Role: Product Safety & Compliance Business Partner
Reports to: Head of Compliance
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Contract: Permanent
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.
* 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 offices.
What You’ll Do:
Support our buying teams with a commercial and proactive focus compliance service that ensures Primark’s products are compliant with the regulatory requirements in our trading countries.
Product and Process:
* Under the leadership of the Head of Compliance you will deliver our compliance strategy, aligned to the quality strategy that ensures Primark is legally compliant in all trading countries and enables our future plans.
* Implement agreed compliance processes in line with Primark's quality strategy.
* Working with our buying teams to identify and share product risk by market with a commercial & reputational focus providing recommendations.
* Support the business requirements for new markets, highlighting issues by product type and ensuring commercial and proactive solutions to mitigate risks.
* Work with our QA teams globally and our global partners to develop a best practice compliance end to end process.
* Working in partnership with the QA teams ensure the departmental QA manuals are updated in accordance with business requirements.
* Review and approve all packaging and brand manuals to ensure conformance to Product Compliance.
* Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with relevant local authorities, legal teams and government organisations.
* Work with key internal stakeholders such as customer services, legal & retail teams to support them in their issue management & resolution in each of our markets.
Suppliers and Service Provider:
* Be a representative for Compliance within Primark's supply base.
* Work with key stakeholders in our sourcing and quality teams to drive supplier improvement and to ensure key suppliers deliver more value & service to Primark and are aware of compliance updates and issues.
* Pro-actively make our internal stakeholders aware of any issues arising from compliance interaction with suppliers to ensure a global team approach to issue resolution.
* Excellent attention to detail and an ability to analyse and interrogate high volumes of data as well as demonstrating an ability to focus on higher level overview.
Working with others:
* Experience in working in a multicultural company and supporting & leading global teams.
* Be a collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, while demonstrating high levels of emotional intelligence and possess the ability to push back with professionalism.
* Be highly resilient and adaptable to change, within a fast pace environment.
* Works effectively with others to deliver common goals; readily offers support.
* Respects the ideas and contributions of others and readily takes opportunities to learn and seek out stretching opportunities to support own development.
* Demonstrates self-awareness and understanding of own skills, abilities and development areas.
* Proven ability to manage sensitive matters, whilst ensuring that Primark’s information remains confidential to the business.
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.
If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist.
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