Finance Director - Nutrition Online in Manchester

About THG

We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition. Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition. From Manchester to New York, we’re powered by a team of over 2,500 people who work together, lead by example, and think BIG. With us, you’ll go further, faster.

Location: Icon 1, WA15 0AF

About Finance at THG

THG Finance is a dynamic and evolving team that covers all areas of finance, including central functions such as accounts receivable and payable, treasury, tax, and internal audit, as well as specific commercial teams for each of our divisions; Beauty, Tech, Consumer, Health, and Brands. As we expand our business and take on new challenges in the form of acquired businesses or new ventures, finance is there to support every step of the way, leading to dynamic and challenging roles. Common characteristics among our team members are the ability to drive change, adaptability, and resourcefulness to ensure we can keep pace with the business, without compromising on financial control or sales performance.

About THG Nutrition

THG Nutrition is home to some of the best loved and most trusted names in wellbeing and nutrition, including Myprotein, the world’s largest online sports nutrition brand, and its family of brands, Myvegan, Myvitamins and MP Activewear. Our brands and people exist to break boundaries; to power and empower those who want more. We break conventions, we’re a force for good, and we keep it real. These are the values that drive our team through every day. With everything from manufacturing and new product development to content creation, marketing and logistics delivered in-house, THG Nutrition is perfectly positioned to consistently deliver rapid growth in a fast-moving, global industry.

About the Role

The Finance Director for Nutrition Online is a critical member of the THG Nutrition Leadership Team and a strategic partner to the Divisional CEO. Leading a team of c.25 finance professionals across Commercial Finance, Shared Services (AP, CC & AR), and Financial Control/Management Accounts, the Finance Director is responsible for ensuring robust financial stewardship and enabling the division’s growth and profitability ambitions. This role requires a blend of commercial acumen, strategic insight and exceptional financial leadership. The Finance Director will own the full P&L and Balance Sheet, provide high quality challenge and guidance to drive business performance, and lead a range of divisional and group wide strategic initiatives. The Nutrition Finance function operates across both commercial and financial reporting structures at THG, offering a unique opportunity to partner across the division to drive trading performance, support innovation and growth, and deliver strong financial control and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Reporting into the Commercial CFO, the role is split into the below key areas:

• Financial Control & Reporting
  • Full ownership of divisional month end close processes across all Nutrition brands, including Myprotein.
  • Build and lead the Nutrition consolidation and group reporting process following business separation.
  • Ensure rigorous balance sheet governance, accuracy, and control across all teams.
• Commercial Finance & Performance Management
  • Lead commercial insights and analysis, challenging all aspects of the P&L to drive profitability.
  • Deliver profit improvement and working capital initiatives across the division.
  • Oversee budgeting and forecasting, providing both in month insight and rolling 12 month projections to support strategic decision‑making.
• Strategic Leadership & Business Partnering
  • Support major strategic programmes including international expansion, organisational transformation, and business separation.
  • Partner across all areas of the business‑including supply chain, trading, and marketing‑to ensure investments drive sustainable, profitable growth.
  • Work collaboratively with group finance functions such as Tax, Treasury, and Group Reporting to ensure seamless alignment and compliance.
• Team Leadership & Operations Excellence
  • Lead, motivate, and develop a multi‑disciplinary finance team of up to 25 colleagues.
  • Oversee day to day finance operations, ensuring an efficient, well controlled, and high performing finance function.
  • Drive a proactive, solutions‑led approach to identifying risks and opportunities across the short, medium, and long term.

Additional Focus (within these areas the role will require)

• An inspirational leader, who thrives on being able to drive and work with an ambitious team to achieve goals aligned to the business’ need.
• A proactive approach to P&L performance, acting quickly on both risks and opportunities identified in both the short, medium and long term.
• A confident mindset, comfortable in dealing with a wide range of non‑financial key stakeholders and managing difficult conversations.
• Comfortable to challenge and review spend approvals to ensure all costs deliver incremental benefit to the business.
• A strong attention to detail to ensure a tightly controlled balance sheet is delivered consistently, reviewing the wider team’s work.
• A keen ability to multi‑task across a number of areas and manage both their own and the team’s time effectively.
• An ability to communicate with wider finance functions outside of the division, including Group, Tax, Treasury etc, to ensure all relevant information is provided and received for reporting purposes.
• A collaborative approach to working with the wider divisional finance team including commercial, to assist with reporting and profit delivery, and SC C, to ensure a tightly controlled working capital cycle.

Requirements

Essential

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with significant senior finance leadership experience in a complex, international organisation.
• Proven end to end ownership of P&L and Balance Sheet, with strong expertise in financial control, reporting consolidation, and compliance.
• Demonstrated track record in commercial finance, including profit improvement, cost management, working capital optimisation, budgeting and forecasting.
• A credible and influential strategic partner, confident in challenging and guiding non‑financial stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience supporting major strategic initiatives such as international expansion, transformation programmes, or business separations.
• Strong people leader with experience managing and developing large, multi‑disciplinary finance teams.
• Exceptional attention to detail combined with the ability to operate strategically across a broad agenda.
• Excellent communicator capable of operating effectively across divisional and group finance environments.

Desirable

• Experience in consumer goods, nutrition, health & wellness, or FMCG sectors.
• Exposure to international business models.
• A good understanding of ecommerce.
• Track record of driving finance transformation, systems optimisation, and process improvements.

What’s in it for me?

Career Development

• Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in‑house L&D team.
• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry‑leading training provider.

Enhanced Leave

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us!
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
• Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
• Buy back up to 3 days each year.
• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12‑months.

Wellbeing Support

• Access face‑to‑face and virtual appointments with our in‑house GP.
• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.
• State‑of‑the‑art on‑site gym.
• Access to our on‑site physio.

Other Perks

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
• On‑site staff shop.
• Access to on‑site barber.
• Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1,000 when they pass their probation.
• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.

THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability. THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven’t heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.