P&C Area Business Partner NI

P&C Area Business Partner

Because your ideas are our style. Culture, our way.

People & Culture at Primark

Our team has created a workplace of inspiration and growth. Be a part of building an inclusive and empowering culture, where all colleague’s unique abilities are recognised and celebrated. Collaborate with a team committed to the wellbeing of our workforce and define what it means to work at Primark.

What You’ll Get

The work you do shapes the impact we have. We’re focused on providing you with the culture to reach your potential. Your wellbeing is our top priority.

Lifestyle at Primark: 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 as a P&C Area Business Partner

In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:

• Recruitment & Workforce Planning: Partner with Recruitment and Retail teams to deliver workforce plans, using data insights to address hiring challenges and support Store P&C BPs in strategic and tactical hiring solutions.
• Learning, Development & Talent Management: Coach and develop leadership and in-store P&C teams, identify training needs, build capability, and lead talent, succession, and development planning to ensure strong pipelines and high-performing teams.
• Engagement, Culture & Performance: Strengthen company culture and colleague engagement, support survey analysis and action planning, drive well-being initiatives, and partner with leadership on performance management, calibration, and development actions.
• Employee Relations & Compliance: Ensure governance of policies and legal compliance, provide expert guidance on ER matters, manage complex cases with internal and external partners, and support positive, inclusive employee relations across regions.
• Stakeholder Management, Reporting & Change: Use KPIs and data insights to inform decisions, influence leadership, support business-wide interventions, lead organisational change, and align P&C strategies with broader business goals.
• Commercial Impact & Behavioural Leadership: Drive business performance through strong commercial insight, operational efficiency, and innovation, while demonstrating key behaviours such as effective decision-making, agility, customer focus, collaboration, and influencing stakeholders.

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:

• 4+ years’ HR experience, including at least 2 years at an experienced HR Manager level, with strong exposure as a Regional/Area Business Partner in retail, ideally within a matrix organisation.
• Proven experience leading the HR/P&C agenda in Northern Ireland, with deep knowledge of NI employment legislation and the ability to navigate multiple legal jurisdictions.
• Experience working in a Trade Union environment, including collective bargaining, pay negotiations, formal consultations, and managing industrial relations risk.
• Strong credibility and ability to advise senior leaders in complex, unionised environments.
• Working knowledge of Republic of Ireland employment law and frameworks is desirable, along with CIPD qualification (Level 5 or 7) or equivalent.
• Retail or multi-site HR experience, with the ability to manage operations across diverse locations.

Ready? Good - because we can’t wait to see what you can offer. You’ll be joining a team of innovative and experienced people where you’ll truly belong, collaborating on projects that will shape the future of our industry. Apply to be part of our future and we’ll support you in developing yours.

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 a 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.

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