Argos Store Manager

Sainsbury's Limited; Chadderton; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discount card: 10% discount on most SK

Pension – 4% matched

Free food and hot drinks

Generous holiday entitlement

Sainsbury’s share scheme

Wellbeing support

Cycle to Work scheme

Special offers on gym memberships

Job summary

Sainsbury's Limited is seeking an experienced store leader for an Argos Retail operation in Oldham. You will create and lead a high-performing team, drive customer-focused performance, and be accountable for store results.

You’ll nurture talent, manage resources, and execute plans to deliver excellent customer experiences in a fast-paced environment. As a natural leader, you’ll coach your team, ensure training, and adapt to change while maintaining strong commercial acumen and focus on

Qualifications

• Must have leadership experience managing a large team in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience delivering strong customer service and improving customer experiences.
• Ability to plan, organise and resource a big, fast-moving store.

Responsibilities

• Create and lead a high-performing team and model customer-focused leadership.
• Be accountable for store performance, plans and actions, celebrating success and ensuring teams are trained and developed to be the best.
• Lead through change and motivate the team to stay focused on delivering results.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Coaching

Customer focus

Job description

Salary: £40,000
Location: Oldham Elk Mill Argos, Oldham, OL2 5HX
Hours: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos Retail
Closing date: 9 October 2026

Essential: Previous leadership experience managing a large team within a fast paced environment

Just think what you could achieve with the support of your own management team. Experiences that customers love in an ever-changing retail environment. You’ll have a team to nurture and develop and even more management opportunities on the horizon. Discover the rest of your career at Argos.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll create and lead a high-performing team and act as a true role model by seeing everything from the customer’s point of view. In that way, you’ll inspire, motivate and empower everybody around you.

Your focus on the business itself will be just as strong. Supported by your management team, you’ll have total accountability for the store – driving performance, plans and actions; celebrating success and making sure that your teams are trained and developed to be the best that they can be.

Who you are

A natural leader who is passionate about coaching others to be their best, you support as strongly as you challenge and are as flexible as you expect your team to be. You can see the link between actions and the customer, and work to resolve issues quickly.

Your planning and organising skills will be key – each Argos store is a big, fast-moving business in its own right, and you’ll look ahead to make sure you have the all the resources you need. Every day, you’ll use your commercial acumen and creative approach to change.

• You’ve managed a fast-paced operation, delivering results across service, sales, customer outcomes and team performance.
• Relentless in your pursuit of better customer experiences, you’ll evidence how you’ve changed things for the better for customers in a previous role.
• You use insight to make smart decisions that improve performance and customer experiences.
• You’re confident navigating employee relations, and apply HR policies with consistency and care.
• You’ve developed and supported performance and capability within a team, helping others step up and succeed.
• You know how to lead through change — keeping your team motivated and focused.

You walk the talk — showing up every day as a role model for service and values.

What we’ll give you

Salary will be dependent upon your experience as well as the store size, complexity and location. Alongside this, we also offer a great range of benefits for our managers, including:

• Discount card – 10% discount off on your shopping at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat after four weeks. This increases to 15% discount off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday.
• Pension – we’ll match 4% of your contributions and if you change your pension plan, you may receive more from us.
• Free food and hot drinks provided for Colleagues in all our stores.
• Generous holiday entitlement, maternity and paternity leave.
• Sainsbury’s share scheme – build up an investment at discounted rates
• Wellbeing support – access to emotional support, counselling, legal and financial advice
• Colleague networks – link with like-minded people to help fulfil your potential.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme gives you the opportunity to hire a new bike and cycling equipment, whilst saving on tax and NI.
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.