A longtime Starbucks (SBUX) executive is retiring as CEO Brian Niccol tries to turn around the flagging coffee chain. On Monday, Starbucks North America CEO Michael Conway, 58, announced plans to retire.

When Mr Niccol takes over as chief executive of Starbucks on September 9th life will become a lot less simple. His new office in Seattle will be 1,000 miles from his home. He will commute by private jet. He won’t make the trip every day. But when he does, it will be a six-hour round trip.

Starbucks ( SBUX) new CEO Brian Niccol is brewing up a new chapter for the coffee chain as it focuses on its origins.

Starbucks officially has a new CEO, with Brian Niccol taking over the top job Monday. Here are challenges he is facing that have hampered Starbucks' sales and stock price in recent months.

In a new memo, Niccol offers a clinical deconstruction of what’s going wrong at the coffee chain—and hints as to how he plans to make it right.

Michael Conway will be retiring at the end of November, according to a Monday filing. His position won’t be filled.

Michael Conway, Starbucks’s North American chief executive, plans to retire Nov. 30 after only about eight months in the role. Conway informed the coffee chain of his decision on Thursday, according to a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The new role will oversee product, marketing, digital, customer insights, creative and store concepts.