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hackajob is collaborating with Sainsbury’s DTD to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Description New Business Coordinator This role can be both Coventry or London based. About The Team The Categories team within Argos Commercial & Digital is responsible for identifying, developing and launching new product ranges across multiple categories. Working collaboratively with suppliers and internal departments, the team ensures commercially strong, customer-focused propositions reach market efficiently.
More About The Role
As a New Business Coordinator, you will manage the administrative engine behind supplier onboarding, SKU setup and range development. You will track timelines, maintain documentation, schedule stakeholder meetings and support project progression from concept to launch. You will help deliver key metrics by ensuring smooth coordination and strong communication across the business.
More About You
You will be highly organised, proactive, and effective at managing multiple tasks. You will bring strong communication skills and the ability to work confidently with suppliers and internal teams. Your experience in buying, merchandising, account management or similar environments will help you support cross‑functional projects and keep priorities moving.
Essential Criteria
- Previous buying, merchandising or account management experience
- Ability to build positive relationships and to interact directly with external suppliers
- Coordination of administrative and project‑related tasks
- Forward planning and organizational skills with the ability to manage time and conflicting priorities effectively
- Ability to communicate clearly with stakeholders
- Maintain accurate records and documentation
Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
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 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 up to an additional week’s 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, 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).
