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Othman ZAKARIA

Senior Sales and Proposal manager - Grid Solutions - GE Vernova

Othman ZAKARIA
34 years old
Driving License
Casablanca Morocco
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
Over 13 years international experience in the Power transmission sector, I have held various positions within GE Grid Solutions business, from R&D engineer, to Senior Sales manager, through Operations, technical tendering, commercial and proposal manager.
Customer focused and strategic thinker with a solid track record of building client relationship, process improvement and complex deals structuring.
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  • Defined sales plans and go to market strategy according to market trends and customer needs
  • Drove customer meetings and supported successful negotiations resulting in major deals closure while meeting internal KPIs and customer CTQs
  • Led and mobilized deals team (operations, engineering, finance , legal, Tax) around complex deals structuring and sales campaigns with a result-oriented approach
  • Successfully initiated growth initiatives across Grid business by creating customer new needs and emotional buys
  • Defined Commercial strategies based on most competitive deal structures, involving Tax, preferential origins, local contents, custom clearance and other customer CTQs
  • Led technical tendering, solution definition, costing, technical and commercial proposal consolidation
  • Streamlined the commercial process, including scope development, risk management, compliance, pricing, cash metrics, sales agreements and negotiations
  • Led "Ready to Use proposals" process and successfully defined the integration process, project indicators and implementation.
  • producing 120+ technical and commercial proposals per year, averaging 65% win rate on transactional service deals
  • Project/contract management for Engineering, manufacturing, supply, E&C of AIS equipment - 15M€ / year
  • Technical matter expertise to customers/end users
  • Financial follow-up and sales recognition
  • customer intimacy at execution and after sales phase
  • Project manager (budget 1.4M€, 6 persons)
  • Technical reference and subject mater expertise to Product lines
  • HV circuit breakers Design and testing
  • Technical feasability study
  • Design, testing and performance validation on new HV Circuit breakers development
  • HV testing, homologation and expertise on HV circuit breakers according to international standards (IEC, IEEE)
  • Multi-physics modeling and calculation: Electrostatic - Mechanics - Fluidics - Pneumatics - Thermal
  • Diagnosis of high speed machine tools by vibration monitoring.
  • Analytical calculation and numerical modeling of rolling elements.
  • Development of a decision support software under Matlab.