Senior Finance Business Partner - Supply Chain & Sourcing

We’re Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego.

Shape the work behind some of the world’s most loved sport, outdoor and lifestyle brands.

At Pentland Brands, every role helps move our brands forward. Whether you’re supporting our people, improving our systems, growing our commercial performance, strengthening operations or shaping better ways of working, your impact reaches across a portfolio of iconic brands used by consumers around the world.

The Supply Chain & Sourcing Senior Finance Business Partner acts as the strategic financial partner to Pentland supply chain and sourcing leadership, including senior Operations and Sourcing stakeholders. Your mission is to shift Finance from a passive reporter of supply chain outcomes to an active driver of better ones. You will bring rigour to inventory management, transparency to cost structures, and credibility to the data that underpins global sourcing and operational decisions. In doing so, you will help establish Finance as a trusted voice that senior operational leaders proactively turn to.

What you’ll be doing:

Inventory Management & Action-Driving Insight

• Embed finance-led inventory insights that proactively identify high priority lines and drive coordinated commercial and operational action.

• Work with Merchandise Planners and commercial teams to establish a regular rhythm of actionable stock reviews, with a focus on improving overall stock health across Pentland.

• Understand fabric liabilities and develop clear analysis of the actions available to drive profitable outcomes.

Inventory Integrity & Master Data Quality

• Improve inventory and cost data integrity by proactively identifying and correcting master data and process exceptions, resetting Finance’s role from being accountable for errors to holding other functions to account for their own data quality.

• Enhance the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of master data across the supply chain by collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and refine reporting tools.

• Lead the creation of new integrity checks and continuously improve reporting processes to ensure high-quality, trusted data underpins all supply chain decision-making.

Supply Chain & Sourcing Cost Management

• Strengthen supply chain and sourcing cost control through improved reporting on key cost areas, with early identification of risks and opportunities across the P&L.

• Support the delivery of a regular cost-to-serve view covering actuals, forecast, and budget across warehouse and fulfilment operations, including global consolidated views for senior leadership.

• Develop clear benchmarking of 3PL vs. in-house costs to support strategic decision-making, partnering with the SVP Global Supply Chain to evaluate changes to the operating model through robust financial analysis.

• Provide people cost reporting for the COO, including clear analysis of functional cost variances and improvements to the forecasting process by embedding budget holders directly into it.

• Own the preparation, consolidation, and submission of supply chain functional and margin budgets and forecasts, ensuring accuracy and clear accountability.

Sourcing Finance

• Partner with the SVP Global Sourcing and Supply Planning to drive structural improvements in product manufacturing options, with clear benchmarking of different manufacturer costs, volumes, quality, and speed.

• Deliver clear FOB changes reporting for the SVP Global Sourcing, ensuring visibility of cost movements and their impact on margin.

• Roll out consistent global product performance reporting and spend tracking to drive accountability among regional and functional stakeholders.

• Develop and distribute an executive-level consolidated global file, ensuring clear visibility of product costs, forecast accuracy, and budget stewardship, and lead the coordination of product forecasting and annual budget submissions.

Team Leadership & Development

• Line manage at least one team member, providing clear direction, regular feedback, and development support to build a capable and motivated supply chain finance function.

• Foster a culture of high standards, intellectual curiosity, and continuous improvement within the team, driving quality in analysis and output.

• Work collaboratively across Finance, including with EMEA Commercial Finance peers and Central FP&A, to ensure consistency in approaches, definitions, and planning inputs.

What you’ll bring:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with 5+ years of post-qualification experience.

• Proven experience in supply chain finance, operations finance or FP&A within a product-led, consumer or retail business.

• Strong understanding of inventory management, cost-to-serve analysis and sourcing cost structures.

• Confidence working with large, complex data sets and a track record of improving data quality, reporting tools and master data processes.

• Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to influence senior operational and sourcing leaders and hold teams accountable for data quality and outcomes.

• Experience of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis in an operational or supply chain context.

• People management experience and genuine commitment to developing others and building team capability.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced global matrix environment across functions and geographies.

Why Pentland Brands?

Pentland Brands is the name behind some of the world’s best-known sport, outdoor and lifestyle brands, including Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury, Endura, Ellesse, Kickers and Mitre.

We are a global family business with a clear purpose: pioneering brands that make life better. Across our teams, functions and locations, we work together to create products, experiences and partnerships that help people live more active, confident and positive lives.

Joining Pentland Brands means becoming part of a business where your work can have real reach, across multiple brands, markets, teams and disciplines. It is a place for people who want to contribute, collaborate, improve how things are done and help build the future of brands with heritage, ambition and global impact.

Perks & Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, discretionary bonus, hybrid working, flexible start and finish times, generous holiday allowance, product discounts, sample sales, enhanced family-friendly policies, healthcare support, gym and fitness discounts, cycle to work scheme and electric car scheme.

You can find full details of our benefits and perks on our UK Benefits page .

The Interview Process

We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:

1. Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.

2. Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.

3. Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.

‘“This vacancy is a newly created role as part of organisational changes. Final appointment will depend upon the outcome of consultation processes and affected employees will have priority for consideration.”