Job Description
Contract: Permanent
Location: Nottingham Support Office
Closing Date: 9th July 2026
Ready for your next move in digital commerce finance leadership?
If you’re a commercially driven finance professional with a track record of influencing decision-making and delivering digital retail results, we’d love to hear from you.
What you’ll be doing
As the Head of Finance for Digital Retail, you will be a strategic partner to our e-commerce senior leadership team, reporting directly to the Finance Director. You will lead a team of Finance Managers and collaborate closely with our Digital Trading, Planning, Product and Operations teams. Your role will involve:
- Driving digital performance to support delivery of online revenue and profitability targets while advising on key e-commerce initiatives.
- Taking full ownership of the end-to-end P&L for our digital division, ensuring complete financial visibility and robust commercial governance.
- Optimising the digital bottom-line profit by identifying margin opportunities, managing cost structures, and enhancing commercial returns.
- Building and nurturing strong relationships with Digital Directors and Omnichannel leaders to align financial strategies with online business objectives.
- Providing insightful analysis on digital commercial performance that informs strategic decision-making and enhances platform performance.
- Ensuring accountability by holding digital function leaders to their commercial commitments and fostering a culture of transparency and trust.
- Leading with credibility, inspiring a collaborative, high-performance culture that drives digital results and innovation.
What you’ll need to have (our must-haves)
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
- Previous experience as a Head of Finance with a strong focus on e-commerce, digital marketplace, or multi-channel retail environments.
- Proven track record of owning an end-to-end P&L and managing cross-functional commercial initiatives to protect and grow bottom-line profit.
- Demonstrated success in collaborating with senior cross-functional digital leaders to drive business performance.
- Strong margin analysis and investment appraisal experience, with the ability to optimise digital promotional/marketing spend and support logistical fulfilment efficiency.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and challenge at executive levels, ensuring sound commercial judgment in a fast-moving retail market.
It would be great if you also have
- Experience in leading finance transformation programmes that enhance commercial insight and data automation.
- Familiarity with digital retail and reporting systems (e.g. Google Analytics, Power BI, SAP, TM1).
- A strategic mindset with the ability to shape long-term digital business plans based on online market trends and consumer performance patterns.
Rewards designed for you
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan (up to 12% company contribution)
- Generous employee discounts for you and a family member
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
A bit about us
At Boots, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported, and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we’re committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.
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