Events Executive
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 27 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400052724
Location
Hybrid working - base location either Manchester, Coventry or London
Why join us
Joining Argos as an Events Executive means being part of a dynamic and innovative team within the Argos People division, where you will play a crucial role in delivering impactful leadership events that bring our strategic outcomes to life. With a focus on continuous improvement and collaboration, you will have the opportunity to work closely with various stakeholders, develop engaging event formats, and contribute to a culture of collective achievement. As we strive for excellence in internal communications and event delivery, you will be empowered to make a meaningful impact while fostering strong relationships and driving positive change across the business.
What you'll do
As the Events Executive at Argos, you will be responsible for the strategic planning and operational delivery of impactful leadership events that align with the company's objectives and priorities. Working closely with the Internal Comms and Culture team, you will develop event formats, engaging content plans, and a calendar of key milestones throughout the year. Your role will involve managing logistics, stakeholder coordination, event platforms, and incorporating feedback to continuously enhance the quality and effectiveness of events across the business. Additionally, you will build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, collaborate with the wider communications team, and contribute to creating a collaborative culture focused on continuous improvement and collective outcomes.
Who you are
As an Events Executive at Argos, you are a seasoned professional in internal communications with a proven track record of creating and delivering impactful events in large, fast-paced organisations. Your ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, including senior leaders, coupled with your keen attention to detail and strong judgement, enables you to develop engaging event formats, agendas, and content plans aligned with strategic priorities. With excellent communication skills and the capacity to work under pressure to tight deadlines, you play a vital role in operational event delivery, fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and a culture of challenging decisions to drive successful outcomes across the business.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience coordinating and delivering internal corporate events, including logistics, stakeholder liaison and platform management.
- Proven ability to create or support development of event content (e.g., agendas, formats, communication materials) aligned to organisational priorities.
- Demonstratable capability in managing multiple time‑sensitive tasks simultaneously, with a track record of meeting tight deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.
- Proven ability to build effective working relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders, to understand briefs and deliver event objectives.
- Demonstrable experience gathering, analysing and summarising event feedback to support continuous improvement and post‑event reporting.
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 5% 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).Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
