Peter Line retires after 40 years at M&S; Jayne Wall to spearhead Retail Operations as new Director
After an incredible 40 years with M&S, Peter Line has decided it’s time to retire from a full time leadership role.
Peter will be leaving Retail Operations and taking on a role at Woolworths in South Africa, acting as the Relationship Manager between Woolies and M&S, later this summer.
Following Peter’s retirement, M&S is annoucing that Jayne Wall will be joining Retail Ops as Director of Central Store Operations in August. Jayne joins from Morrisons where she has held a variety of roles, with a big focus on transformation, including the design and roll out of format and range localisation, sustaining and elevating the Market Street offer and service, as well as taking a leading role in the business response to the pandemic. For the last three years Jayne has been looking after 250 stores across England, Scotland, Wales and Gibraltar.
Sacha Berendji, Operations Director at M&S, said: “We’re delighted to have Jayne joining us and she comes at an exciting time for M&S as we go faster on our plan to bring our bigger, better and brighter stores to more customers. At the heart of our strategy to Reshape M&S, brilliant stores are how we offer our customers the best experience however and wherever they choose to shop with us, and Jayne’s experience and new ideas around great service, in store execution and developing talent, will be a great addition to the team. We also wish Peter the absolute best in his new role after an incredible 40 years with M&S and look forward to working with him in his new role at Woolworths in South Africa, continuing the long running relationship between our two businesses.”
Jayne Wall commented: “I am very proud to be joining M&S, the UK’s most trusted brand and can see the great progress the team have made under Stuart’s leadership. I am looking forward to being part of that high performing team and bringing all my stores experience to support the business’ ambitious growth plans. I’m particularly excited about bringing my passion for developing frontline talent to this amazing brand and supporting M&S to be the best place in town to work and shop.”
