Ben Varey

• Results: Delivered annual savings and cost avoidance of €7M (3%) during a period of significant market disruption (OEM semi-conductor and Covid) and inflation

• Strategy: Implementation of a global fleet transformation strategy to provide a framework to reduce costs, vehicle size and specification while delivering a roadmap of Co2 savings to ensure alignment with corporate ESG targets and objectives

• Organization / People: Cross-functional leadership and change management to support roll-out electric vehicles, vehicle right-sizing and telematics in key strategic markets

• Process: Program digitization to leverage telematics and other data to support operational efficiency, Co2 reduction, safety as well as providing a platform for more strategic decision making

• Major Initiative: Vehicle resizing and transition to hybrid vehicles in North America with savings of €2M and a Co2 reduction of 4%. This initiative challenged the status quo and changed many years of practice of using large, costly, and highly polluting vehicles

Advanced from Associate Director, Global Fleet to Associate Director Global Travel and Fleet to Director, Global Fleet Management World's largest elevator and escalator provider – products used by more than 2 billion people every day. 70K employees, fleet size 22K and category spend of €210M

• Results: Continuous program improvement delivering annual savings of €4M (4%)

• Strategy: Supplier rationalization and consolidation. Migration to single key OEM for all markets delivering annual cost savings of €4.4M in addition to productivity gains

• Organization / People: Cross-functional team from across top 10 markets established to drive compliance, take-up of best practices and alignment of key leasing and OEM suppliers

• Process: Introduced total cost of ownership metrics to ensure a more accurate reflection of cost evolution and to optimize vehicle/term selection and Co2

• Major Initiative: Supplier alignment with single lease company across more than 20 markets delivering an aligned strategic approach and savings of €2.3M

Worlds largest testing standards and verification company. 100K employees, fleet size of 13,5K fleet category spend of €110M

• Results: Annual savings of €5M (8%) in hotel spend from strategic sourcing, program consolidation and significant reduction in the number of hotels

• Strategy: Implemented a "lowest logical hotel" program in key cities to drive larger volumes of business into single properties in key volume cities. This also delivered additional benefits for travelers such as discounts on food and beverage, free hi-speed wi-fi (a big win at that time) and additional amenities

• Organization / People: Created and leveraged a cross-functional global hotel council (HR, Security, Finance, Business Continuity, and key business groups) to support program objectives and delivery of tangible financial benefits

• Process: Introduced collaborative hotel sourcing process using an internally developed hotel database thereby streamlining the RFP process and ensuring better global alignment and compliance

• Major Initiative: Implementation of a Corporate Housing programme to put travelers staying more than 5 nights into a corporate apartment rather than a hotel – delivered annual savings of €2.5M (5% of hotel spend)

Global investment bank with 67K employees and a global category spend of €200M and €80M (EMEA)