All articles by Tony Gregg – Page 4
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OpinionOpinion: Coronavirus will force retailers to rewrite rules of recruitment
It is inevitable that the coronavirus outbreak will cause significant disruption both to business and to our everyday lives.
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OpinionMove of the Week: JLP's Ed Connolly faces new challenge at Dixons Carphone
When Ed Connolly joins Dixons Carphone from John Lewis Partnership in May he will trade one retail transformation project for another.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Poulter will need all her nous to revive Laura Ashley
It says much about the scale of the crisis facing Laura Ashley that, less than two months after joining the business, Katharine Poulter’s accession to the role of chief executive has been fast-tracked.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Kavan's first CEO job is perfect match
It’s a measure of the revolution taking place in retail that a senior Amazon executive like Ajay Kavan has chosen Matchesfashion for his first chief executive role.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Bhatia is the kind of disruptive thinker JLP needs
John Lewis Partnership’s latest executive hire will be a new name to many. Nina Bhatia will join on February 17 as executive director, strategy and commercial development, following a career spent largely in consultancy and the energy sector.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Ted Baker hires first chief customer officer
Hot on the heels of Mothercare’s announcement that boss Mark Newton-Jones is to move into a non-executive role this summer comes the news that Jennifer Roebuck is taking the reverse journey at Ted Baker, from non-executive director to the main leadership team.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Strong and adaptable Milford to head up M&S retail
Marks & Spencer has been busy in the executive jobs market of late as it looks to move ahead with its transformation programme, but its latest hire may ultimately prove to be the most significant of all.
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OpinionMove of the Week: The Works have natural successor for Keaney
It’s that time of year in the jobs market when retailers that encountered difficult trading at Christmas reflect on what went wrong and what they could do better.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Retail leaders must step up in brutal market
Happy New Year! Retail, as we know, never sleeps but for those of us that took some time out over the Christmas period to rest and reflect, the fast start to the new year has forced us to wake quickly from our festive slumber.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Unconventional times require bold leaders
It’s been another eventful year in the retail jobs market. Ongoing turbulence on the high street has led to a raft of business closures or restructures that in turn has meant a fluid movement of senior executives in and out of some of the country’s most high-profile retailers.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Morrisons promotions reward turnaround duo
David Potts has done an outstanding job in reviving the fortunes of Morrisons after the supermarket lost its way during the Dalton Phillips era.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Asos’ ‘ferociously intelligent’ chief growth officer
Asos’ decision to hire its first chief growth officer has sparked debate about what the job entails and why the business needs one now.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Dixons Carphone’s new faces have digital know-how in their DNA
Alex Baldock has cast the recruitment net beyond the retail sector as he continues his digital transformation of Dixons Carphone.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Shop Direct CFO can mark start of new era
Ben Fletcher would be well advised to make the most of his Christmas break. When Shop Direct’s new group chief financial officer joins in January he faces being thrust into a business still suffering the effects of a PPI-induced financial shock that has escalated to the point where it pushed 2018/19 profits significantly into the red.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Why counteroffers aren’t all they seem
It will understandably have come as a great source of frustration for Marks & Spencer that its new stores director David Lepley has had a last-minute change of heart and opted to stay at Morrisons.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Ted Baker hopes for American dream
Ted Baker continues to move on from the Ray Kelvin era with the news this week it has appointed its first-ever US chief executive.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Is Kingfisher’s new CFO a jack of all trades?
When your boardroom has as many empty chairs as it has full, it makes sense to hire people with a good breadth of skills.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Radical changes at the top of JLP
In any other week, the news that the boss of Britain’s largest retailer is to leave his post would headline any people news bulletin. But in a remarkable few days that also saw Argos’ John Rogers join Dave Lewis in announcing his (more imminent) departure, the restructure announced by John Lewis Partnership has to take top billing.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Amazon swoops for property high-flyer
I’ve commented before on how Amazon tends to keep its recruitment close to its chest and this week it has emerged that former Sainsbury’s director of commercial operations Matt Birch has been working with the company since May in a director role with a focus on scoping out sites for physical stores, according to The Times.
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OpinionMove of the Week: M&S’ ex-Clubcard hires may well boost loyalty
Marks & Spencer is following a tried-and-tested formula, as it looks to unlock the value of its customer data.