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Assistant Product Technologist

Dublin, Ireland

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job ID 144702BR

Job Status Employee - Permanent

Category Quality & Product Technology

Date posted June 4, 2025

JOB DESCRIPTION

Assistant Product Technologist

Assistant Product Technologist

Our Quality teams are right at the heart of what we do. Surrounded by some of the best Product Technologists in the industry, you’ll bring your own ideas to the business - helping to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team.

Purpose of role:
To contribute to developing product to in line with Primark Quality Assurance Standards. To assist the Product Technologists, buying teams, suppliers and key stakeholders in maintaining best practise and ensuring product meets the Primark customer's expectations.

Reports to: Product Technologist

What You’ll Get
People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best. Let’s talk lifestyle:
Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.

What You’ll Do:
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:
  • Understand and support delivery of the Primark Departmental and Quality strategy to deliver the customer promise.
  • Demonstrates technical knowledge to support the delivery of quality products that are safe, legal and fit for purpose.
  • Build and develop capability to assess commercial quality and testing requirements
  • Assist with product development and adhere to “the Best Practice” sample process flow
  • Investigate all Gold Seal rejections and communicate quality issues to buying teams and suppliers
  • Build competitor awareness to enable quality, fit and performance benchmarking of Primark versus key competitors
  • Work with the Primark Compliance team to ensure the Primark Quality Standards are in line with industry standards (Value/Volume retail).
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the legal/product/retail requirements for labelling
  • Assist in identifying potential fit, fabric or component quality issues

What You’ll Bring
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:
  • Demonstrates/develop effective communication skills tailored to the audience and objectives; provides feedback and responds to others in a professional, courteous and respectful manner.
  • Supports the Product Technologist to deliver training and engagement with Buying teams and Suppliers to improve the sampling hit rate
  • Works effectively with others to deliver common goals; readily offers support.
  • Respects the ideas and contributions of others and readily takes opportunities to learn and seek out stretching opportunities to support own development
  • Demonstrates self-awareness and understanding of own skills, abilities and development areas
  • Communicate with suppliers on the technical development of product.

About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.

If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist.

All offers of employment are subject to background checks, including right to work, reference education and for some roles criminal, and financial checks. If you have any concerns, please reach out to our talent acquisition team to discuss.
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