Marc Metrick
Former Chief Executive, Saks Global Operating Group
The former Saks Global chief executive spent 30 years driving the companies strategy to reinvent the luxury shopping experience.
Marc J. Metrick the former chief executive at Saks Global Operating Group. The executive has over 3 decades worth of experience, and has also held senior leadership positions at Saks Fifth Avenue and Hudson's Bay Company. At Saks Global, Metrick oversaw its retail and consumer businesses, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks OFF 5TH. He led the largest multi-brand luxury retailer in the world, driving its strategy to reinvent the luxury shopping experience so that each customer's experience is unmistakably their own.
Metrick studied Business Administration and Management at Boston University, and joined Saks’s executive training programme in 1995 before spending over 15 years in senior leadership roles at Saks and eventually becoming its chief strategy officer. In April 2012, he joined Hudson’s Bay Company as its chief marketing officer and executive vice president, overseeing marketing and digital commerce for Hudson’s Bay and Lord & Taylor. In November 2013, Metrick was appointed chief administrative officer of Hudson’s Bay Company, playing a key role in the company’s $2.9 billion acquisition of Saks in 2013. Two years later in 2015, he was promoted to the president of Saks Fifth Avenue, replacing Marigay McKee . In March 2021, Metrick was promoted to chief executive of Saks and stepped down in January 2026.
In March 2021, the company finalised the separation of Saks Fifth Avenue stores from its digital business, which led to a $500 million investment from Insight Partners and a valuation of the e-commerce company totalling $2 billion. This move allowed both organisations - stores and e-commerce - to appropriately invest in their respective experiences while maintaining an exclusive partnership to deliver a seamless experience for customers.
Metrick was formerly a member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors of the National Retail Federation, and he is currently on the advisory board of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Centre at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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