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 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.

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