Tom Binns

Principal HR advisor to CEO. Manage personnel administration, welfare and discipline of an organisation 600+. Regular stakeholder engagement. Organisational lead for career management. Coach and mentor to fellow colleagues. Resolved complex employee issues through objective investigations. Utilising an intrinsic knowledge of policy. Sole manager of operational record keeping and lead for organisational learning. Manage operations room supporting 700+ field operatives, with multi disciplined team.

Commanded a specialist team (30 staff) responsible for collection and analysis of data. Led team through training and operational standby in UK and Afghanistan. Lead project manager of incident response policy in Kabul. Led and managed research, development, implementation. Improving efficiency of National security forces. Liaised and worked extensively with NATO nations. Briefed and delivered security to officials and senior British and coalition staff. Coach and mentor to junior management.

Led team of five staff in the planning and delivery of training to over 120 new staff over 12 month period. Trained validated and subsequently assessed staff through syllabus of training; retained over 95% from start to finish. Ensured those that completed training met the output standard of 80%. Designed and delivered warfare doctrine and tactics training to recruits; achieving a 95% pass rate. Career Manager, coach and mentor to five staff throughout this period.

Led team of 30 staff through training and periods of high readiness on exercise in Cyprus, UK, Germany and Afghanistan. Planned and implemented team training as part of annual cycle. Responsible for welfare, appraisals, career management and training of staff. Resulting in continued mission success of British forces in the wider Middle East. Managed readiness of team to deploy globally at short notice. Led, orchestrated and managed security of critical strategic infrastructure in Cyprus.

Senior organisational representative accountable for the management of assets across multiple stakeholders. Regular liaison with stakeholders regarding past and future actions of multinational forces. Fostered multinational working relationships. Delivered written & verbal reports outlining ongoing operations to senior directors of British Forces. Lead contingency planner as key enabler ensuring logistic support was in place to facilitate operations.