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Heading a 30-strong cross-functional team, Peter Tompkins has done a great deal to optimise support of Downer’s diverse business lines across the resource-management sector. This has included centralising all legal support, dividing it across specialist divisions and introducing KPIs and a flat, autonomous reporting structure. With exceptionally high staff retention, Tompkins says he has worked to ‘create a very distinctive, high performance culture where team morale is high’. ‘We are a large organisation of 20,000-plus people and the pace of change is big and constant’, Tompkins says. ‘Our legal team gets exposure to a hugely diverse range of businesses and markets’. Tompkins was previously a senior associate at Corrs Chambers Westgarth.