Buying Admin Assistant - Extended Range

Job description

Buying Admin Assistant - Extended Range

Location: Milton Keynes

Excellent Salary & Benefits

The Company

With a catalogue in over 70% of UK homes, thousands of product lines and annual sales that top £3 billion, Argos is one of the country's largest non-food retail chains. A pioneer in multi-channel retailing that's growing fast and constantly innovating. This role sits at the heart of the business and it's impossible to overstate the impact it has. You may not have considered anything like this before but, if you have the right skillset and attitude, this is your chance to move into a new and highly rewarding career.

The Role

You'll be providing administrative support to the Merchandisers or Buyers in your team, including preparation of documentation, raising and tracking orders, setting up new suppliers on the system, distributing and filing internal and external documentation.

You should have a confident and professional telephone manner as you will be required to liaise regularly with customers, suppliers and other areas of the business.

This is the entry level role into the Merchandising and Buying teams and if you are looking to progress a career within Argos, this is an excellent place to start.

The Person

You will need a minimum of GCSE standard education or equivalent, with Grade C or above (or equivalent) in Maths and English, together with previous administrative experience. However we will consider graduates who have no commercial office administration experience.

You should possess excellent organisation and prioritisation skills along with an assertive and confident yet professional and personable manner which enables you to build effective relationships with suppliers but also challenge where required.

Other Information

Besides real scope for individuality and excellent career development prospects, Home Retail Group offers highly competitive rewards and benefits, annual bonus, a generous pension scheme, 24 days holiday, an immediate 10% discount on all Argos products and 20% discount at Homebase.

What we hope you will do next

Please complete our short application process by clicking apply now.

Argos operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions or trade union membership