Ms Coombes is in the building industry retail sector with a commercial, customer and operational focus. Jacquis management career includes several senior leadership roles with Bunnings which employs over 52,000 team members across more than 500 locations throughout New Zealand and Australia, including, most recently, as Director for Group Human Resources and New Zealand. Prior to that, Jacqui led Bunnings New Zealand for 10 years, across 53 locations with more than 4,000 team members Jacqui was also an Executive Director of Bunnings Group from 2017- 2021 and Bunnings NZ from 2011 - 2021. Prior to joining Bunnings, Jacqui was General Manager Operations for Spotlight Stores with overall responsibility for New Zealand, and for Retail operations in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Her other senior executive roles have been with a range of large New Zealand and international businesses including Noel Leeming, Bond and Bond, PixiFoto, Woolworths, Aldi and Texaco. Jacqui is a non-executive director of ASX-listed Guzman Y Gomez Limited, which operates over 220 restaurants in Australia, Singapore, Japan and the United States.
