Head of Capital and Investments

Co-op; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading co-operative in Manchester seeks a Head of Capital and Investments to guide its investment strategies and governance. The role involves collaborating with senior leadership, developing business cases, and driving long-term value growth. A competitive salary and benefits package, including a company car or allowance, are offered.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Annual bonus

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

10% pension contributions

Access to subsidised onsite gym

Coaching and training for career development

Discount on Co-op products

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior finance role.
• Expertise in complex investment evaluation.
• Experience in developing and leading colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead investment governance and business case development.
• Drive strategic capital planning and reporting.
• Lead decision-making forums with executives for investment choices.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Problem-solving

Job description

Head of Capital and Investments
£90,000 to £100,000 plus great benefits, including up to 10% employer pension contribution, private healthcare, and £6,000 car allowance (Work Level 4)
Manchester City Centre (Hybrid)

We're open to applications from people who may require flexible working arrangements. There’ll be an opportunity to discuss your flexible working requirements during the interview process, and at offer stage.

We’re looking for a Head of Capital and Investments to lead our Capital & Investments (C&I) team in Manchester. In this role, you’ll engage with colleagues across Co-op and make sure that we’re investing wisely and understanding how our spending performs. It’s really important that we put effective long-term investment plans in place, and you’ll play a key role in influencing these.

As our Head of Capital and Investments, you will take the lead in shaping, evaluating and managing the Co-ops investment portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and delivering sustainable growth with long term value. You will act as a key business partner to the Executive and senior leadership team as well as across our finance leadership community. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – splitting your time between home and the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at https://jobs.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

What you’ll do

• Lead the end to end investment governance; from business case development through to post-investment review
• Provide key expertise and guidance across Co-op to ensure robust and consistent business case modelling, including training across finance and business
• Drive strategic capital planning and reporting across Co-op, including rolling forecasts, budgets, and strategic longer-term planning
• Lead decision-making forums with our executives across portfolio investment to help drive solid investment choices that align with our strategy
• Identify and explore opportunities to improve our investment and post-investment appraisal process
• Partner executive and senior leaders through end to end investment cycle
• Work with strategy, deployment and business teams to help prioritise projects and spending in line with our strategy and growth plans
• Lead our high performing C&I team, supporting colleagues career development
• Provide support for ad-hoc and project-related requests from our Board, CFO, and CEO

This role would suit people who have

• Proven experience in a senior finance role, with experience in influencing and challenging people, of all levels of seniority, inclusively
• Expertise in evaluating complex investment opportunities, business partnering and a solid understanding of business case methodology and investment appraisal techniques
• Experience developing colleagues and supporting them in their career development
• Experience leading a multi-functional group of colleagues to drive planning and investment decision-making improvements
• Strong commercial acumen, strategic thinking and communication skills
• The ability to proactively identify and explore continuous improvement opportunities
• Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills, with the ability to connect with people at all levels of seniority

Why Co-op?

If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:

• Private healthcare
• A company car or £6,000 car allowance
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• 24/7 access to a range of emotional, financial, and practical support services for you and your family

Building an inclusive work environment

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build more value for our member-owners every day.

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme at Disability Confident Scheme - Co-op Colleagues and more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion here

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.