Boots UK
Head of Finance - Digital Retail
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Head of Finance (Digital Retail) – Permanent
Location: Nottingham Support Office Recruitment Partner: samantha.bramhall@boots.co.uk
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.
About the Role
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 involves:
- Driving digital performance to support the 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 the 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 to inform strategic decision-making and enhance platform performance.
- Ensuring accountability by holding digital function leaders to their commercial commitments while fostering a culture of transparency and trust.
- Leading with credibility, inspiring a collaborative, high-performance culture that drives digital results and innovation.
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What You’ll Need
- 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.
- Support logistical fulfilment efficiency.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and challenge at executive levels while ensuring sound commercial judgment in a fast-moving retail market.
Preferred
- 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, enabling you to shape long-term digital business plans based on online market trends and consumer performance patterns.
Why Join Boots?
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- Continuous learning opportunities and career development routes leading to senior leadership positions within our global organisation.
Rewards & Benefits
- 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.
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About Boots
At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating an environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel included, they thrive.
Our commitment is to fostering a brilliant Boots—one where our employees can make a lasting difference for our customers and colleagues.
What’s Next?
- If you apply, our team will be in touch to share the outcome of your application or arrange next steps.
- Where the role is full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options.
- If you require additional support during the application and interview process, please let us know—we will make reasonable adjustments to ensure you’re at your best.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider suitable applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.
We hope to hear from you soon—Be brilliant with Boots.
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