Chemical Compliance Business Partner

Chemical Compliance Business Partner
Purpose of role: Supporting our buying teams with a commercial and proactive approach with a focus on product chemical compliance, that ensures Primark’s products are compliant with the regulatory requirements in our trading countries.
Reports to: Head of Compliance

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

Some of our benefits are:
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

Product and Process

• Under the leadership of the Head of Compliance you will deliver our chemical 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 and other business stakeholders to identify and share chemical product risk by market with a commercial & reputational focus providing recommendations.
• Manage the Primark Product Restricted Substances List (RSL) for all retail markets
• Support the business requirements for new markets, highlighting chemical 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.
• Set, implement, up-date and follow up chemical restrictions in order to create processes, methods and guidelines that supports Primark internal teams and suppliers in a user friendly way
• Working in partnership with the QA teams to ensure the departmental Primark QA manuals, are updated in accordance with business requirements

Suppliers and Service Provider

• Be a representative for Compliance within Primark's supply base
• Work with key stakeholders in our sourcing 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.
• Proven ability in managing sensitive matters whilst ensuring all Primark information remains confidential to the business.

People:

• Maintain regular communication with peer group to ensure consistent ways of working
• Build strong relationships across the quality and sourcing teams to enable more informed decision making
• Proven ability to influence at all levels of the company.
• Coach and up-skill the wider teams as required
• Develop own capability by using resources available and development plans (global partners and 3rd parties)
• Continue to build external and internal networks to strengthen relationships and enhance decision making

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

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.

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