AddressPrimark currently operates over 400 stores across 16 regions globally, leading to a complex and challenging tax and compliance landscape. Primark is on the lookout for a deep thinker in this space, with insight into how the right technology decisions can help Primark's growth trajectory and that the company's tax technology strategy is aligned to the company's long-term growth targets.
By combining tax technical expertise with technology and systems optimisation opportunities, the successful candidate will work with key stakeholders across the business to help tax leaders and their departments respond quickly to regulatory change, reduce costs, facilitate streamlined processes, transform data into broader commercial insight and enable effective collaboration across the tax department and beyond.
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:
• 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more.
• Flexible Working, opportunity for an early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria.
• Primark Perks - Discounts with some local partner business to our offices
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:
- Creating effective working relationships with teams to support transformation within the areas of corporate tax, indirect tax, and external reporting.
- Initiating and translating a product roadmap into a manageable product backlog and prioritising delivery based on value, risk and service considerations
- Assessing the key tax technology touchpoints across Primark's end-to-end business processes
- Overseeing the design, build and integration of tax requirements and processes into ERP systems and wider tax technology solutions.
- Knowing our market, our competition and our business models.
- Keeping abreast of new technical developments which could improve or redefine the product and customer experience
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:
- At least 3 years' Product Owner experience in a complex and fast-paced environment
- Experience of Tax Compliance processes and technologies, preferably in a retail environment.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- An appropriate degree, equivalent qualification or experience
- Preferably a certification in Agile Product Ownership, Scaled Agile or equivalent
- Be a passionate and visionary technologist able to inspire others to challenge and disrupt the current reality to co-create a compelling technology-orientated future business by:
- Being able to scan potential technologies (established, emerging and emergent)
- Finding ways to translate that into business opportunities
- Be able to take people along with you, empowering new ways of working and successfully executing on those opportunities
- Have excellent knowledge of relevant business portfolio and functional expertise
Ready? Good - because we can't wait to see what you can offer. You'll be joining a team of diverse, passionate, and talented individuals where you'll truly belong, collaborating on projects that will shape the future of our industry. If you're excited about this role but don't meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or another one, and our recruitment team Can determine where your skills may fit in at Primark.
Apply to be part of our future and we'll help you develop yours.
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