School staff
Professor Jim Saker BSc, Wales; MSc, Manchester; PGCE, Leicester
Associate Dean (Enterprise)
Head of Retailing and Marketing Group
Director - Centre for Automotive Management
Ford Professor in Retail Management
Professor Jim Saker is the Director of the Centre for Automotive Management and is the Ford Industrial Chair of Retail Management, and he has a close working relationship with the automotive sector.
He has been involved with the automotive industry for 20 years and was a co-founder of the MIRA Business Unit in 1992. In 2004, 2005 and 2006 he was placed in the Automotive Industry Power 100, a listing of the top most influential people in the sector, and he is a member of the UK Government’s Leadership and Management Panel.
His research interests lie in the area of channel power relationships and strategic developments in the motor industry.

