General Cable – Business Manager Turkey HV/EHV (Middle East)
• Managed Business activities from concept to closing stage of Turkey projects
• Been the front face of the company and established strong relationships with business partners
• Headed bid/tender submission (purchase Bid Packages and arranged Bid and various otherbonds required for tender submission)
• Sole responsible for reviewing Project’s contractual requirements with Techno-Commercial and Legal team to make suitable offer in a competitive environment and within tight response time
• Coordinated with various departments involved in analyzing the RISK involved in projects (Legal,Commercial, Financial and Execution) and formulated a common RISK MITIGATION strategy
• Planned and Presented Sales Budget for the region with required strategies to achieve the
targeted revenue to BU Head (joint P&L responsibility)
• Influenced BU Head/Executives on decisive Business Strategy, with timely Market Intelligence on competition, contractors and services, aimed at market growth, maximize revenue
• Gathered market information on price level, product pricing and margin generation
• Analyzed various costs involved to evolve ‘under costing’ and ‘over pricing’
• Lead Commercial and Project teams to Site Visits, Pre-Bid/Post-Bid Clarification Meetings and KOM post project award
• Provided feedback on regional pricing trends, information to help establish margins, together with the back office (tender, contracts and marketing)
• Learned customer decision level and decision-making process
• Adhered to Company’s compliance and business conduct guidelines while negotiating with clients
• Actively participated in preparing Project Development plan with Projects Team
• Collaborated with various in-house team to ensure project execution is smooth and all required approvals within the company is available for a successful project completion
• Coordinated with various departments concerned to avoid any project execution delays and LDs’
• Participated in RFQ and RFP preparation for sub-contracting works, assisted to prepare vendor qualification (as per client’s AVL) packages for major RFQ’s, reviewed contracts’ T&C, negotiated and closed deals within responsible time frame
• Proposed selective local agents to BU Head and work with legal department to frame an agency agreement
• Resolved delivery and other issues by coordinating with production and SCM unit
• Provided timely feedback to Finance team on Cash Flow and Future revenue stream/analysis
• Honored to be nominated as Global Compliance Committee Member for ME Chapter, a reward for my INTEGRITY
• Associated with Marketing team in Exhibitions and Trade Shows
• Attended Trade Shows Globally representing GCC region and hosted various events in UAE
• Managed/submitted bids worth €350M+ of UG Power Transmission Turnkey Project in-a-go
• Monitored and streamlined more than €500M future sales pipeline
• Delivered SMART objectives set for the region
• On board with panel discussion related major acquisitions and CAPEX
• Contributed to valued engineering (UG Cable, System Design and Construction Design) for Competitive Bid Price enhancement
• Has my footprint on iconic projects in GCC (HV/EHV Power Transmission, Construction andMarine O&G)
• Developed new business accounts and maintained critical business relationships with existing accounts
• Established strong networking amongst regional: Utilities, Contractors, Services providers and Large Electrical Distributors