What You’ll Do
The Projects Lead – Small Works & CFE is responsible for leading the strategic planning and delivery of all small works and CFE projects, up to £60m of capital spend, across the Primark store estate. This role ensures high-quality, commercially focused delivery that enhances customer experience, supports store performance, and enables the business to execute projects more efficiently and at pace.
Operating at a mid-senior level, the Projects Lead drives consistency, governance, and innovation across all small works and CFE activity, unlocking efficiencies, reducing costs, and minimising disruption to trading stores while maintaining exceptional brand and safety standards.
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:
- Define the strategic direction for Small Works and CFE across the estate, aligning delivery with business priorities, capital plans and growth ambitions while establishing a consistent, scalable and commercially efficient approach.
- Lead a high-volume, multi-site portfolio of projects, ensuring delivery on time, within budget and to required quality and brand standards, while minimising disruption to trading stores.
- Drive strong commercial and cost management across all programmes, identifying savings opportunities, challenging delivery models and specifications, and maximising return on investment without compromising safety, quality or customer experience.
- Act as a trusted partner across Property, Construction, Retail, Space Optimisation, Design and Procurement, influencing decisions, aligning competing priorities and building strong relationships to enable effective project delivery.
- Lead and optimise the external supply base, developing strong, outcome-focused relationships with suppliers and third-party partners while challenging performance across cost, quality and speed of delivery.
- Embed robust governance, health and safety, risk management and compliance across all projects, ensuring transparency and consistent adherence to Primark standards.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven construction delivery experience within a complex, multi-site environment, ideally with exposure to multiple regions or countries and delivering programmes of Small Works and CFE projects at scale.
- Strong strategic and operational delivery capability, with experience balancing medium-term planning with hands-on project execution across a high-volume portfolio.
- Strong contractor and supply chain management experience, including overseeing on-site construction activity, managing performance and working across complex delivery environments.
- Technical knowledge of construction practices, regulatory requirements and asset lifecycle management, with a strong focus on safe, compliant and commercially disciplined delivery.
- Experience contributing to and developing high-performing teams, creating clear objectives, accountability, engagement and a strong focus on performance.
- Commercially minded and improvement-focused, with the ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement while maintaining operational discipline and consistent delivery standards.
What You’ll Get
Benefits include healthcare, pension and potential bonus; 27 days of leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy five more days; Tax Saver Tickets; a fitness centre; and a subsidised cafeteria.
About Primark
Primark was founded on a mission that everyone deserves to look and feel good without paying more. Founded in Ireland in 1969, Primark is now an international fashion retailer with 500 stores across 19 countries in Europe, the US and the Middle East, employing more than 80,000 colleagues.