Marks & Spencer has relaunched its career programme to help school leavers and graduates learn how to become retail “leaders” after a year’s hiatus.
The FTSE 100 retailer said it had “reshaped and simplified” its management trainee schemes for next year to focus on the store experience for customers. It has three programmes based on retail leadership, food and clothing and home.
M&S said Stuart Machin, its chief executive, had taken a “personal interest” in the schemes. He drew on his own experience — he started on the shop floor — to ensure the programmes “equipped talent with the skills they need to lead an M&S store of the future”.
