Challenge: Peter Ruis (pictured) will turn into John Lewis’s government director subsequent week
John Lewis Partnership has introduced Peter Ruis again to guide its division retailer enterprise.
The ex-Jigsaw boss will turn into government director from the beginning of subsequent week. He returns to John Lewis, having held a number of roles there between 2005 and 2013.
He has since run Jigsaw, been managing director at Anthropologie and, most lately, chief of Canadian ebook and way of life retailer Indigo.
Ruis will take over from Naomi Simcock, who took on the interim job in February final yr after the departure of earlier boss Pippa Wicks, who stepped down amid reviews of a tradition conflict on the high of the agency.
Simcock will now transfer to be the operations director.
Ruis will assist drive a turnaround after John Lewis posted one other loss within the first half of the most recent monetary yr.