Starbucks\u00a0announced another stage in its leadership shake-up on Tuesday, as\u00a0CEO Brian Niccol\u00a0will bring in two more executives who spent time at his former employer Taco Bell while dividing key leadership roles.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we focus on our \u2018Back to Starbucks\u2019 plan, we need a new operating model for our retail team, with clear ownership and accountability and an appropriate scope for each role,\u201d Niccol said in\u00a0a letter to employees\u00a0shared on the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Before spending six years at Chipotle, Niccol served as CEO of\u00a0Yum Brands\u2019\u00a0Taco Bell. Since starting at Starbucks in September, he has already poached some of his former colleagues to help with his transformation of the coffee giant. For example, he tapped\u00a0Chipotle\u00a0and Yum Brands alum Tressie Lieberman as Starbucks\u2019 global chief brand officer in the fall.<\/p>\n
The newest changes to the Starbucks organization include splitting the role of North American president into two jobs. The company\u2019s current North American president, Sara Trilling, will depart the company. Trilling has been with Starbucks since 2002.<\/p>\n
Starting in February, Meredith Sandland will hold the role of chief store development officer. Sandland is currently CEO of Empower Delivery, a restaurant software company. Previously, she served as chief operating officer of Kitchen United and as Taco Bell\u2019s chief development officer.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Mike Grams will join the company in February as North America chief stores officer.\u00a0Grams has been with Taco Bell for more than 30 years, starting as a restaurant general manager and working his way up to become the chain\u2019s global chief operating officer, according to his LinkedIn.<\/p>\n
Both Sandland and Grams will be tasked with implementing Niccol\u2019s vision to go \u201cback to Starbucks.\u201d The strategy includes decreasing service times to four minutes per order, making its stores more welcoming and cozy, as well as slashing the menu.<\/p>\n
Arthur Valdez, Starbucks\u2019 chief supply officer, also plans to leave the company. He joined in 2023 after seven years at Target. Starbucks has already identified his replacement and will share that news in the coming weeks, Niccol said in the letter.<\/p>\n
Starbucks is expected to\u00a0report its fiscal first-quarter earnings\u00a0after the bell on Tuesday. Wall Street is expecting the company\u2019s same-store sales to fall for the fourth consecutive quarter as consumers in the U.S. and China opt to get their caffeine fix elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Starbucks\u00a0announced another stage in its leadership shake-up on Tuesday, as\u00a0CEO Brian Niccol\u00a0will bring in two more executives who spent time at his former employer Taco Bell while dividing key leadership roles. \u201cAs we focus on our \u2018Back to Starbucks\u2019 plan, we need a new operating model for our retail team, with clear ownership and accountability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}