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Stock Optimization Project Manager
Stock Optimisation Project Manager
The Stock Optimisation Project Manager will lead the successfully delivery of the complex, high-impact Stock Optimisation project, within the overarching Product Model Programme. This role requires project level oversight, combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, to drive end-to-end change across systems, process and ways of working.
The Stock Optimisation Project Manager will be accountable for managing a complex stakeholder landscape, aligning cross-functional teams, ensuring tight governance and delivering outcomes that directly enable Primark’s long-term commercial and operational goals.
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 as a Stock Optimisation Project Manager
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:
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:
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.
BR Req Number 145868BR
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The Stock Optimisation Project Manager will lead the successfully delivery of the complex, high-impact Stock Optimisation project, within the overarching Product Model Programme. This role requires project level oversight, combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, to drive end-to-end change across systems, process and ways of working.
The Stock Optimisation Project Manager will be accountable for managing a complex stakeholder landscape, aligning cross-functional teams, ensuring tight governance and delivering outcomes that directly enable Primark’s long-term commercial and operational goals.
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 as a Stock Optimisation Project Manager
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of a major, business-critical transformation project across people, process and technology, ensuring alignment with the Product Model overarching objectives.
- Define and own the project delivery, including scope, timeline, milestones, resource plans and critical dependencies.
- Establish and maintain strong governance frameworks, ensuring rigorous risk management, issue resolution and clear escalation paths.
- Engage and influence senior stakeholders across Primark and third-party vendors to secure engagement and maintain momentum.
- Manage multi-functional delivery teams, made up of internal and external resource, ensuring that roles and accountabilities are clear, and progress is transparent.
- Track project progress, KPIs and budgets, addressing variances and challenges, reporting to senior leadership.
- Ensure that the project adheres to best practice and quality standards in technology delivery and implementation.
- Integrate change management, communication and training plans into the overarching project plan to support adoption and deliver lasting process improvements.
- Follow and champion the mandated Primark delivery approach, continuously seeking opportunities to optimise delivery performance.
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:
- Educated to degree level with 10+ years of Project / Programme Management experience delivering complex solutions.
- Experience of working within a Retail environment is essential, whilst experience in Allocation, Replenishment and Forecasting is highly desirable/advantageous.
- Experience in delivering scaled technology-enabled change, including the configuration, testing and deployment of a new SaaS based Allocation and Replenishment Platform and associated integration would be an advantage.
- Extensive Experience of all phases of testing, including; System Testing (ST), Systems Integration Testing (SIT) and End to End (E2E) Testing and Performance Testing required to test the solution prior to go live.
- Experience in Cutover/Implementation methodologies, process redesign and operating model change.
- Strong familiarity with various project delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) with the ability to pragmatically apply them as and when required.
- Exceptional Stakeholder Management and Communication skills, with a proven ability to influence at senior levels and in managing cross-functional teams and external partners.
- Proven track record of navigating ambiguity and complexity, whilst maintaining delivery momentum and clear focus on business outcomes.
- Meticulous in planning, allocating and managing resource, to ensure project outcomes are successfully delivered.
- Considerable experience in working with or alongside Technology teams and third-party vendors on major platform rollouts.
- Strong commercial acumen and budget management experience on multi-million-pound projects.
- High emotional intelligence, resilience and a collaborative leadership style.
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.
BR Req Number 145868BR
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