Jonathan Beeby has recently been appointed as the new Managing Director for SAP Concur Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). In his latest role, the experienced enterprise sales leader promises to further drive innovation and growth in the region.
The German tech giant’s 2021 second-quarter financial report revealed promising signs for the comeback of business travel with its Intelligent Spend Division — which houses SAP Concur, along with the SAP Fieldglass workforce management system and SAP Ariba procurement platform — showing quarter-over-quarter revenue stability for the first time since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic last year. In a statement, SAP said that it had seen:
“The first signs of recovery in travel and expense management with the easing of global travel restrictions, which led to SAP Concur stabilising its sequential performance for the first time since the pandemic began.”
The leading brand for integrated travel, expense, and invoice management solutions currently has about 46,000 customers in over 150 countries, including more than 75{8bf2b29f36318f0ac46ab1cc03d7035abce669a1cea16c9ed62389a818fa22fd} of Fortune 100 and 500 companies, and over 71 million end-users who book travel and manage expenses. As part of a series of recent internal promotions in SAP’s expense management Software as a Service (SaaS) subsidiary, Jonathan Beeby has been appointed as the new Managing Director for the ANZ region.
Following his previous position as Regional Sales Director, which he held for more than three years, Beeby will now be responsible for driving the company’s growth and supporting ANZ’s economic recovery from the pandemic by working closely with both public and private sector organisations. Acknowledging that many large and small enterprises have had a difficult time over the last few years, he noted:
“I look forward to working with businesses to help them find new ways to use IT automation to drive innovation and growth. We continue to refine SAP Concur’s travel, expense, and invoice management solutions to meet the current need for organisations to achieve greater cost and operational efficiency gains and to help businesses digitally transform and adapt to the new business landscape.”
Jonathan Beeby Named as the New MD for SAP Concur Australia and New Zealand
Beeby started as a Regional Enterprise Sales Executive with SAP Concur in 2014 and has progressed through several sales positions since then. Before entering SAP’s travel, expense, and invoice management solutions subsidiary, he served as a Business Development Manager for Melbourne’s Markinson Business Solutions and as a Managing Director for UK-based software company Onsite Marketing Solutions. Additionally, he also worked as a helicopter pilot and instructor for a year.
Further commenting on his latest appointment, Beeby emphasised that SAP Concur collaborates with businesses and government agencies to figure out the best way to handle evolving challenges like employee travel, expenses, and supplier invoices. He explained:
“By necessity, organisations have become more agile and are now better able to respond to changing economic conditions. However, they need the right tools that provide both real-time visibility across the organisation and let the business quickly shift when the market takes a sharp turn.”
“As we enter a new digitally-led era, I am looking forward to helping Australian and New Zealand organisations find even greater opportunities for innovation and sustainable business growth,” he maintained.
Moreover, SAP Concur has also promoted Charlie Sultan to Chief Operating Officer and SVP of Strategic Planning. Formerly taking on the role of SVP for Global Content, Market, and Supplier Strategy, he assisted the team in forging New Distribution Capability (NDC) pathways through Travel Services Select configurations and a partnership with Travelfusion in 2019. The first two airlines to distribute NDC content through those configurations were British Airways and Lufthansa Group. United Airlines followed suit in April this year.
