Argos Store Manager – Inside Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury's Limited; St Albans; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discount card

Pension

Free food and hot drinks for Colleagu

Generous holiday entitlement

Sainsbury's share scheme

Wellbeing support

Cycle to Work scheme

Special offers on gym memberships

Job summary

Argos Store Manager - Inside Sainsbury's in St Albans is seeking a proactive leader to build and guide a high-performing team. You’ll champion customer experience, drive store performance, and model the values that keep our customers returning.

In this role you’ll own scheduling, training, and day-to-day operations for a fast-moving store, using commercial insight to optimise service, sales and colleague development. A rewarding career path awaits within the Argos/Sainsbury's network.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing team and set high standards for customer service.
• Drive store performance with clear plans and actions.
• Ensure staff are trained and developed to reach potential.
• Manage scheduling, resources and daily operations in a fast-moving store.
• Lead through change while maintaining service excellence.
• Use customer insights to improve experiences.

Job description

Argos Store Manager - Inside Sainsbury's

Salary: Competitive plus benefits
Location: St Albans Store, St Albans, AL1 2QU
Hours: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos Retail
Closing date: 30 October 2026
Requisition ID: 400088757

Availability Window

Early shift: 07:00 - 15:00
Late shift: 12:00 - 20:00

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. 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 coach and communicator, you'll support as strongly as you challenge and be 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.

How you'll progress

There's a host of routes to choose from. Prove yourself in this role, and we'll really encourage you to develop. Whether you choose to stay with Argos or move across and develop in one of our Sainsbury's stores or regions, you'll have every opportunity to take your career where you want it to go.

• 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’ve managed a fast-paced operation, delivering results across service, sales, customer outcomes and team performance.
• 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.