Security programme Manager

What You’ll Get

The world is changing and it’s important 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:

• 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 business to our office.

Purpose of the Role

Primark Technology is on a transformation journey supporting the business strategy which includes modernising our operating model as well as technology architecture and Cyber Security and Risk posture.

This role is key in building and improving Primark’s Cyber Security posture.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Actively progress and improve Primark’s cyber security posture with the delivery of agreed projects / initiatives aligned with industry best practice.
• Ensure project deliverables are aligned with the Cyber Roadmap with outcomes directly addressing strategic objectives / maturity gaps / audit points.
• Advise and lead on solutions with our internal teams / outsourced partners, having a ‘hands on approach’ including the construction of business cases and contractual arrangements.
• Have a metric based approach with a structure to enable auditing and managing vendor performance.
• Coordinating resources, preparing delivery teams for kick-off and ensure effective completion of milestones, controlling scope and mitigating risks.
• Managing the scope of programme delivery from inception to service delivery – defining, developing and managing implementation schedules
• Maintaining a roadmap of future initiatives, that effectively facilitates the prioritisation of delivery plans.
• Ensuring an ongoing focus on delivering the required quality/value for money and compliance with published standards and guidelines.
• Co-ordinates cross-functional team members, identifies resources needed, assigns and prioritises tasks/responsibilities and ensures deadlines are met.
• Reports and manages timely with regular communication of programme statuses (including attending programme boards and steering committees).
• Supports day-to-day prioritisation of work, scope, and troubleshoots reported project issues.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• 8+ years’ experience with traditional Waterfall and Agile delivery methodology and development methods
• Certified with appropriate qualifications is desirable
• Structured Project Management : Prince / PMP
• Agile certification, such as Scrum, SaFe, AgilePM
• Information Security / Data Protection certification
• An appropriate degree, equivalent qualification or experience

Desirable

• Be a passionate and visionary technologist able to inspire others to challenge and disrupt the current reality to co-create a compelling technology-orientated future business by
• Being able to scan potential technologies (established, emerging and emergent)
• Finding ways to translate that into business opportunities
• Be able to take people along with you, empowering new ways of working and successfully executing on those opportunities
• Have extensive cyber security delivery and programme/project management experience, Retail experience would be beneficial
• Be technically strong across a range of IT disciplines and systems, including cloud and network security
• Have worked in a Programme delivery role in a matrixed, distributed and diverse team
• Have proven experience of working in large, complex technology programmes involving multiple concurrent projects with significant experience of delivering through offshore/nearshore strategic vendors
• Knowledge of security frameworks & standards (ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, GDPR, SOC 2)
• Be experienced in ‘hands on’ technology software delivery from initiation to implementation
• Have knowledge of programme and project management methodology and managing full lifecycle of programmes from definition to BAU service whilst tracking and reporting on progress
• Experience of resource management and budget management/planning
• Be used to working efficiently in a time-sensitive setting and to tight deadlines, maintaining risk and cost constraints at critical points in the programme/project
• Be an excellent communicator and an effective problem solver

Business Context

• Really exciting time for Primark
• Ambitious growth and transformation agenda
• Expansion into new markets and store growth in existing markets
• Deliver more memorable in-store experiences every day
• Further deliver on our Primark Cares sustainability strategy
• Create operational excellence to support and empower our customer-facing teams
• Cyber Security & Technology will be at the heart of this growth and transformation agenda
• We want to use the latest technologies to do things smarter, better and faster
• …to continue to offer Amazing Fashion at Amazing Prices

Ready? Good – because we can’t wait to see what you can offer. You’ll be joining a team of diverse, passionate, and talented individuals where you’ll truly belong, collaborating on projects that will shape the future of our industry. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or another one, and our recruitment team can determine where your skills may fit in at Primark.

Apply to be part of our future and we’ll help you develop yours.

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 with 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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