Head of Strategic Partnerships - POS Finance in London

Joining the Sainsbury's team as the Head of Strategic Partnerships for POS Finance offers a unique opportunity to drive transformation and growth within the Financial Services division, playing a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of the business. With a focus on developing and scaling key partnerships, influencing stakeholders, and leading a high-performing team, you will have the chance to make a significant impact on the credit business, driving it towards profitability and operational excellence.

This role provides a platform for forward-thinking leaders to showcase their strategic acumen, financial management skills, and ability to navigate complex environments, all while contributing to the success of one of the UK's leading retail organisations.

What you'll do

• You will be accountable for leading the transformation of credit from a cost to a profit driver, particularly focusing on the Argos Pay product in partnership with New Day and Argos.
• Your role will involve building and nurturing strong relationships with credit providers in the Argos ecosystem, such as Klarna and Paypal, to drive results through effective management and close business collaboration.
• You will be responsible for developing and executing strategies that elevate the credit business to best-in-class levels of penetration and P & L contribution, influencing stakeholders both internally and externally to achieve these objectives.
• You will have ownership of the P & L for the Credit product, driving financial outcomes and storytelling with data to present findings and insights to key stakeholders.

Who you are

You're a visionary leader with a proven track record of driving transformation and delivering strategic outcomes in the field of POS finance, specifically within the retail environment. Your exceptional leadership skills, coupled with your ability to build and scale strategic partnerships, enable you to drive profitable growth and positively influence stakeholders both internally and externally. With a strong understanding of financial services and retail market dynamics, you excel in making data-driven decisions, managing P & Ls, and fostering a high-performing culture that empowers colleagues to achieve their full potential.

Essential Skills

• Evidence of building and maintaining external strategic partnerships that deliver commercial growth, with the ability to operate with autonomy and accountability.
• Proven commercial ownership experience, including responsibility for, or significant influence over, P&L, profitability and revenue growth within a retail or customer-led environment.
• Experience working with retail credit products, customer finance, POS finance and/or regulated financial services.
• Strong data-led decision making, with the ability to translate insight into clear actions, recommendations, and commercial outcomes.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders, leading teams and delivering through cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working.

When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

• Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year.
• We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover.
• You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares).
• Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare.
• We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
• You'll also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000 business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car.
• And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
• Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).