Sohil Garg Sohil.Garg@gmail.

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Mechanical Engineer, MBA - Strategy and Finance +1 979 739 4302

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• 15 years of Oil and Gas industry experience across supply chain, engineering, manufacturing, business strategy
and intelligence
o Supply Chain Manager: set up supply chain commercial teams, developed deal strategies and tactics, new
external supply relationships and managed mega tenders and post award execution
o Manufacturing and Operations lead: Executed performance improvement, cost reduction initiatives and cross-
continent production line transfers
• Certified MCIPS, APICS, Lean Six Sigma and trained in Project Management, Advanced Negotiations.

EXPERIENCE
2016 – present Supply Chain Commercial Manager – Shell US, Brazil, Qatar, UAE
2022 – present Advisory Board, CT Bauer School of Business CE Program, University of Houston
Commercial Leadership and Strategy
• Roles with successive increasing responsibility and influence on external relationships and deal size.
• Managed Complex Supply Chains for major projects and turnarounds in Shell portfolio (integrated gas,
deep-water, wind energies) with a focus on developing and delivering Commercial Strategy for projects,
closely working with JV partners.
• Established the procurement strategy and team for Shell’s first Wind Repower project in Texas – including
close alliance with newly formed Wind Business in New Energies portfolio.
• Part of and led cross functional leadership teams with strong internal and JV relationships with operations,
safety, legal, finance, commercial and product managers to ensure strategy alignment and delivery.
• Coached and mentored early and mid-career professionals to move from operational to strategic supply chain
management.
Delivery
• Managed project maturation from identification to FID and execution, across Technical, Economic,
Commercial and Operational spectrum.
• Structure opportunities and risks for right decision making at Decision Review Boards.
• Managed portfolio of projects and teams spread across Shell. This includes long term direction setting for
establishing and developing country supply chain delivery teams.
o Complex EPC contract development and negotiations, with deal values from $10mln to $10bln.
o Develop and manage demand and supply plan (procurement plans).
• Developed new supply chains with vendor selection and due diligence (HSSE, E&C, Technical and
commercial) in high-risk countries.
• Managed and developed strategic relationships at C-suite and senior leadership levels.
• Established negotiation strategies, procurement process and cost management and controls.
Transformation and Continuous Improvement
• Led country level supply chain transformation with initiatives such as establishing end to end Procurement
processes, reducing cash turnover, establishing integrated demand and supply plans, roll out of cloud based
SAP Ariba procurement platform, planning and reporting on KPIs.
Key Skills
Negotiations Cost & Schedule Development People Management Senior Stakeholder Management Supply Chain
Transformation Change Management Strategy Contract and Claims management Decision Quality Project Maturation

2013 – 2016 Group Strategy Program Office, Shell UAE, India

• Setup and ran Group strategy Program office for Global Local Content Strategy development and
Continuous Improvement
• Developed new market entry strategies and supply chain development plans for establishing license to
operate.

Key Skills
Country Strategy Benchmarking Market Intelligence Cost Modeling Stakeholder Management Lean Six Sigma

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2007 – 2013 Schlumberger – USA, India
Operations and Supply Chain
• Led a cross-functional teams of 15 people across manufacturing, logistics, procurement, and engineering
to manage product manufacturing and new product development.
• Conducted an inter-continental product line transfer: reduced lead-time by 30% by rationalizing suppliers
and implementing leaner logistics.
• Lean Mentor for Schlumberger, India operations

Key Skills
Supplier Development Offshoring Lean Six Sigma Manufacturing Management Strategic Procurement Project
Management
QUALIFICATIONS
2012 – 2013 MBA in Strategy and Finance
CGPA 3.67/4 Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India
Special Honors – Dean’s List, ISB Merit List, ISB Scholarship.

2003 – 2007 Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering

CGPA 9.19/10 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

• “Building a holistic O&G career” published in SPE, July 2021.
• “Geopolitical and Regulatory Risk Quantification” published in SPE.
- Discussion Leader in 2014 SPE workshop on Non-Technical Risk Management in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Published in the Middle East Oil and Gas Conference and Show (MEOS) 2015, Bahrain.
• “Design of robotic grippers for grasping deformable objects” published in The International Journal of Advanced
Robotics Systems, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2006).

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