Dan Howells, the ERA Waste and Sustainability Specialist

Dan Howells' ERA franchise spotlight is a concise five-year-in specialist introduction. Dan is a waste specialist within the Expense Reduction Analysts network, with a background covering multiple waste-management companies and a sustainability consultancy in the City of London before joining ERA. He is a chartered waste manager and a member of IEMA - the professional body for sustainability practitioners - which gives the credentialing weight a corporate procurement team expects when bringing in an external waste-and-sustainability specialist. What Dan does inside the ERA network is help businesses become more sustainable while reducing cost - long-term sustainable changes to the way an organisation handles waste rather than one-off cost-cutting exercises that don't last. He frames the work with characteristic understatement: the team often laughs about him being the 'bin man' and looking in waste, but the actual job is the analytical work of identifying where waste comes from and how it can be prevented at source. The dual-bottom-line value Dan delivers - environmental outcome plus cost reduction - is increasingly central to mid-market and enterprise clients facing both ESG reporting requirements and procurement-spend pressure. ERA's expert-routing network model means that when another partner has a client with a waste category in scope, Dan can be brought into the project as the specialist deepens the team without the lead partner needing to learn the category from scratch. Watch Dan's spotlight for an authentic specialist-partner perspective on what an ERA practice can look like when a partner anchors their book on a single high-impact category, and how the brand's joint-venture culture lets a specialist plug into engagements led by partners across the global ERA network.