Open Cross-Brand Roles - Senior Corporate Communications Manager

Why join us

Joining our team at Sainsbury's as the Senior Corporate Communications Manager for Argos means being at the forefront of shaping and safeguarding the corporate reputation of a leading retail brand. You will have the opportunity to lead strategic communications initiatives, provide counsel to senior stakeholders, and play a pivotal role in managing issues and key corporate moments. With a focus on collaboration, innovation, and continuous personal development, this role offers the chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, where creativity, boldness, and effective communication are valued.

What you'll do

As the Senior Corporate Communications Manager at Argos, you will be responsible for shaping and protecting the corporate reputation of the company by leading communications around key business priorities, corporate announcements, reputational issues, and moments of change. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will provide strategic communications counsel, identify reputational risks and opportunities, and develop communication strategies that align with the broader business objectives. Additionally, you will play a crucial role in leading issues-led media relations, managing significant issues reactively and proactively, and ensuring a clear and consistent corporate narrative across external audiences. Your role will involve collaborating with various teams to ensure a unified approach to reputation and key corporate issues, as well as identifying proactive storytelling opportunities that showcase Argos' strategy, progress, and position in the retail landscape.

Who you are

As a Senior Corporate Communications Manager at Argos, you are an accomplished professional with a proven track record in corporate communications, reputation management, and media relations within consumer-facing businesses. Your ability to provide strategic counsel, lead communications around key business priorities, and manage high-profile issues demonstrates your strong commercial judgement and exceptional communication skills. With a focus on building relationships, embracing change, and driving creative solutions, you play a crucial role in shaping and protecting Argos' corporate reputation while ensuring a clear and consistent corporate narrative across external audiences.

Essential criteria

Proven corporate communications experience within a consumer-facing business.

Experience in reputation management, with the ability to identify and manage reputational risks and opportunities. 

Proven media relations experience, including proactively and reactively managing high-profile or sensitive issues. 

Experience leading communications for major business priorities, corporate announcements and periods of change. 

Demonstrable experience providing strategic communications counsel to senior stakeholders. 

Experience in translating business objectives into effective communications strategies.  

Experience working at a senior level across multiple teams to deliver a joined-up communications approach.

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.

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).