Challenge: Peter Ruis (pictured) will become John Lewis’s executive director next week
John Lewis Partnership has brought Peter Ruis back to lead its department store business.
The ex-Jigsaw boss will become executive director from the start of next week. He returns to John Lewis, having held several roles there between 2005 and 2013.
He has since run Jigsaw, been managing director at Anthropologie and, most recently, chief of Canadian book and lifestyle retailer Indigo.
Ruis will take over from Naomi Simcock, who took on the interim job in February last year after the departure of previous boss Pippa Wicks, who stepped down amid reports of a culture clash at the top of the firm.
Simcock will now move to be the operations director.
Ruis will help drive a turnaround after John Lewis posted another loss in the first half of the latest financial year.
