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About the Role
Lead the finance partnership for the M&S Brands business, shaping strategy for Partner Brands, Sports, Wholesale, Consignment, Dropship and future growth propositions. Provide commercial leadership and financial challenge to senior stakeholders while driving transformation to evolve Brands into a scaled, profitable and strategically differentiated growth platform for M&S.
Responsibilities
- Lead the financial strategy, planning, budgeting and forecasting for the M&S Brands business, ensuring sustainable sales, profit and cash growth.
- Partner with the Director of Brands, Head of Brand Partnerships and wider leadership team to shape investment decisions, growth opportunities and long-term commercial strategy.
- Drive the financial evaluation of new propositions, partnerships, acquisitions, category expansion and customer growth initiatives.
- Lead business cases, profitability improvement programmes and strategic transformation initiatives, including operating model evolution and process simplification.
- Provide robust commercial challenge across Buying, Merchandising, Planning, Marketing, Supply Chain, Online and Finance teams while ensuring strong governance, controls and risk management.
Requirements
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or Equivalent)
- A commercially focused finance leader with experience partnering senior stakeholders in a complex retail, consumer or commercial environment.
- Strong strategic and analytical capability, with a track record of turning ambitious growth plans into commercially robust outcomes.
- Experience leading investment appraisals, business cases and transformation programmes that deliver measurable business value.
- Strong financial governance, planning and performance management expertise, combined with a passion for driving growth and continuous improvement.
Work Type
- Hybrid
Education Level
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or Equivalent)
Benefits
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you
About the Company
- M&S Brands is one of the exciting growth opportunities across Fashion, Home & Beauty and Online.
- Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day.
- We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
- We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet.
- Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
- We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
Equal Opportunity
- If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.