James was beforehand group provide chain director at Boohoo Group, a place he has held since 2019.
Previous to Boohoo, he led the availability chain perform at Primark from 2014 to 2019 and labored in senior logistics roles at Sainsbury’s, Matalan and Asda.
James will begin his new function at M&S on 2 June, succeeding Kevin Bennett, who will take up his beforehand introduced function as logistics director of M&S meals and CEO of Gist, the retailer’s meals logistics service.
In the meantime, Cramond, advertising and marketing director at M&S meals since 2018, will transition to the identical function within the vogue, residence and wonder division on 2 June.
Cramond will mix her learnings at M&S along with her earlier advertising and marketing expertise together with at Tesco and Goal to drive the retailer’s high quality and worth perceptions in clothes, residence and wonder.
She is going to retain her cross-business tasks of masterbrand advertising and marketing and the Sparks loyalty programme. A recruitment course of is underway for advertising and marketing director of meals.
The hires got here after the retailer appointed former Boohoo Group CEO John Lyttle as its new managing director of clothes, residence and wonder in February, succeeding Richard Value.
Womenswear director Maddy Evans took a broader function to incorporate lingerie in her remit and have become director of M&S Girl.
David Brittain, former enterprise growth director of Amazon Trend, joined M&S as director of residence and wonder on the finish of April.
