Debenhams has started a consultation period with support centre staff which could result in around 60 redundancies.
It is understood the roles are focused in back-office and central support teams. Debenhams has decided to minimise recruitment of new positions and focus on business-critical roles.
There are currently around 1200 support centre staff members.
The job cuts are thought to be part of the beleaguered retailer’s ongoing cost-cutting drive amid its wider turnaround scheme, which includes reorganising its business units into a new operating model, tightening its leadership team, and cutting back on non-core activities to concentrate on the core business.
The support centre job cuts are separate from the thousands of potential job cuts already announced in October last year when Debenhams unveiled plans to close 50 under-performing stores out of its 165-strong portfolio in the next three to five years.
The embattled department store announced the store closures amid its preliminary results, which included a historic £491.50 million statutory loss for the full-year.
