Projects & CFE Lead

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Reading; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Pension

Bonus potential

27 days of leave

Tax Saver Tickets

Fitness centre

Subsidised cafeteria

Job summary

Primark is seeking a mid-senior Projects & CFE professional to lead strategic roll-outs across the store estate. You will balance pace with store disruption, ensuring high-quality delivery that supports store performance and customer experience.

You will collaborate with Design, Procurement and external partners to translate concepts into scalable, commercially viable solutions while driving value and safety standards across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering construction and roll-out programmes across multi-site environments.
• Strong understanding of fixtures, equipment, and retail environments.
• Experience collaborating with Design, Procurement and suppliers; translating concepts into scalable solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management with internal teams, consultants, and external partners.
• Strong leadership and ability to drive continuous improvement in fast-paced settings.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction for store roll-outs and CFE programmes aligned with capital plans and growth.
• Lead high-volume, multi-site projects ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery with quality and brand standards.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery from drawings to deployment, balancing pace with minimal disruption.
• Partner with Design and procurement to translate concepts into scalable retail solutions.
• Drive cost management, supplier performance and value without compromising safety.
• Develop and manage a high-performing supplier base and governance across regions.
• Embed health, safety, risk and compliance across all project activities.
• Provide inclusive leadership and build cross-functional relationships to align priorities.

Skills

Strategic rollout direction

Multi-site project leadership

Stakeholder management

Supply chain management

Health & safety governance

Budget and value delivery

Job description

What’s a career at Primark all about? The positive impact you’re making, the experiences you’re having and the people you’re with. You’re our inspiration. Embrace what sets you apart, own your career and develop in ways you never expected. Leave your mark. And do it your way

Job Description

What You’ll Do

The Projects & CFE is responsible for leading the strategic planning and delivery of all CFE and roll outs (up to 60m of capital spend) across the Primark store estate. This role ensures high-quality, commercially focused delivery that enhances customer experience, supports store performance, and enables the business to execute projects more efficiently and at pace.

Operating at a mid-senior level, the Projects & CFE drives consistency, governance, and innovation across all roll outs and CFE activity, unlocking efficiencies, reducing costs, and minimising disruption to trading stores while maintaining exceptional brand and safety standards.

In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:

• Set the strategic direction for roll-outs and CFE programmes across the estate, aligning delivery with business priorities, capital plans and growth ambitions while establishing a consistent, scalable approach.
• Lead a high-volume, multi-site portfolio of projects, including store roll-outs, CFE, fixtures, equipment, retail environments and branding programmes, ensuring delivery to agreed timelines, budgets, quality and brand standards.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of CFE programmes, from technical drawings, prototyping and testing through to implementation and estate-wide deployment, balancing pace with minimal disruption to trading stores.
• Partner closely with Design and key business functions to translate new retail concepts, fixtures, displays and shop-in-shop solutions into scalable, operationally effective and commercially viable solutions.
• Drive strong commercial and cost management, challenging specifications, delivery models, component selection and supplier performance to improve value, efficiency and return on investment without compromising quality, safety or customer experience.
• Develop and manage a high-performing supply base, working closely with Procurement on sourcing, supplier onboarding, commercial negotiations and performance across fixtures, equipment, branding and retail environment solutions.
• Lead effective governance and continuous improvement, embedding robust health & safety, risk management and compliance while identifying opportunities to improve speed, scalability, sustainability and overall delivery efficiency.
• Provide strong, inclusive leadership and cross-functional collaboration, building effective relationships across Property, Construction, Retail, Space Optimisation, Design, Equipment and external partners. Develop team capability, accountability and commercial awareness while creating alignment around shared priorities and outcomes.

Qualifications

What You’ll Bring

We want every person in our organisation to feel like they’re making a key contribution. Here are some of the experiences and skills you’ll need for the role:

• Proven experience delivering construction and roll-out programmes within complex, multi-site environments, ideally across multiple regions or countries, with experience delivering CFE projects at scale.
• Strong technical understanding of fixtures, equipment and retail environments, including technical drawings, prototyping, product specifications, bills of quantities and deployment requirements.
• Experience working closely with Design, Procurement, suppliers and manufacturers, translating concepts into practical, scalable solutions and successfully delivering them across multiple locations.
• Strong supply chain and supplier management experience, including developing, onboarding and managing supplier networks across multiple project categories to deliver quality, value and performance.
• Understanding of fixture and equipment lifecycle management, including deployment, storage, refurbishment, recycling and asset optimisation, with a focus on improving efficiency and sustainability.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across internal teams, consultants, contractors and external partners, aligning different priorities around successful delivery.
• Strong organisational, commercial and leadership capability, with experience managing multiple projects and competing demands in a fast-paced environment, while supporting high-performing teams and driving continuous improvement.

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:

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.

Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.

Additional Information

About Primark

Primark is an international clothing retailer employing more than 80,000 colleagues across 19 countries in Europe, UAE and the US. Founded in Ireland in 1969 under the Penney’s brand, Primark aims to create maximum joy at minimum cost – less money and less impact on the planet. Primark continues to expand across new and existing markets with the aim of reaching 530 stores by the end of 2026. Every person impacts the culture at Primark. Our values: Caring (we always strive to put people first), Dynamic (we bravely push the boundaries to stay ahead) and Together (we learn more, laugh more and achieve more as a team) outline the behaviours we expect of our people as we work with each other, our customers, our suppliers and our partners. Let’s see what impact you can make!