PORTRAIT: Samuli Kyttälä

Prohoc is on a verge of expanding the service portfolio and utilizing new kind of business and project opportunities. In order to get there we are receiving a helping hand: Prohoc is proud to present Samuli Kyttälä, the new Chief Business Officer. Samuli has extensive background in project business internationally and he is responsible for Prohoc’s Project Business.

BACKGROUND

I was born in Espoo in 1973. I followed my parents on their professional path and graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 2000. I studied product development, manufacturing and industrial economics. I live in Porvoo with my wife and three sons.

HOBBIES

My passion is ice hockey. Even though I don’t play much myself, I enjoy cheering Porvoo Hunters (Suomi-sarja) and K-Espoo (Mestis). I also enjoy jogging; I try to do that at least a couple of times a week. Most of our leisure time we spend at our summer cottage in Loviisa.

STARTING THE CAREER

During my master’s studies I received an opportunity to work as a trainee and write my master’s thesis at Neste, later Neste Jacobs. Working in different types of customer projects with different customers was very interesting and provided continuously new challenges to learn and to grow on. I got opportunities to work and live abroad, meet people and professionals from many different cultures and learn from them.

LEADERSHIP

I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work in organizations and companies led by innovative and courageous leaders. They have had skills to motivate and encourage people to shine and to operate as a winning team towards mutual success. I appreciate the leaders’ capability to receive and utilize feedback.

“IT IS AWESOME TO GET A PERSON LIKE SAMULI TO JOIN OUR TEAM! HE WILL STRENGTHEN OUR CAPABILITIES TO SERVE OUR CUSTOMERS BETTER AND ON A BROADER SCALE”

Iiro Wesslin

DIRECTOR FOR SALES & RECRUITMENT PROHOC

FEATURES OF A LEADER

I believe in a few cornerstones of leadership, such as trust, honesty and fairness. Effective communication is the key to success. A good leader is also capable of receiving feedback and taking corrective actions and making changes to improve and develop him/herself.

ROAD TO PROHOC

Prohoc has an excellent reputation as a trustworthy project partner in industrial projects. I know we have a lot of potential to generate and deliver customer value via wide scope of project services. We have also great basis to develop services and business further with our customers towards longterm partnerships keeping the focus on Customers’ ultimate needs and common success. CONTINUES ≥

AS A CBO

I am a business-oriented leader with high customer focus. I have also learned to utilize company strategy as a basis of doing business. I believe in continuous co-operation and communication (internally and with the customers). A good leader leads the willingness to win together.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Great first weeks at Prohoc! We have very talented people and I really feel Prohoc is a team! I have had the opportunity to participate in Prohoc’s strategy review and future planning, and I am looking forward to working accordingly and getting in touch more with our customers. We have a great future ahead of us!

CHALLENGES IN BUSINESS

The biggest business challenges today are global. It might not be possible to execute the work or deliver the services anymore the way we used to. We need to be flexible, innovative and agile to find new ways of working, utilize new technologies and/or tools etc. I can see this as one of our strengths at Prohoc.

MEASURING SUCCESS

I am used to operating based on the strategy. We need to prepare it well, via communication throughout the organization and with customers and stakeholders leading to manageable implementation. Then we will set the multilevel goals (short and long term) accordingly and execute.

MOTIVATION

I am motivated when I see results and concrete outcomes. Doing things with a purpose, co-operation and working together as a team are the basis for motivating environment.

SUCCESSFUL WORKDAY

Utilizing resources, including time, efficiently and avoiding unnecessary activities, that are not supporting our core tasks.

GREETINGS

The first weeks at Prohoc have been very exciting, I have met nice and enthusiastic people who made me feel very welcome to the company. We have met some customers via Teams-meetings; I hope we can also meet face-to-face soon. When co-working together we can develop and secure the best service option for the project’s needs!

Samuli Kyttälä

WÄRTSILÄ 2017–2020

Senior Business Innovation Manager, Performance Services

Senior Business Development Manager, Oil & Gas Services

NESTE ENGINEERING, NESTE JACOBS 1999–2017

NESTE TA2020 (Major Turnaround), Head of Investment Project Portfolio

VP, Project Deliveries / Middle East

VP, Sales and BD / Middle East

VP, Head of Project Management (PM, PC, Procurement, CM, project ICT)

Project Manager / Finland, Austria

Engineering Manager / Finland, Austria

Head of Equipment Engineering

Rotating Equipment Engineer

Layout and Piping Engineer