Bauer Media's Debbie Floyde says detail is the key to her success

The role of fleet manager can encompass many facades. Mobility, facilities, insurance, transport,  travel, logistics: increasingly the job title is fleet and “insert other responsibility here” manager.

Such is the case with Debbie Floyde, the 2022 inductee into the Fleet Hall of Fame. Group fleet manager at Fleet News parent company Bauer Media for the past 25 years, Floyde took on responsibility for commercial insurance procurement and risk management in 2008 and added facilities and group travel to the mix six years ago.

It was already a diverse fleet role, incorporating conventional company vehicles, outside broadcast trucks for radio and street team cars, plus the press cars, vans and motorcycles used by journalists for evaluation.

Now, as group fleet, risk and facilities manager, she says her expanding curriculum vitae ought to include another skill: “expert ball juggler”. She adds:

“There are never two days the same – there aren’t even two hours the same.”

As if that wasn’t enough to fill her days, she is also a director at the Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP), an organisation with which she has been closely involved for the past two decades.

So how does she juggle so many responsibilities?