Compliance Manager: Argos

Sainsbury’s; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pensions & life cover

Performance-related bonus up to 20%

Annual leave + buy extra week

Private healthcare

Season ticket loans

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

retailer discounts

Job summary

Sainsbury's Limited, via Argos, is seeking a Compliance Manager to lead facilities management (FM) compliance across our London estate, coordinating with service providers to keep buildings safe and compliant. You will manage statutory maintenance, data reporting, and investigations to drive improvements.

Applicants should demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement, remote team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong facilities management and/or compliance management experience.
• Significant stakeholder management with ability to influence senior managers.
• Proven leadership skills to manage remote teams and external suppliers.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and multiple service providers.
• Creative problem solving using data analysis to inform decisions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of business performance, and the ability to help the supply chain see the impact of its decisions.
• Attention to detail in assessing supplier performance and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Work with compliance providers to ensure planned maintenance is completed safely and in compliance.
• Schedule statutory maintenance within required timeframes using the FM system.
• Keep maintenance schedules accurate with current service providers and tasks.
• Produce compliance performance data and report to stakeholders.
• Present updates on safety and compliance performance to forums as needed.
• Challenge non-completion of planned maintenance and hold providers to account for compliance.
• Facilitate contractor investigations following safety incidents and share findings with stakeholders.
• Identify legislative changes and review providers with Health and Safety and procurement teams.

Skills

Facilities Management

Stakeholder management

Leadership (remote teams)

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Written and verbal communication

Business performance awareness

Supplier performance assessment

Job description

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Hours: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 13 November 2026
Requisition ID: 400091096

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.

Every Argos store and building needs to be safe for the colleagues and customers who use it. As our Compliance Manager, you’ll make sure that happens. You’ll lead the way we manage Facilities Management (FM) compliance across the estate, working with our compliance service delivery contractor and FM service providers to build a high performing safety and compliance culture.

This role matters because statutory compliance work has to be scheduled and completed on time. You’ll lead a team that keeps stakeholders informed from the first issue through to resolution. When a major safety incident, near miss or injury affects a site’s ability to operate, you’ll help drive the investigation. You’ll work with a wide range of internal and external partners, and your decisions will directly affect the safety of our buildings and the people in them.

What you’ll be doing

• Working closely with compliance service providers to make sure all planned preventative maintenance and remedial actions are completed, keeping our buildings safe and compliant
• Managing the scheduling of statutory planned preventative maintenance through our computer aided FM system, making sure it’s delivered within the required timeframes
• Keeping maintenance schedules accurate and up to date, reflecting current service providers and tasks, in partnership with the wider FM team
• Producing compliance performance data against key FM measures and reporting regularly to stakeholders
• Presenting updates on safety and compliance performance, innovation and changes to ways of working to the right forums at the right time
• Challenging non completion of planned maintenance and remedial actions, and holding providers to account for compliance
• Working with the FM team to facilitate contractor investigations following safety incidents, and keeping stakeholders updated on findings and next steps
• Partnering with Health and Safety, Procurement and the wider FM team to spot legislative changes and compliance gaps, and regularly reviewing providers so they stay fit for purpose, innovative and efficient

What experience you’ll bring (essential skills)

• Strong Facilities Management and/or compliance management experience
• Significant stakeholder management experience, with the confidence to present to and influence senior managers, both internally and externally
• Proven leadership skills, including the ability to manage and motivate remote teams to improve the performance of external suppliers
• Experience working with cross functional teams and multiple service providers
• Creative problem solving, using data analysis to inform decisions and find solutions to store compliance and safety challenges
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• A good understanding of business performance, and the ability to help the supply chain see the impact of its decisions
• Strong attention to detail when assessing supplier performance, and the ability to represent Argos FM in compliance and safety forums while demonstrating our values and strategic thinking

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 20% 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 up to an additional weeks holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary 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).