Stock Optimization Business Project Manager

Primark Stores Limited; Reading; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Reading seeks a Stock Optimisation Project Manager to lead a critical transformation project. This role requires extensive experience in project management and familiarity with retail processes. The ideal candidate will manage stakeholder relationships, oversee project delivery, and ensure adherence to quality standards. A degree and a minimum of 10 years in project management are essential. The company promotes an inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Project/Programme Management experience delivering complex solutions.
• Experience in a Retail environment is essential.
• Strong familiarity with various project delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of a major transformation project.
• Establish and maintain strong governance frameworks.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders to maintain project momentum.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Agile Methodologies

Retail Industry Experience

Education

Degree Level Education

Tools

SaaS Allocation and Replenishment Platforms

Job description

Stock Optimisation Project Manager– (Stock Allocation and Replenishment)

Primark is recruiting a Project Manager to lead the Stock Optimisation pillar of its Product Model Programme. This role will deliver a high-impact Allocation and Replenishment solution, driving change across systems, processes, and ways of working.

The Project Manager will provide strategic oversight while ensuring hands-on delivery, managing a complex stakeholder landscape, enforcing strong project governance, and aligning cross-functional teams to achieve outcomes that directly support Primark’s long-term commercial and operational objectives.

What You’ll Do as a Stock Optimisation Project Manager

• 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

• 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.

Primark promotes equal employment opportunity, we strive to create an inclusive workplace where people can be themselves, access opportunities and thrive together.

If you require extra support at any stage of the selection process, please get in touch with our team at [e-mail].