Packaging Project Manager in Reading

We are seeking a Project Manager to 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 skill 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 as Packaging 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 end‑to‑end delivery of the reimagined packaging design and messaging system—from briefing and design through artwork and phased rollout supported by a clear project plan, milestones, and governance.
• Establish integrated ways of working that connect packaging, POS, and digital messaging, leveraging technology to improve efficiency and consistency.
• Set up and run a cross‑functional Working Group spanning Sustainability, Compliance, QA, Packaging COE, Marketing Ops, Commercial, Digital, Store Design, and other key teams.
• Partner closely with Packaging Designers and the Packaging Centre of Excellence to ensure high‑quality, technically feasible, and on‑brand solutions.
• Coordinate with adjacent programmes and project leads to align dependencies and ensure seamless integration across initiatives.
• Manage external agencies and partners, ensuring on‑time, on‑budget delivery and clear accountability.
• Drive decision‑making, risk management, and governance, aligning stakeholder needs with business priorities, regulatory compliance, budgets, timelines, and a clear RACI for ongoing updates.
• Champion optimisation and scalability, delivering a tech‑enabled, future‑proof packaging design system that improves speed, quality, value perception, and is adopted consistently across the business.

What You’ll Get

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:

• 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 businesses to our offices.
• Hybrid working structure.

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:

• Experienced project manager with 5+ years’ experience delivering complex, cross‑functional projects end to end.
• Proven ability to manage senior and diverse stakeholder groups, aligning competing needs and priorities.
• Strong at balancing strategic objectives with operational delivery, ensuring practical and scalable outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in designing, implementing, and embedding new ways of working across teams.

Desirable

• Experience within Packaging, FMCG, or Retail environments.
• Background in design‑led or creative projects, working closely with designers and agencies.

About Primark

At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.

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