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Richard Gillies
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Richard Gillies, Director of Plan A, Marks & Spencer
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Richard Gillies, Director of Plan A, Marks & Spencer
Prior to this role Richard was Director of the Store Design, Development & Procurement team, where he was responsible for the procurement of goods not for re-sale.
Richard has been with M&S for 22 years.
His early career was in Retail, where he progressed through Store Management in Marks & Spencer stores in Belfast, Edinburgh and Toronto, Canada.
He also spent time as Area Controller for the South of England and in the Central Store Operations team at Head Office.
Subsequently, Richard became Senior Manager in Human Resources, where he was responsible for managing a major corporate restructure, as well as heading the People Development Team.
He spent 2 years as Head of Change and Programme Management, becoming the Assistant to the CEO in 2001.
Richard followed this role with a period as Executive Retail Operations for Clothing and Home and more latterly the programme for the Design and Development of our New Store Formats.
Richard is a member of the Criticaleye Advisory Board.