Doug Watson CBCI

Experience

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  British Army

  Dec 2001 - Aug 2010

  - Lead coordinator for an organisation of 2500 personnel to meet a strategic intent focused on preparation for operations. Used weekly coordination meetings to address all functional area demands to ensure that all tasks were completed prior to deployment.- Ensured that critical objectives were met inside demanding deadlines with limited resources to support the executive output. Achieved all goals set. - Managed a budget of £10M and forecasted and resourced future budgets out to 5 years. Show less - Mid-level manager with the responsibility for the coordination of an organisation of 140 personnel. - Managed a budget of £5M including equipment and maintained operational output through the management of a vehicle fleet at reach from the supply chain. Produced innovative supply solutions to maintain operational outputs.- Worked to meet the intent of the organisation both in the UK and also on operations in Afghanistan providing innovative solutions.- Responsibility for the management of 8-47 personnel. Played an active role in the development of their training and led on their career development. - Operations Manager for an 800 person organisation on operations. Led on Planning for 1st elections in SE Iraq in 2005 which elected a government.- Was selected as an instructor at our basic training school, where I implemented training direction by devising innovative training events that engendered a desire to learn and produced well motivated teams.- Actively mentored junior personnel to prepare them for the requirements of the organisation they had joined to motivate and educate them.- Royal Military Academy Sandhurst – Junior leadership and management course. Show less

  • Operations Manager and Resources Manager

    Oct 2008 - Aug 2010

  • Platoon Commander and Company 2IC with 1st Bn The Highlanders and 4 SCOTS

    Dec 2001 - Oct 2008
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  Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S)

  Aug 2010 - Jun 2011

  Business Manager and Project Manager

  - Implemented a £26M technical project to support a critical threat to UK service personnel on operations. Acted as the military professional on the project and devised and implemented the training of the equipment on operations. Implemented the project on time and on budget.- Chief of Staff for an organisation of 1200 military and civilian staff working directly to the Chief Executive and the Senior Management Team objectives. Ran regular workshops and update briefs to ensure that all career reports were completed on time. - Completed studies for Bachelor of Arts whilst in full time employment and overseas. Show less

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  Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

  Jan 2012 - Aug 2012

  Intermediate Command and Staff Course (Land)

  Post-Graduate level studies focused upon Command, Leadership and Management. Modules focused upon acquisition and technology, project management, operational planning, international relations and risk analysis.

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  British Army

  Aug 2012 - Feb 2017

  Leadership and Management. A proven leader with many years of experience across a range of functional areas including operations, human resources and technology. Have acted as an Operational Planning Team Chief of Staff and coordinated a number of teams to meet Senior Management Team objectives. Encouraged initiative amongst the team to ensure junior team members development. Communication. A strong communicator both written and orally who has developed and managed teams ranging from 8 to 199 personnel. Have ensured that where necessary delegation is conducted but maintained control of overarching intent to ensure that outputs are met. Have used negotiation skills to progress projects and opportunities with individuals ranging from colleagues to foreign nationals. Operational Planning. Over 20 years of experience of planning and executing projects and programmes that have met the objectives set by senior, executive and Government level. Have provided critical analysis to understand fully the operating environment and ensured that attention to detail was maintained in trying and difficult circumstances. Have identified areas for improvement in projects and programmes and implemented solutions to increase output.Financial Planning. Have managed resource and program budgets up to £26M. Through detailed understanding of the projects and ensuring that all executive objectives were met provided financial planning forecasts out to 5 years. Show less - Identified improvements in programmes that increased operational output by 100%, through critical analysis, planning, managing of risk and implementation on time.- Focused upon meeting the required outputs of the executive board including the deployment and development of the training plan for 90 personnel on operations in Afghanistan. - Was the Chief of Operations for a 1000 man multi-national organisation focused upon providing security in Kabul. Led the incident response at Silver level to several security incidents including Vehicle Borne Suicide attacks and other complex attacks across Kabul. - Managed an organisation of between 87-199 personnel to meet operational outputs in high threat environments with limited resources. Through detailed understanding of the problem and then applied different templates based upon the current situation in an agile manner. Ensured that tasks were distributed evenly across the organisation to maintain positive team morale and enthusiasm, ensuring high levels of productivity.- Managed the HR and professional development for the organisation through staff workshops and leadership seminars to improve the long term outputs of the organisation.- Liaison with a number of stakeholders ranging from International Government Departments, Multi National Corporations and the Royal Household. Show less - Led the planning and conduct of operations across the globe. Operated at the strategic level and produced successful results in line with HM Governments objectives. Provided briefings and briefing products to support Executive Managers brief at Ministerial and Cabinet Level.- Liaised with Other Government Departments to support operational outputs to ensure efficiencies across the project through regular conferences and formal team meetings.- Led the Planning Team for specialist responses to crisis operations across the globe that concluded successfully.- Acted as a Programme Manager to provide assurance to training programmes supporting an organisation of 4500 personnel on operations. Show less

