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Sabine Mielek

Questioner · DISC type c
Managing Director DE/ NL at The Body Shop
📍 Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Sabine Mielek is the Managing Director for The Body Shop in Germany and the Netherlands, drawing on an extensive career in senior HR leadership at companies like WW (formerly Weight Watchers) and GE. As an ICF-certified Business Coach, she specializes in team leadership, organizational change, and strategic human resources management.

She is a proponent of empathetic leadership, believing it is the foundation for empowering teams and fostering key competencies. Sabine actively follows insights from leading business publications and firms, including Harvard Business Review and Korn Ferry, showing a keen interest in management and retail industry trends.

Sabine recently steered The Body Shops German and Dutch operations through a complex insolvency and subsequent acquisition, saving dozens of stores.

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Experience
33 Years
Current Role
Managing Director DE/ NL
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Personality Overview

How Sabine shows up

Value Seeker
Price-Sensitive
Not Easily Convinced

While they don't hesitate to ask questions, they are generally risk-averse and tend to be late adopters. They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point. It is quite likely of them to ask for pricing or other concessions.

Priorities

Topics Sabine cares about

Retail Turnarounds
She has direct, recent experience leading The Body Shop through a difficult insolvency period to a successful acquisition, preserving numerous stores and jobs.
Empathetic Leadership
She publicly stated that core competencies are developed when leaders act with "empathy and a mindset of empowerment. "
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Managing Director DE/ NL
The Body Shop
2018 - 8-2024
VP People International
WW (formerly Weight Watchers)
3-2006 - 8-2018
Director Human Resources
WW (formerly Weight Watchers)
2002 - 2006
HR Manager Europe
GE Commercial Distribution Finance
8-1990 - 6-2000
HR Generalist, Leadership Trainee Programs
Citibank
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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