Brand & Attraction Manager

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.

Joining as a Brand & Attraction Manager at Argos offers a rare opportunity to shape the future of employer brand for one of the UK’s most recognisable retail brands. This role gives you the chance to help build and define how Argos attracts and engages talent from the ground up. You’ll lead the development of our employer brand and attraction strategy across the hiring landscape, helping us connect with diverse, high‑quality talent at scale.

Working in close partnership with recruitment leaders, People teams and the wider business, you’ll deliver creative, insight‑led attraction campaigns that bring our EVP to life and shape how Argos is perceived as an employer. From candidate experience to storytelling, social and strategic attraction planning, you’ll play a key role in building a modern, human and commercially impactful employer brand.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the development and execution of the overall Talent Attraction, Employer Brand and EVP strategy aligned to business priorities.
• Partner with Recruitment Managers, People teams and senior stakeholders to understand hiring demand and translate this into impactful attraction plans.
• Design and deliver high‑impact recruitment marketing campaigns across key hiring segments.
• Act as a guardian of the Argos employer brand, ensuring consistent and compelling messaging across all candidate touchpoints.
• Oversee the performance of attraction channels, using data and insight to optimise activity and improve return on investment.
• Build strong relationships with external suppliers and media partners, bringing innovative approaches to market.

Who You Are

• A strategic and commercially minded talent attraction professional with deep expertise in employer branding and recruitment marketing.
• Strong understanding of how to position an organisation in the external market and create compelling campaigns.
• Experienced in working at pace across multiple hiring demands.
• Passionate about delivering an excellent candidate experience and embedding inclusive attraction approaches.

Essential Criteria

• Proven experience of developing and delivering talent attraction, employer brand or EVP strategies.
• Demonstrable expertise in recruitment marketing and delivering attraction campaigns across multiple channels.
• Experience managing high‑impact attraction activity at scale across a variety of hiring needs.
• Ability to analyse recruitment and market data to generate insight and evaluate performance.
• Strong understanding of employer brand, candidate journey and inclusive attraction practices.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whatever you are and wherever you work. We take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and offer flexible working.

When you join our team, we’ll offer you an amazing range of benefits including colleague discount, pensions scheme, life cover, performance‑related bonus, annual holiday allowance, private healthcare, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.

Moments that matter are important to us which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.