Bryan Downes

Biography

A Senior Business Manager with +25 years’ experience across the oil and gas, mining, power generation, renewable energy and civil infrastructure sectors within Australia, SE Asia and Europe. A strategic leader specialising in the organisational development and tactical management of a wide array of functional business areas including engineering, strategy, risk, quality, supply chain, Information systems, marketing, communications, EHS and HR. Takes a practical approach to business management systems, combining extensive project, operational and contract management expertise to analyse and solve risks and opportunities, enhancing certainty of positive project and operational outcomes with a focus on cost, time, quality and effective Client delivery. Key Performance Areas: ☛ Developing large organisational structures & managing high performing teams, fostering collaborative cultures that enable individual and collective growth, utilising in place staff & leaving legacies of positive development ☛ Operationalising plans, procedures, schedules & agreements, as well as enterprise strategy development, delivering OPEX/CAPEX budgets & leading business improvement projects that produce lucrative ROI ☛ Building business-beneficial relationships & affable senior level alliances with Government Bodies, Regulators, Clients, Contractors & Suppliers, as well as excellent negotiation, influencing & reporting skills ☛ Senior management & governance of $multi-million project engineering portfolios encompassing concept, design, planning, development, procurement, logistics, construction & commissioning ☛ Appraisal & project investment analysis, development, negotiation, review & management of commercial contracts, as well as financial analysis, forecasting, performance measures & metrics ☛ Business analysis, streamlining systems, identifying and mitigating risk, creating strategy to maximise business performance, quality management & ensuring regulatory compliance. 

Research Interest

Business Management