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Carine EkouléCE

Carine Ekoulé

Business Strategy Consulting

€800/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Carine

Strategy & Business Transformation Consultant | Resilience – Growth – Impact

In an unstable economic context and with exacerbated competition, companies need strategic clarity, commercial agility, and concrete levers for resilience.

🎯 This is where I come in:
I support SMEs, mid-cap companies, and industrial groups in structuring their development, transforming their sales organization, and activating sustainable growth drivers.

🧩 My approach combines strategic vision, field action, and rapid results (quick wins).

Areas of intervention:

Strategic diagnosis & transformation roadmap

Offer redesign & market repositioning

Sales structuring & export development

Resilience strategy: value creation, adaptation, ROI arbitration

Reorganization & change management (culture, tools, teams)

✅ Over 20 years of experience in the B2B industry, including 10 internationally (Europe & Africa):

+€1.2M in margin generated through a pricing strategy in Europe

+30% profitability on a structured industrial transfer

Distribution network structured in sub-Saharan Africa

New commercial dynamic post-strategic diagnosis

🛠️ My added value: the ability to clarify, structure, engage, and deliver.
I offer solutions with measurable impact, tailored to your growth or transformation challenges.

📍 Based in Paris – Missions in France & internationally (in-person or hybrid)
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 30km)

Experience

  • IMORAN
    Business Strategy Consultant - Transition Manager
    January 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)
    Conducting strategic, social, and financial diagnostics in transformation or repositioning contexts
    Facilitating workshops for cultural reaffirmation and building operational action plans
    Identifying growth drivers and supporting business diversification
    Organizational redesign and support for adopting a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous improvement
    Sales structuring for SMEs/mid-cap companies:
    ° Sales performance diagnosis, definition of multi-account strategies
    ° Support for implementing steering and coordination tools (KPIs, CRM, account plans)
    ° Facilitating steering committees and supporting internal teams
    Results achieved: improved internal coherence, launch of new activities, increased customer satisfaction performance
  • SANOFI
    International Customer Service
    June 2000 - December 2001 (1 year and 6 months)
    Paris, France
    Areas: Russia - Ukraine - South Africa Customer Service
    • Provide support to the sales force by operating sales follow-up, managing relationships with plants to meet demand.
    • Support for the accounting adjustment project through a self-developed reconciliation tool.
  • SOLVAY
    Business Development - Distribution Manager - North Africa and Southern Europe
    February 2002 - December 2021 (19 years and 10 months)
    Paris, France
    SOLVAY 2017 - Present Distribution and Sales Management
    • Management of customers and distributors in France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal
    • Establishing pricing policy to ensure sales growth and profitability
    • Opportunities won in 2020: 450T
    • Pipeline opportunities represent 15% business growth.
    • Establishing key value drivers to evaluate distributor performance SOLVAY 2016 - Present Foreign Markets Development
    • Leading market development in North Africa, onboarding new customers
    • Coordination of homologation projects
    • Starting new sales
    • Designing a specific development strategy for Africa. SOLVAY 2011 - 2015 Sales Development
    • Successfully led projects with internal stakeholders: Production transfer to increase profits, to reduce lead time. Direct impact on volume growth from 30T/year to 600T/year in 2 years
    • QUICK-WIN projects led on specific ranges. Businesses restarted after being lost for 10 years: +500T business SOLVAY 2002 - 2010 Market Support
    • Pricing management
    • Costs analysis and correction. Main achievement: Currency error identified, significant impact on contribution margin

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Education

  • Executive MBA, Strategy
    IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School
    2022
    Executive MBA, Stratégie
  • Global Executive MBA, Strategy - Business Management
    IFG Executive Education
    2022
    Global Executive MBA , Stratégie- Management d'entreprise

Certifications

  • Leadership
    IFG
    2022
    Implementing Change Management Team Development Organizing Projects Executive Coaching Leading and Uniting a Team

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