How she shines: Michele shines through her leadership, innovation, sustainability, and teamwork. She builds trusted relationships with customers and partners while helping bring innovative hygiene solutions to market. Michele champions sustainable practices and technologies that solve real-world challenges, improve efficiency, and enhance the customer experience.
Years in the industry: 9 years
Job responsibilities: Michele Wood serves as a key leader within Sofidel’s Away-From-Home and professional hygiene business, where she manages and develops strategic customer and distributor relationships across the cleaning and hygiene industry. Her role goes beyond traditional sales—she works directly with customers to understand their operational challenges and connect them with innovative, high-performing, and sustainable tissue and hygiene solutions.
Michele is actively involved in customer education, industry events, distributor partnerships, product launches, and market development for Papernet and Sofidel. She regularly brings innovative solutions to customers, helping facilities address challenges such as restroom performance, plumbing issues, product efficiency, sustainability, and cost savings.
She also serves as an advocate for innovation and sustainability within the professional cleaning industry. Through her customer relationships, industry presence, and thought leadership, Michele helps demonstrate how smarter product choices can improve facility performance while supporting environmental goals.
At the heart of her role is building strong, long-term partnerships and helping customers find practical solutions that make their operations cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable.