{"id":90397,"date":"1999-12-31T00:42:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/breaking-news-senior-director-quits-dick-smith-after-just-14-months\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:42:00","slug":"breaking-news-senior-director-quits-dick-smith-after-just-14-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/breaking-news-senior-director-quits-dick-smith-after-just-14-months\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Senior Director Quits Dick Smith After Just 14 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shock move, Rod Orrock the Director of Buying and Marketing at Dick Smith has quit 14 months after leaving a senior role at Harvey Norman to take a role at the mass CE retailer.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;\">Orrock, who was tipped to take on the CEO role at Dick Smith will leave the Company on September 15th according to a leaked email from CEO Nick Aboud to senior Dick Smith management.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Aboud claims that Orrock is leaving due to &#8220;Health Concerns&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Orrick joined Dick Smith on June 20th 2014.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Mark Scott has now been appointed to lead the buying team at Dick Smith he will also continue in his role as Director of Operations.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">In his email Aboud said that he will personally be working closely with Mark and the buying team to &#8220;ensure that we continue to operate effectively&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">During his time at Dick Smith Orrack has been responsible for the opening of 25 new Dick Smith stores, a move into appliances as well as the setting up of a Dick Smith store at Sydney International airport.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shock move, Rod Orrock the Director of Buying and Marketing at Dick Smith has quit 14 months after leaving a senior role at Harvey Norman to take a role at the mass CE retailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-human-resources","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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