Packaging Project Manager

Primark Stores Limited; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Dublin is seeking a Packaging Project Manager for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The successful candidate will oversee the governance, planning, and coordination of a project aimed at transforming packaging and messaging. Responsibilities include building cross-functional collaboration, managing project timelines, and ensuring project delivery on budget. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of project management experience and a proven track record in cross-functional delivery. The company offers comprehensive benefits including healthcare and pension.

Benefits

Healthcare

Pension

27 days of leave plus bank holidays

Flexible working options

Subsidised cafeteria

Qualifications

• Experienced project manager with a strong track record in cross-functional delivery.
• 5+ years of experience.
• Adept at balancing strategic goals with operational realities.
• Experience in setting up and implementing new ways of working with high success.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the overall project plan, governance framework, and milestones.
• Develop a new, integrated, and efficient way of working across key stakeholders.
• Set up a working Group to build cross-functional collaboration.
• Work closely with the Packaging Designers and Packaging Centre of Excellence.
• Share updates and feed into business-wide governance updates.
• Ensure project delivered on time and to budget.

Skills

Project management experience

Cross-functional delivery

Strategic goal balancing

Experience in new ways of working

Job description

Packaging Project Manager - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Because your new ideas are our way new ways of working. Evolve, your way.

Our Customer teams are right at the heart of what we do. Surrounded by some of the best brand and marketing specialists in the industry, you’ll bring your own ideas to the business to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team

The Packaging Project Manager will oversee the governance, planning, and coordination of a key business project. This role will take a project-level view to transform our design and messaging across all packaging and labelling to better communicate around our products. It will involve orchestrating multiple teams, external partners, and diverse stakeholders, setting and managing project timelines, and working with the Packaging Design Manager and Packaging Centre of Excellence to ensure delivery of the project on time and on budget.

This role will be responsible for designing and implementing a new way of working, process map, RACI, and briefing approach for packaging design – to bring the right skills sets together at the right time, improve efficiencies, and connect product messaging across POS, digital, and labelling. It will involve a deep understanding of the process, the stakeholders, the needs, and the application of best practice in this space.

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:

• Establish and manage the overall project plan, governance framework, and milestones to deliver a reimagined packaging design and messaging system - from briefing, design, artwork to a phased roll out.
• Develop a new, integrated, and efficient way of working across key stakeholders and to connect the packaging, POS, and digital messaging, including how technology can play a role.
• Set up a working Group to build cross-functional collaboration across Sustainability, Compliance, QA, Packaging COE, Marketing Operations, Commercial, Digital, Store Design, and more.
• Work closely with the Packaging Designers and Packaging Centre of Excellence to deliver the best solution.
• Work with the Programme Lead to share updates and feed into business-wide governance updates.
• A clear and efficient packaging design and messaging process adopted across the business.
• Project delivered on time and to budget with stakeholder needs considered.

What You’ll Get

The world is changing, and it’s essential 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:

• Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus.
• 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays, and if you want, you can buy 5 more.
• Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.
• Flexible Working, opportunity for an early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria.

Essential

• Experienced project manager with a strong track record in cross-functional delivery.
• 5+ years of experience.
• Adept at balancing strategic goals with operational realities.
• Experience in setting up and implementing new ways of working with high success.

Desirable

• Experience in packaging or with FMCG or Retail experience.
• Experience in design-based projects.

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

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