As Global Head of Travel and Expense and a tenured global travel professional, Alison is accountable for the execution and management of the processes which underpin the Barclays global travel and expense policy, including operational service delivery, sourcing and supplier management, data analytics and the global employee expense and corporate card and virtual card programs as well as the management of cross border compliance and immigration management for short term business travel.
On the Procurement Leadership team, Alison’s remit has expanded in recent years to include the delivery of the payment strategy for the function, which includes creating consistent payment control & governance at scale, providing a frictionless experience and removing manual touch points where possible for colleagues, internal operations and external vendors and the provision and visibility of actionable analytics to support strategic decisions which lead to commercial gains