Brian Fulton Email & Phone Number

Port Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Scotland, United Kingdom

Gourock, Inverclyde, United Kingdom

• This was a start-up, and a crucial aspect of CalMac’s successful 2016 bid to win an eight-year extension to its contract. Having led the bid process, including 24 public meetings, more intimate local communication was.
• Delivered, in two years, a complete turnaround in the relationship between CalMac, the local community and their political representatives, greatly improving the atmosphere between the company and the government.
• Created this engagement structure with the Western Isles and Clyde Island communities, including the first Community Board, a Chair, a twelve-member local stakeholder board, while managing relationships with.
• Successfully designed the engagement strategy, built the organisational strategy to develop it and recruited high quality staff to lead, from communications professionals to a CSR Manager.
• Defended the expenditure of resources and acted as a channel of communication to the Board ensuring community messages informed decisions, including those of interest to Scottish Government Ministers.
• Established a successful grant scheme for local community projects to fund better community engagement, ensuring they were effective, and the money was well governed.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

• This was a unique situation. A Ministry of Defence port had been leased to a commercial consortium to service military and profitable ends. The conflicts between business efficiency and military readiness needed.
• Taking a successful leading role in recruiting the executive team to lead the repositioned company.
• Building a relationship of trust with the local commanding officers and with Whitehall, understanding their lack of interest in commercial challenges, need for urgent mobilisation, and giving faith this would be done.
• Advising the executive on the due diligence process for a potential cruise ship client.
• Leaving the relationship with the MoD more willing to accept that commercial uses, properly risk managed and by companies aware of potential military urgent needs, were possible, enhancing potential contract lifetime.

Marchwood, England, United Kingdom

• I was the first employee, and tasked to deliver an MoD contract to combine readiness with the potential for commercial operations. The culture clash with the Army ethos was huge and required the utmost patience and.
• Delivering the early stages of the winning bids’ operational elements, with its hard (people and facilities) and soft (Whitehall MoD relationship management) elements.
• Mastering the very hierarchical MoD decision making process (up to Major General Rank), discovering where the real decision makers were and how their fears could be assuaged to enable commercial coexistence with.
• Discovering and devising solutions to numerous health and safety issues caused by the combined military/commercial nature of the base, winning the Army’s trust that we were safe to work there.
• Building relationships with an unusually complex stakeholder group including four trades unions, three councils and residents to gain the changes the licensees needed to commence commercial operations.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Defended CalMac’s future, leading the operations element (the largest) of the company’s bid activity against SERCO, faced the challenge of cost with initiatives to improve community relationships and reduce the.
• Wrote, with Transport Scotland, the country’s National Ferries Plan (I have recently been asked to consider working on its replacement).
• Identified the 50 most strategic ports for the network, created a new Head of Harbours to lead them, raised safety with a common approach, and changed culture to make ferries the clients of the ports, with performance.
• Successfully led a negotiation (including with trade unions) modernising the terms and conditions of 1,400 employees with a £60m pay bill, that reduced remuneration despite considerable hostility, without losing a.

Gourock

Gourock

Rothesay

Gourock

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Leadership Studies, Passed With Distinction

Advanced Management

Bachelor Of Accountancy Bacc, Accountancy

Education record

Education record

Education record