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Richard Trace

Captain · DISC type DS
Head of Strategic Planning at Frasers Group
📍 Adlington, England, United Kingdom

Richard is the Head of Strategic Planning at Frasers Group, leveraging an extensive background in data and analytics from his eight-year tenure at Marks and Spencer. His colleagues describe him as focused, results-oriented, and innovative. He holds a BA from the University of Humberside and has experience in logistics and supply chain management.

Outside of his professional life, Richard has a strong passion for travel and sports, particularly cricket. He once took a career break to travel extensively, which included a trip to Australia specifically to watch the Ashes series.

He took a four-month break from his career to travel as a "Digital Nomad" and follow the English cricket team in Australia.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Head of Strategic Planning
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Adlington, England, United Kingdom
Personality Overview

How Richard shows up

Decisive But Calm
Dynamic But Sincere
Long-Term Thinker

Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them. They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time. They are very professional in their approach and can weigh multiple perspectives together.

Priorities

Topics Richard cares about

Strategic Planning
As the current Head of Strategic Planning at Frasers Group, this is his core professional focus.
Data-Driven Retail
Spent over eight years in data, reporting, and analytics leadership roles at retail giant Marks and Spencer.
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Career

Work history

10-2022
Head of Strategic Planning
Frasers Group
10-2020 - 10-2022
Data, Reporting & Analytics Lead
Marks and Spencer
2-2017 - 9-2020
Insight & Analytics Manager
Marks and Spencer
3-2014 - 2-2017
Operations Manager
Marks and Spencer
11-2013 - 3-2014
Digital Nomad
Travel
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Media appearances

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Education
1995 - 1999
BA
University of Humberside
Education details unavailable
Shebbear College
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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