Louise Meny-Gibert

Used the opportunity that a relocation to Hamburg, from South Africa, presented to move back into the Consulting space with a focus on Media Management and Strategy and to apply my practical industry experience to part-time teaching in the academic discipline of corporate and business unit strategy within the Broad Media industry.

Head of a magazine division of Media24 – a multi-platform media organization • Responsible for overall profit and loss of the division • Led a 100+ strong team, across commercial and content functions, with +15 senior reports • Tasked with – Setting of annual budgets and driving new business models New product innovation, to diversify revenue streams Driving efficiencies in legacy business, through improved cost management Change management to ensure critical skills retention and diversification

Senior Consultant in the Strategy and Innovation Division of Monitor Deloitte, South Africa. Primarily focused on delivering growth strategies for private and public-sector entities, across industry and across EMEA. Projects included: the delivery of a customer, product and channel growth strategy for an African insurer; the development of a divisional strategic plan for the Malawian Dept of Industry and Trade; and design of a strategy implementation plan for a global technology consulting company.

Divisional manager in the company’s agency and distribution business, representing British and American book publishers exclusively in Southern Africa. Tasked with setting and achieving sales budgets and forecasts; setting of product pricing and margin management; managing international distributor relationships; liaising with retail and wholesale customers and suppliers; developing and rolling out marketing and publicity campaigns; managing sales representatives to achieve company objectives.

Responsible for instituting and managing the company's direct book sales and marketing arrangements with key accounts in Central and Southern Europe, including (but not limited to) Amazon.de and Amazon.fr, and Libri Gmbh.

Responsible for instituting and managing the company’s direct sales and marketing arrangements with key accounts in Central and Southern Europe.

Corporate and Business Unit Strategy; Country and Company Competitiveness. Master’s Thesis: "The development and evolution of core competencies in a successful enterprise, in a competitive industry.” The research sought to understand the basis for sustained company success.