Brand & Attraction Manager in London

Joining the Sainsbury’s team as a Brand & Attraction Manager at Argos offers a unique opportunity to shape how we attract and engage talent across one of the UK’s most recognisable retail brands. In this role, you will lead the development of our employer brand and attraction strategy, ensuring we reach diverse, high-quality talent at scale across Retail, Logistics, Professional and Tech hiring. You’ll work in close partnership with recruitment leaders, People teams and the wider business to deliver creative, data-led attraction campaigns that bring our employer value proposition to life. From enhancing our candidate experience to strengthening our market presence, you’ll play a key role in how Argos is perceived as an employer while contributing to a culture that values ownership, innovation and human connection.

As the Brand & Attraction Manager at Argos, you will lead the development and execution of the overall Talent Attraction, Employer Brand and EVP strategy aligned to business priorities. You’ll partner with Recruitment Managers, People teams and senior stakeholders to understand hiring demand and translate this into impactful attraction plans. This will include designing and delivering high-impact recruitment marketing campaigns across key hiring segments, including transformation roles, seasonal peaks, early careers and niche opportunities. You’ll act as a guardian of the Argos employer brand, ensuring consistent and compelling messaging across all candidate touchpoints, including our careers site, social channels and external attraction partners. You’ll also oversee the performance of attraction channels, using data and insight to optimise activity, improve return on investment and continuously enhance the candidate experience. Alongside this, you’ll build strong relationships with external suppliers and media partners, bring innovative approaches to market, and lead continuous improvement across attraction and employer brand activity to ensure we remain competitive and relevant in the evolving talent landscape.

You are a strategic and commercially minded talent attraction professional with deep expertise in employer branding and recruitment marketing. You bring a strong understanding of how to position an organisation in the external market and create compelling campaigns that attract diverse, high-quality talent. With a data-led mindset, you are confident interpreting insights and translating them into clear, actionable strategies that deliver measurable impact. You are experienced in working at pace across multiple hiring demands and enjoy balancing creativity with performance outcomes. You build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, influencing and aligning around shared goals. You are passionate about delivering an excellent candidate experience and embedding inclusive attraction approaches that support diversity, equity and inclusion across the hiring lifecycle.

Essential criteria:

• Proven experience of developing and delivering talent attraction, employer brand or EVP strategies aligned to organisational objectives
• Demonstrable expertise in recruitment marketing and delivering attraction campaigns across multiple channels, including digital and social platforms
• Experience managing high-impact attraction activity at scale across a variety of hiring needs (e.g. volume, specialist, early careers)
• Ability to analyse recruitment and market data to generate insight and evaluate the performance and ROI of attraction activity
• Experience of partnering with senior stakeholders to influence hiring approaches and deliver agreed outcomes
• Strong understanding of employer brand, candidate journey and inclusive attraction practices

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.

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.