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Argos Store Manager - Inside Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's
London, England, United Kingdom["Full time"]
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Just think what you could achieve at Argos. 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. 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.
Essential Criteria
• 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.