Morrisons promotes Nick Collard to group marketing and customer director role
Morrisons has promoted Nick Collard to the position of group marketing and customer director.
The supermarket will appoint Collard to the management board in June with responsibility for marketing, own brand ranges, insight, loyalty, customer relationship management and format. Casper Meijer will lead the other commercial functions within Morrisons as group trading director.
In a further promotion, Belinda Youngs will become corporate brand marketing director reporting to Collard.
Dalton Philips, chief executive, commented: “Nick’s doing a great job in taking our marketing forward and now has the opportunity to lead one team integrating our own brand and customer engagement. The recent announcement of our partnership with Ant and Dec is a great sign of how Nick’s team can showcase the talent of Morrisons colleagues and the value they offer our customers.”
Never Miss a Retail Update!Collard joined Morrisons in January 2011 as commercial director for ambient and frozen from Boots, where he was brands director. He was appointed marketing and operations director in April 2012.
