external suppliers, helping ensure stock is managed effectively and in line with agreed standards.

This is a permanent (full time) role working in a hybrid model from London or Ansty.

More about youWe're looking for someone who enjoys getting into the detail, diplomatically solving problems and using data to drive action. You'll be naturally curious, analytical and able to turn complex information into clear insight and recommendations.

You'll be comfortable working across multiple priorities and building strong relationships with a broad range of stakeholders. Whether you're investigating stock issues, analysing performance trends or supporting compliance improvements, you'll bring a proactive, engaging and organised approach to your work.

Most importantly, you'll be passionate about improving processes, reducing operational pain points and finding opportunities to make things simpler for colleagues, better for customers and more effective for the business.

Essential criteria

Experience working within an operational, supply chain, stock management, compliance or loss prevention environment.

Strong analytical and reporting skills, with the ability to interpret data and translate findings into actionable insight.

Experience identifying trends, risks and opportunities through the analysis of operational or compliance data.

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to adapt your style to different audiences.

Excellent planning, organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously.

High levels of attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem solving.

A passion for continuous improvement and delivering better outcomes for colleagues and customers.

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 save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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…