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Packaging Project Manager

Reading, United Kingdom

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job ID JR-1636

Job Status Employee Permanent

Category Marketing & Brand

Date posted October 1, 2025

Packaging Project Manager

Packaging Project Manager

 

Because your new ideas are our way new ways of working. Evolve, your way.

 

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

 

The Packaging Project Manager will oversee the governance, planning, and coordination of a key business project. This role will take a project-level view to transform our design and messaging across all packaging and labelling to better communicate around our products.  It will involve orchestrating a multiple teams, external partners and diverse stakeholder, setting and managing project timelines and working with the Packaging Design Manager and Packaging Centre of Excellence to ensure delivery of the project on time and on budget.

 

This role be responsible to designing and implementing a new way of working, process map, RACI and briefing approach for packaging design – to bring the right skills sets together at the right time, improve efficiencies and connect product messaging across POS, digital and labelling. It will involve a deep understanding of the process, the stakeholders, the needs and the application of best practice in this space.


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:

 

  • Establish and manage the overall project plan, governance framework, and milestones to deliver a reimagined packaging design and messaging system - from briefing, design, artwork to a phased roll out.
  • Develop a new, integrated and efficient ways of working across key stakeholders and to connect the packaging, POS and digital messaging  including how technology can play a role
  • Set up a working Group to build cross-functional collaboration across Sustainability, Compliance, QA, Packaging COE, Marketing Operations, Commercial, Digital, Store Design, and more.
  • Work closely with the Packaging Designers and Packaging Centre of Excellence to deliver the best solution
  • Work with the Programme Lead to share updates and feed into business wide governance updates
  • A clear and efficient packaging design and messaging process adopted across the business.
  • Project delivered on time and to budget with stakeholder needs considered

What You’ll Get

 

The world is changing and it’s important we support our colleagues. People are at the heart of what we do at Primark so it’s essential we provide the right environment for you to perform at your best. That’s why we offer benefits that put you first

 

Some of our benefits are:

  • Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus.
  • 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more.
  • Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.  
  • Flexible Working, opportunity for an early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria.

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:

Essential

  • Experienced project manager with a strong track record in cross-functional delivery
  • 5+ years-experience
  • Adept at balancing strategic goals with operational realities.
  • Experience in setting up and implementing new ways of working with high success

Desirable

  • Experience in packaging or with FMCG or Retail experience.
  • Experience in design based projects

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Our fashion isn’t one-size-fits-all and neither is our culture. Primark promotes equal employment opportunity, we strive to create an inclusive workplace where people can be themselves, access opportunities and thrive together.

 

If you require extra support at any stage of the selection process, please get in touch with our team at removingbarriers@primark.co.uk.


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