Product Lifecycle Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 09 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400067236
At Argos, how we manage our products across their lifecycle is critical to how we deliver for customers and drive strong commercial performance. From planning and trading through to optimisation and exit, this is a space that is constantly evolving as the business grows and changes.
At the centre of that is our Central Merchandising team, bringing together data, insight and cross functional collaboration to shape smarter decisions and continuously improve how we work.
The Product Lifecycle Manager sits right at the heart of this. It’s a cross functional commercial leadership role, working across product areas to support and challenge merchandising teams to deliver their plans. With a strong focus on improving stock health and driving our working capital position, the role plays a key part in building and embedding best in class merchandising planning and trading principles.
This is a fast moving and varied role with plenty of exposure across the business. You’ll be involved in major projects and transformation activity, working through complexity, prioritising what adds the most value and turning data into clear, compelling insight that drives action. It is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys influencing across teams, building strong relationships and making a tangible impact on how the business operates.
What You’ll Do
You will lead how we use data and insight to improve stock health, trading performance and profitability across the business, working closely with merchandising, supply chain, trade planning and digital teams to align activity and priorities. You will play a key role in supporting decision making by translating complex data into clear, meaningful insight that can be easily understood and acted on.
Alongside this, you will be heavily involved in business change, helping teams adapt to new ways of working and improve existing processes. You will bring together risks, opportunities and performance insight to support clear decision making, while building strong relationships across a wide stakeholder group and influencing at all levels.
As a leader, you’ll create a high performing environment within your team, encouraging ownership, curiosity and pace, while developing those around you.
Who You Are
You are a strong commercial thinker with experience in merchandising, stock management or a similar environment, and you are comfortable working across multiple teams in a complex business. You confidently use data to solve problems and shape decisions and are able to work through ambiguity to bring clarity.
You are a natural influencer and communicator, able to simplify complexity and tell a clear, compelling story that brings others with you. You are comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment, and you know how to focus on what really adds value.
You bring a proactive mindset, always looking for ways to improve how things are done, and you show resilience and tenacity when working through challenges. Above all, you build strong relationships and work collaboratively to deliver the best outcomes.
Essential Criteria
- Experience in a merchandising, commercial or stock management role
- Strong analytical capability and confidence working with data
- Proven ability to influence and engage cross functional teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work at pace
- Experience supporting or delivering change in ways of working
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 week's 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)."