  • Commissioned Officer

    Sept 2000 - Feb 2017

  • Company Commander/ Senior Manager

    Apr 2014 - Oct 2016

  • Strategic Planner and Operational Manager

    Aug 2012 - May 2014
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  BlackRock

  Apr 2017 - Jun 2021

  Led Brexit planning for BlackRock Technology and Business Operations department and focussed on the delivery of the Portfolio Management Contingency plans in the event of a Hard Brexit and possible relocation of personnel. Conducted extensive critical analysis of the stakeholder processes, requirements and delivered a detailed implementation plan, meeting the requirements of the customer ensuring legal and compliance constraints. Pitched solutions and plans at Executive level to deliver on strategic change.Project Manager for the delivery of a 24Bn EUR fund for a European client. Extensive client engagement to meet the needs of the client and subsequent relationship management to deliver on time. Displaying sensitivity to the client’s need but ensuring that any dependencies that rest with the client are met on time.Successfully delivered the change of Clearing Agent for BlackRock. The project focussed on defining the scope, leading a team of SMEs not normally involved in project work, delivered the technology requirements, understanding the legal and commercial aspects of the project, a procurement process and identifying ad-hoc solutions when required to deal with unforeseen problems.Responsible for the EMEA Change Management teams Business Resilience Plan and incident management. As the first Veteran intern at BlackRock in Edinburgh, jointly set up the Edinburgh Veteran Network at BlackRock. The network has been running for 4 years and has grown to over 100 employees, both veterans and non-veterans. Gained MD level support for the network that has assisted in the network providing over £40,000 of charitable donations to local military charities. Led the recruitment and expanded the internship programme to 13 veterans over 4 years. Show less

  • Vice President - Change Management

    Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

  • Change Management - Associate

    May 2018 - Jan 2021

  • Project Manager

    Apr 2017 - May 2018
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  British Army

  Dec 2017 - Oct 2021

  Review of HR Business Processes for a portion of the Army Reserve to ensure that the policy matched the actual process that had been defined. Identified areas where amendments were required and produced documentation to support HR personnel in their duties. Deputy Commander of an organisation of 450 personnel.Responsible for the delivery of training plans and assurance of the training to meet the needs of the Army against a variety of operational outputs.Supported the delivery of the resilience planning for COVID-19.Mentor and coach to subordinates to assist them in their personal development.

  • SO1 APC CM Policy

    Oct 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Battalion Second in Command

    Dec 2017 - Oct 2020
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  Metsa Ltd

  Jun 2021 - Jan 2022

  Director

  Delivery of tender bids to secure projects and subsequent operational and logistical planning to deliver projects.Establish business processes and the necessary governance to ensure that the organisation remained compliant across Health and Safety, Human Resources, Employment contracts and risk management. Act as the Crisis Manager for any incidents on site relating to Care for People, Family Liaison and lead the incident response. Client engagement to ensure that queries were responded to in an efficient manner and provided weekly project updates to the client. Show less

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  British Army

  Dec 2021 - now

  Leadership and management of a dispersed organisation of +250 people. Plan and deliver operations on behalf of the Executive.Act as the Military Liaison Officer for multi-agency Regional Resilience Partnerships and Local Resilience Partnerships.

  • Commanding Officer 7 SCOTS

    Apr 2022 - now

  • SO1 Engagement - Projects

    Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
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  Inverroy Crisis Management Ltd

  Feb 2022 - now

  Senior Consultant

  Senior Consultant responsible for the delivery of crisis response, business continuity and security solutions for clients globally across a range of sectors.Currently Crisis and Continuity Advisor for bp’s Mauritania and Senegal project. Responsible for the delivery of Regional Business Continuity Management Plan, Emergency Response Plans and Incident Management training.