Sustainability Project Manager

Sustainability Project Manager

Primark

Dublin, Ireland

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:

• Drive effective project delivery by planning, coordinating and tracking key activities across all workstreams, ensuring outputs meet required quality standards;
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies and issues, escalating or implementing mitigation actions to protect the project’s critical path;
• Establish and manage project governance rhythms, ensuring clear reporting, timely decision‑making and alignment to programme objectives;
• Build strong relationships across teams, influencing stakeholders and fostering a collaborative environment that supports shared goals;
• Represent the project confidently in multi‑level working groups, preparing accurate materials and communicating progress with clarity and impact;
• Monitor and report on project KPIs, evolving insights and reporting to support fast‑paced delivery and effective risk management;
• Coordinate resources across internal and external teams, ensuring workstreams remain on track, aligned and focused on delivering high‑quality outcomes.

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:

• Degree‑educated with 3+ years’ project management experience in a fast‑paced global retail or sustainability environment; formal PM qualifications (PMP/PRINCE2) are a plus;
• Proven track record delivering large‑scale transformation projects, with strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, plan and meet deadlines;
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, able to simplify complex information and engage confidently with diverse stakeholder groups;
• Strong relationship‑builder with experience collaborating across multi‑country, cross‑functional teams, demonstrating emotional intelligence, diplomacy and professionalism;
• Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail, capable of interrogating large data sets while maintaining a clear strategic overview;
• Resilient, proactive and calm under pressure, with the ability to lead, influence and handle sensitive matters confidentially and effectively.