Project Manager – Marketing Operations 12 Month FTC
Our Brand and Marketing teams are right at the heart of what we do. Surrounded by some of the best brand specialists in the industry, you’ll bring your own ideas to the business - working to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team.
Primark is a global business, with exciting expansion plans across existing & emerging markets. As part of this growth, the brand is also evolving and going through some changes. This role will support the project team to deliver the new brand World across our store portfolio & online channels. Working with both internal & external partners, they will be responsible for supporting a large scale roll out of the brand across existing stores over the course of the 12 Month term. You will work hand in hand with our 3rd party print partner, our retail colleagues, store design & our brand guardians to ensure the effective delivery of this project.

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:
• Working with the brand team, store design, retail operations & other key stakeholders, understand the comprehensive list of needs for our new branding in our stores.
• Engage key stakeholders to identify areas where the brand needs to be reviewed and updated.
• Complete and sign off on the brief to our creative agency to determine how this will come to life across instore, digital & product.
• Feeding into the brand steering group, ensure full buy in and support on finalised assets & direction.
• Working alongside our 3rd party installation partner, review & critique over 350+ store packs to ensure they adhere to brand guidelines & parameters.
• Alongside the Head of Marketing Operations, own the end to end, full project lifecycle from brief to installation.
• Partnering with our finance business partner, accurately report on spend against budget, escalating any key concerns or savings as the project progresses.
• Regularly review spend against forecast in line with Primark’s accounting calendar, ensuring we are within forecast.
• Working alongside the brand business partner, be responsible for all new briefs require development under the brand world, protecting the integrity of the brand strategy & adhering to brand principles.
• Maintain the master project tracker using a phased approach, identifying key initial priorities and supporting on managing expectations & timelines for briefs.
• Be able to spot opportunities to consolidate asks across teams to formulate one brief rather than many different asks.

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 and have at least 3+ years PMO experience
• Formal Project Management qualification
• Experience in a fast-paced, global retail environment preferred
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with previous budget mgmt. experience.
• Self-motivated with the ability to be comfortable in an agile role
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and collaborate across multi country, diverse and multi-functional teams to effectively deliver business strategies
• Effective communication skills enabling effective engagement with a diverse stakeholder group both across the business and externally
• Effective and persuasive presentation skills, including the ability to present complex information in an understandable manner to all areas of the business
• Collaborative team player demonstrating high levels of emotional intelligence and the ability to advance with professionalism.
• Marketing experience or knowledge desirable but not a necessity.

Ready? Good - because we can’t wait to see what you can offer. You’ll be joining a team of diverse, creative, and motivated professionals 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 assist you develop yours.
If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility requests, 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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