Gillies 'hopeful' of Rangers head coach appointment before season start
Former England international Jo Potter departed Rangers four weeks ago after winning four cup trophies in two years at the club.
"It has been going really well," Gillies told RangersTV.
"The quality of the candidate has been excellent, really strong.
"Probably a mark of the time that we have taken actually to get to the point that we are at right now.
"I think for us it is about finding the right qualities in all those excellent candidates and resumes that we received and applying them from the context that we have.
"We are in the final stages of that process and will be able to confirm what we are going to do, hopefully in the next couple of weeks if not sooner.
"It has been a great process and it has really said a huge amount about where we are at as a women's club and really the strides that the women's game has made in Scotland that we are attracting some really highly qualified and impressive people."
Rangers will take part in their first pre-season friendly next week and kick off their SWPL campaign on 17 August against Montrose.
Gillies is hopeful of having a decision made by that point, but he will not rush the process.
"Have someone in place for first pre-season game? Yes, that would be the hope but we are not held to it," he added.
"That shouldn't go beyond the priority of making sure we get the right person."
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