Role: Assistant Technologist – Footwear and Accessories
Reports to: Quality Manager
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Contract: Full Time Permanent Role
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What You'll Get
We put our people first at Primark. To support our colleagues, we offer benefits that help you perform at your best.
Some of our benefits include:
* 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays, and the option to buy 5 more
* Flexible working with opportunities for an early Friday finish and a subsidised cafeteria
* Primark Perks – Discounts with local partner businesses near our offices
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What You'll Do:
To support product development and ensure our products meet quality standards and exceed customer expectations.
You will work alongside buying teams, suppliers, and key stakeholders to establish and maintain best practices.
* Understand and support delivery of the Primark Departmental and Quality strategy to deliver the customer promise
* Demonstrate technical knowledge of footwear and accessories to develop safe, legal, and fit-for-purpose products
* Build and develop capability to assess commercial quality and testing requirements
* Assist with product development and adhere to sample process flow
* Investigate all Gold Seal rejections and communicate quality issues to buying teams and suppliers
* Build competitor awareness to enable quality, fit, and performance benchmarking of Primark versus key competitors
* Work with the Primark Compliance team to ensure the Primark Quality Standards are in line with industry standards (Value/Volume retail)
* Demonstrate an understanding of legal/product/retail requirements for labelling
* Organise and run fit sessions for product area of responsibility, communicating clearly to buying teams and suppliers on fit amendments and technical solutions
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What You'll Bring
We value authenticity at Primark. Please bring your genuine self to work, along with some key experience and abilities for this role:
* Strong communication with suppliers on technical product development
* Highlight risk areas from testing submissions and, with support from the Quality Manager, work on an improvement plan
* Communicate and interact clearly and concisely to ensure information is understood by buying teams, retail, and external contacts
* Demonstrate/develop effective communication skills tailored to the audience and objectives; provide feedback and respond to others in a professional, courteous, and respectful manner
* Work effectively with others to deliver common goals; readily offer support
* Respect the ideas and contributions of others and readily take opportunities to learn and seek out stretching opportunities to support own development
* Technical background required. A focus on footwear and/or accessories is preferred
* 4-6 years related industry experience
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We can’t wait to see what you can offer. You’ll be joining a diverse, passionate, and talented team 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. Our recruitment team can determine where your skills may fit in at 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 with over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today.
We succeed Together.