Buyer - Gaming

Retail; Greater London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Pensions and life cover

Performance bonus up to 10% of salary

Generous holiday allowance

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Argos is seeking a Buyer for Gaming Accessories to own a significant product range and translate category strategy into actionable plans that drive sales, margin and stock efficiency. You’ll lead range selection, pricing, supplier negotiations, funding and promotional activity, using market insights to inform decisions.

The role involves collaboration with Digital, Marketing and the Assistant Buyer, with opportunities for early-stage own-brand initiatives and planogram work as needed at Bradwell

Qualifications

• Experience in buying with direct accountability for range, pricing and commercial KPIs.
• Experience using sales, margin and stock data to evaluate decisions.
• Knowledge of gaming products, customers and release cycles.
• Experience negotiating with suppliers and securing favourable terms.

Responsibilities

• Own gaming accessories range and translate category strategy into plans.
• Lead range selection, pricing, funding and promotional activity.
• Review trading, respond to product announcements and plan with suppliers.
• Collaborate with Digital and Marketing on launches.
• Support planogram work and potential own-brand opportunities.
• Guide an Assistant Buyer while owning the commercial agenda.

Skills

Buying experience

Supplier negotiations

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Gaming product knowledge

Job description

About the team

Gaming is one of Argos’ most fast-moving commercial categories, bringing customers the latest consoles, accessories, software and digital products from leading global brands. The team works across Buying, Merchandising, Digital, Marketing and suppliers to turn new announcements and release plans into compelling customer propositions, often at pace.

More about the role

As Buyer for Gaming Accessories, you’ll own a significant product range and translate category strategy into plans that deliver sales, margin, stock, availability, digital and customer measures. You’ll lead range selection, pricing, supplier negotiations, funding and promotional activity, using customer, market and competitor insight to make decisions.

Your day could include responding to a product announcement, reviewing trading, agreeing plans with suppliers, working with the Assistant Buyer on product set-up, or collaborating with Digital and Marketing on a launch. You’ll also contribute to an early-stage own-brand opportunity and support planogram work at Bradwell Abbey when required.

More about you

You’ll bring buying experience with direct accountability for commercial decisions and be able to show how data informed measurable outcomes. You’ll understand gaming products, customers, suppliers, launches or competitors.

You’ll work independently, manage supplier negotiations and deliver through cross-functional teams. You’ll also provide clear guidance to an experienced Assistant Buyer while retaining ownership of the commercial agenda.

Essential criteria

• Buying experience with direct accountability for range selection, pricing, supplier activity and commercial KPIs.
• Evidence of using sales, margin, stock, availability, customer and competitor data to make and evaluate decisions.
• Demonstrable knowledge of gaming products, customers, release cycles, suppliers or competitors.
• Experience of supplier management and negotiation, including pricing, funding, terms or performance actions.
• Evidence of independently delivering a category or range plan through cross-functional stakeholders in multi-channel retail.

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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.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 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).