Head of Finance – Pharmacy Business Partner

Head of Finance – Pharmacy Business Partner

Permanent

Nottingham

Recruitment Partner:
Vyoma Gandhi

We're looking for you to join the Boots UK Finance team as Head of Finance Pharmacy, as part of the Pharmacy Business partnering team. This is an exciting opportunity to join our pharmacy finance team, supporting the strategy of the pharmacy business. We are looking for a Head of finance to improve performance to deliver financial targets, deliver and advise on commercial programmes and bring insight to the role.

You will support our Pharmacy team, reporting to the Finance Director of Healthcare, and will work with our FP&A and Financial Control teams. You will have direct relationships with the Business Directors, including Boots online Doctor, Life sciences and Pharmacy Growth. You will lead a team of three Finance Managers.

Performance management:

• Interpret trends, identify drivers of performance, and translate data into meaningful business insight.

• Performance leadership
  , partnering business directors (Pharmacy leadership team) and their teams with understanding their performance.

• Holding Pharmacy leaders to their financial commitments across in‑year performance, budget cycles, and 3YP planning.

Influence & Leadership

• Shape decisions at senior levels and challenge assumptions to ensure commercial judgement.

• Build trusted relationships across Pharmacy leadership, and wider business teams to align and land complex financial strategies.

• Experience communicating analytical findings for a range of different audiences who can distill complex financial issues into applicable insight for non‑finance partners.

Insight-Led Strategic Decision-making

• Shape long-term plans across Pharmacy Growth, Boots Online Doctor, and Life Sciences based on evidence, market understanding, and performance trends.

• Operate with a future‑focused mindset, ensuring that it grounds recommendations in insight and contributes directly to growth and improved performance.

Commercial Control & Governance

• Commercial governance mindset
  , ensuring rigorous financial control, accuracy, and agreement on business-wide valuation and reporting methodologies.

• Providing challenge and oversight on business cases, investment proposals, and programme decisions to safeguard financial performance.

Resilience & Change Leadership

• Resilience and composure in a fast‑paced environment while managing multiple priorities.

• Promote and ensure change
  , identifying improvement opportunities and leading teams through transformation Experience preparing memos that translate financial analysis into relevant insights, energy, and commitment.

Leadership & Team Development

• Inspire high performance
  , leading a team of Finance Managers, coaching, and a collaborative approach.

• Promote continuous improvement
  , promoting best practice across planning, and financial decision‑making processes.

• Build finance culture
  , encouraging challenge, accountability and business partnering behaviours.

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)
• Previous Head of finance experience, with team leadership, including developing, and motivating the wider team.
• Engagement in the wider finance functional, Leading finance transformation programmes. Building a culture of accountability, continuous improvement.
• Experience partnering with senior cross‑functional leaders (e.g., Operations, Commercial, Supply Chain, Digital).
• Cash and working capital management experience, with the ability to increase cash flow and support operational efficiency.
• Capex governance and control capability, ensuring evaluation, approval, and tracking of investment programmes.
• End‑to‑end P&L ownership experience, partnering with business leaders to lead financial performance, influence decision‑making, and embed commercial accountability.
• Experience shaping and influencing long‑term business strategy.
• Ability to challenge constructively, the decisions, and guide accountability at executive level.
• Leading planning cycles (Budget, 3YP, quarterly forecasts) in large, complex environments.
• Understanding of reporting/ERP systems (e.g., SAP, BW, TM1, or Power BI).