As Vice President Internal Communications, Events & Sponsoring, Elisabeth Hesse is responsible for all internal communications activities, events as well as the sponsoring activities of METRO AG, headquartered in Düsseldorf.
Elisabeth Hesse has been working for METRO AG since February 2008: First as Corporate Communications Manager for METRO Cash & Carry International and from 2010 to 2014 as Head of PR & Marketing for METRO GROUP. In November 2014, she assumed her current position and reports to the Senior Vice President Corporate Communications of METRO AG.
Elisabeth Hesse brings more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of corporate communications and demonstrates strong strategic and operational skills in Internal Communications, Change Communications, Event Management, Internal Social Networks, Public Relations and Sponsoring. She began her professional career at the PR agency Weber Shandwick in Hamburg and in London and then worked as an International PR Consultant at the communications consultancy Pleon (now Ketchum) in Düsseldorf.
Elisabeth Hesse studied German and English in Osnabrück, London and Hamburg, graduating with an M.A. degree. She is married, has a son and lives in Düsseldorf.
At METRO, the Internal Communications team has the space and the management’s attention and trust to help drive employee engagement and to develop and implement ideas to inform, inspire and encourage employees to actively shape our new business strategy and cultural change. In internal communications, I love the proximity to your target groups and direct feedback from our own ranks and the power internal communications can ignite. I've been in the job a long time but I love the changes that new content, stakeholders, formats and technologies bring.
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