Ruth Melches is a Partner at Strategy& Germany, based in the Berlin office. She co-leads the European sustainability team and is a member of the retail and consumer, as well as the organization strategy and transformation practices.

She supports clients with end-to-end transformations, focusing on sustainable business strategies, business model reinvention, and achieving net-zero goals. Additionally, Ruth leads large-scale organizational transformations, concentrating on optimizing structures and costs, enhancing future capabilities, and developing strategies for Shared Service Centers and outsourcing.

Ruth joined Strategy& in 2018 and has gained further consulting experience at two leading international consultancies prior to that. She has authored and co-authored several Strategy& and PwC publications on sustainability and the future of retail.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg (Germany), as well as from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE, UK), and a Master of Finance from ESADE Business School in Barcelona (Spain).

Expertise

• Steering sustainability-led transformations within the retail and consumer goods sectors towards new business models, ensuring future profitability and operational effectiveness
• Defining and implementing sustainability strategies and transformations in a cost-effective manner as part of a differentiating market strategy
• Driving organizational transformations, including organization design, cost optimization, restructuring, as well as change management and communications