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Soman Ukkath

Soman Ukkath

Muscat,Oman

Summary

30 years of Work experience covering 12 years of front end P&L management, 7 years Operations management and 9 years front end sales management. Expertise in strategic thinking, team building, and P&L management. Demonstrates strong conflict management and emotional intelligence skills to drive process improvement and enhance organisational performance. Committed to leveraging these competencies to achieve sustainable growth and operational excellence. Good analytical capability and interpersonal skills that contribute business growth. Exposure with factory, front end sales unit and hub structure.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Local Business Area Manager - Motion

ABB LLC
Muscat, Oman
08.2019 - Current
  • Established strong relationships with key stakeholders to enhance business growth.
  • Implemented cost-effective measures, resulting in significant savings for the company.
  • Managed budgets effectively, maintaining financial health of designated area stores.
  • Promoted a positive work environment which increased employee retention rate.

Service Manager - Machines

ABB LLC
Dubai, UAE
01.2017 - 12.2019

- P&L responsibility for southern gulf Motor service business. Improved UAE MG service business from 3.9 MUSD to 8.7MUSD in 3 years

- Built team from scratch and developed effective sales plans to maximize market coverage.

- Localized implementation of global strategy for Motor and Generator service business

- Initiated division specific digitalization portfolio at UAE

- Developed 3rdparty motor service workshop at Abudhabi and positioned local ABB as front end for motor service with key customers.

Local Business Unit Manager

ABB LLC
Dubai, UAE
01.2013 - 01.2017

- Worked closely with End users, Consultants and Customers to position ABB product effectively. With this approach, developed business from 1MUSD to 15MUSD in 4 years.

- Supported Rulers engineering office from FEED stage and worked closely with factory to deliver 2 MW SFC using PCS 100(First and biggest installation in MEA)

- Order execution management for local DM division, responsible for 65MUSD revenue, ensuring positive margin movement and customer satisfaction

Operations Manager - Robotics and Motion

ABB LLC
Dubai, UAE
01.2007 - 12.2012

- Created value for business by coordinating with customers and operations team.

- Overall management of deliverables for 50 M$ business, including Technical sales support, Project management, Supply chain management, Field service, Repair workshop and Training.

- Responsible for drives service hub operations for gulf region.

- Ensuring EBIT, cash flow, engineer utilization and fast response time for field service.

- Part of strategy development team for Robotics & Motion business.

- Led the team to successfully deliver and commission multiple drive system projects including supply of products, combined test, string test, transportation and customer acceptance tests at site.

Head of department - Electrical

Nehru College of Engineering
Thrissur, India
07.2003 - 12.2004
  • Improved departmental efficiency by streamlining administrative processes.
  • Created robust reporting systems to track departmental progress accurately.
  • Modernizing Electrical lab and designing experiments.

Manager - Excitation systems

ABB Ltd
Bangalore, India
07.1993 - 07.2003
  • Responsible for order, revenue, EBIT and cash flow targets for excitation system business.
  • Sales and Marketing for Rectifier and excitation system product group.
  • Performed Engineering and Project Management for High current rectifiers(upto 90,000A DC) for Aluminium smelting, copper refining and Electrolysis applications.
  • Engineering and commissioning of excitation systems for 200MW generators

Education

Master of Technology - Power Systems

College of Engineering, Thrissur
India
01.2005 - 12.2006

Master of Business Administration - Marketing

IGNOU
India
01.1999 - 12.2001

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics

College of Engineering, Thiruvanathapuram
India
07.1989 - 06.1993

Skills

Strategic thinking

Team building

P&L management

Conflict management

Emotional intelligence

Process improvement

Languages

English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent
Arabic
Intermediate (B1)

Timeline

Local Business Area Manager - Motion

ABB LLC
08.2019 - Current

Service Manager - Machines

ABB LLC
01.2017 - 12.2019

Local Business Unit Manager

ABB LLC
01.2013 - 01.2017

Operations Manager - Robotics and Motion

ABB LLC
01.2007 - 12.2012

Master of Technology - Power Systems

College of Engineering, Thrissur
01.2005 - 12.2006

Head of department - Electrical

Nehru College of Engineering
07.2003 - 12.2004

Master of Business Administration - Marketing

IGNOU
01.1999 - 12.2001

Manager - Excitation systems

ABB Ltd
07.1993 - 07.2003

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics

College of Engineering, Thiruvanathapuram
07.1989 - 06.1993
Soman Ukkath