Manhattan Associates has announced the appointment of Craig Summers to the position of Managing Director.

Mr Summers will lead and manage a range of Manhattan’s UK business, including sales, professional services and customer services operations. He will be responsible for driving business growth and helping customers with their investments using Manhattan’s solutions and services.

Manhattan’s senior vice president, Henri Seroux, said: “We look forward to leveraging Craig’s knowledge of the increasingly digital retail market and his deep understanding of how companies purchase and leverage technology.”

Mr Summers joins Manhattan from Oracle where he was most recently a senior director for Customer Experience.

Mr Summers said: “I am thrilled to join such a strong leadership team and a company that is not only evolving its existing solutions, but is also transforming customers’ organisations across the globe. I look forward to working with the Manhattan team and its business partners to help grow the company and take its customers to the next level.”