The roles affected embrace 100 roles in Primark’s Dublin head workplace and 50 positions within the UK and US.
The affected job capabilities, which embrace HR, finance and procurement, can be carried out by third-party supplier Accenture.
A Primark spokesperson advised Drapers the enterprise is “exploring how resourcing by way of exterior companions might assist assist [Primark’s] operations”.
“As a part of this, we are actually proposing that quite a lot of assist perform actions transfer to a third-party and we’re starting a collective session. This sadly will affect quite a lot of Primark colleagues primarily in our head workplace operations.
“Whereas that is all about setting us up for future success and persevering with to supply nice merchandise at nice costs to our clients, these usually are not selections we take flippantly. We perceive how tough this information is for these colleagues affected and we’ll be working to assist them as finest we are able to.”
Final week, Drapers completely revealed that Primark’s Dublin-based product groups have been known as again to the workplace 4 days every week.
The measures will come into impact in the beginning of the enterprise’s subsequent monetary yr on 15 September.
On 29 April, the enterprise reported a 1% year-on-year rise in gross sales within the 24 weeks to 1 March 2025 to £4.5bn. Adjusted working revenue elevated 8% yr on yr to £540m.
