Product Technologist - Womenswear
Lead the technical development and quality assurance of womenswear products across multiple product categories, ensuring products are safe, compliant, fit for purpose, and commercially viable across all price points.
What You’ll Do
- Partner closely with Buying, Design, Compliance, and supplier teams to translate creative concepts into high-quality products, leveraging expertise in garment construction, fit, patterns, testing, and product development.
- Drive quality standards through robust risk assessment, testing evaluation, product approvals, and competitor benchmarking, ensuring all products meet Primark quality and legal requirements.
- Monitor product performance through testing submissions, returns analysis, customer feedback, and supplier reporting, identifying risks early and delivering effective corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Build strong supplier partnerships by leading quality discussions, resolving technical and quality issues, driving process efficiencies, and supporting compliance with Primark quality standards.
- Influence and engage stakeholders at all levels through effective communication, training, and presentations, promoting a culture of quality excellence while supporting the womenswear Quality strategy and improving sampling success rates.
- Coach and develop team members through regular feedback, performance conversations, and tailored development plans.
- Promote collaboration, consistency, and fair decision-making across teams.
- Deliver training and best-practice guidance on sample approval, quality standards, and product testing to Quality Assurance, Buying teams, and suppliers.
- Partner with offshore Quality teams, Buying teams, and suppliers to resolve CFS rejections, drive continuous improvement, and ensure consistent quality standards.
- Seek development opportunities, share knowledge, and build capability across the wider team.
What You’ll Get
Benefits include healthcare, pension, potential bonus, 27 days of leave plus bank holidays, the option to buy five additional days, Tax Saver Tickets, a fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.
About Primark
Primark is an international retailer that has grown from its first store in Dublin in 1969 to over 80,000 colleagues and over 500 stores in 20 countries.