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Dounia Bahassa, Director Business Planning, bid and Channel Management

Dounia Bahassa

Director Business Planning, bid and Channel Management ·SPACE 42

United Arab Emirates

Bachelor's degree, Automation and Control Engineering

Work experience

Total years of experience: 17 years, 9 months

Director Business Planning, bid and Channel Management

January 2025 - Present

SPACE 42

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

January 2025 - Present

Responsibilities:
-Lead global commercial planning and channel development strategy, supporting Service Partners across both Thuraya and YahClick business units.
-Drive revenue growth through strategic partner enablement, co-marketing initiatives, and optimization of the global distribution ecosystem.
-Head the Proposal Department for AI Bayanat solutions, overseeing all bid activities, from lead qualification to final submission, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer requirements.
-Manage a cross-functional team including proposal managers, technical writers, and commercial coordinators to deliver high-quality and competitive proposals.
-Collaborate closely with sales, product, and marketing teams to shape go-to-market strategies and support successful international solution launches.

-Lead and organize strategic sales demonstrations for government and enterprise clients, showcasing Thuraya’s capabilities.
-Implement pipeline tracking frameworks, sales dashboards, and process automation tools to improve visibility, reduce cycle times, and support executive decision-making.
-Oversee global onboarding and enablement of Service Partners, ensuring fast activation, structured training, and scalable commercial support.

Key Achievements
-Increased revenue contribution from AI Bayanat proposals through targeted bid strategies and tailored solution positioning.
-Streamlined the full proposal cycle, reducing turnaround time and improving win ratios through process optimization and cross-team alignment.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Sales

Manager Business Planning and Channel Management

February 2023 - December 2024

SPACE 42

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

February 2023 - December 2024

Responsibilities:
-Manage support teams for Thuraya and Yahclick, ensuring efficient service delivery and coordination with commercial functions.
-Lead key government events and live demos to showcase Thuraya’s capabilities.
-Oversee the co-marketing budget and execution of joint partner campaigns.
-Maintain strong relationships with Service Partners and manage distribution strategy with main suppliers.
-Review contracts, enhance purchasing processes, and support new product launches in coordination with Product Management.
-Own the Service Partner implementation process, driving timely onboarding and cross-functional alignment.
-Monitor service quality, customer support performance, and Thuraya e-shop operations, introducing continuous improvements.

Key Achievements:
-Completed full business unit integration in 3 quarters.
-Introduced sales-driven process improvements.
-Coached Service Partners to successfully enter new markets.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Sales

Senior Inside Sales Specialist

March 2020 - January 2023

Intelsat

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

March 2020 - January 2023

Responsibilities:
- Managed strategic key accounts across MENA and Africa, acting as the main commercial point of contact to drive account growth, retention, and customer satisfaction.
- Led customer engagement from initial inquiry through proposal, contract negotiation, and delivery coordination, ensuring seamless communication across sales, engineering, and operations.
- Designed and implemented sales support tools, pricing templates, and internal workflows to streamline proposal development and improve sales responsiveness.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to customize solutions aligned with each customer’s technical and commercial needs.
- Monitored account performance and sales pipeline, providing input to forecasting, reporting, and strategic planning.

Key Achievements:
- Grew revenue from key MENA and African customers by building strong relationships and aligning offerings with business goals.
- Developed centralized access to customer data and documentation, improving internal alignment and decision-making.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Sales

FSA Senior Proposal engineer

September 2014 - January 2020

emerson

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

September 2014 - January 2020

Responsibilities:
• Apply Emerson and Third-Party Products in the design of solutions to develop business opportunities
• Prepare and present technical features of Emerson and Third-Party products including the completion of
compliance statements against enquiry documents;
• Review the Request for Quote (RFQ) received from Emerson locations across North & West Africa
• Collaborate, Communicate and align activities with the local sales teams to understand customer
requirements
• Provide general support to the Sales force
• Develop and maintain a sound knowledge of automation products and Industry applications
• Lead multidivisional projects to elaborate a totally integrated solution for the End-user
• Coordinate the back-office teams to get complete and accurate techno-commercial proposal
• Participate in internal kick-off meetings/calls to handover the project to operations
• Review the legal terms with the support of legal team
• Collaborate with the execution team to optimize the execution hours
• Support the operation team during the execution stage
• Coordinates proposals following procedures, including planning, review of proposals.
• Ensure compliance with the procedures for making proposals and revisions.
• Support the Sales force to meet the customer budget by optimizing the solution
• Site visits to understand customer expectations
2 | 4
Achievements:
• Present new business strategy to top management
• Prepare account planning for automation solution business
• Developing new tools to estimate costs, improve the internal process, reduce calculations and organize
the tasks between all the participants involved during the bidding stage
• Achieved 98% on time submission of quotes

Company industry:
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Job role:
Engineering

Inside Sales Leader at Automation Solutions

October 2012 - September 2014

EMERSON

Argentina

October 2012 - September 2014

Responsibilities:
• Lead inside sales team and remote locations (Costa Rica).
• Lead Multidivisional Projects across South Cone America
• Coordinates with the other divisions the multidivisional bundled project quotations.
• Generates quotations for customers: end users, Account Leaders, the salesperson at the representative
organizations, and Emerson’s solutions group
• Work directly with customers in the FEED stage
• Work directly with our Local Business Partner to get complete and accurate techno-commercial
proposal
• Train and develop Junior Inside Sales
• Create and develop guideline to improve the process
• Participate on sales and execution strategy.
• Coordinate the back-office teams to get complete and accurate techno-commercial proposal
• Participate in internal kick-off meetings/calls to handover the project to operations
• Review the legal terms with the support of legal team
• Review the technical and legal part of the orders
• Site visits to understand customer expectations
• Support the operation team during the execution stage
• Coordinates proposals following procedures, including planning, review of proposals.
• Ensure compliance with the procedures for making proposals and revisions.
• Ensure compliance procedures for technical and commercial review of purchase orders
• Ensure that technical review process of purchase orders is conducted in the expected time to meet On
Time Buy
• Assist in developing and monitoring performance metrics
• Contributes to the improvement and development of proposals processes and procedures.
• Reviews and approves the work of other proposal engineers.
• Participates in the process of proposal scope definition.
• Trains other engineers on existing proposal processes.
• Lead other Business unit occasionally, review distribute their workload and ensure meeting their On
Time Delivery
Achievements:
• Achieved 100% on time submission of quotes
• Influencing customer specification by working closely in the FEED Stage
• Improved engineering capacity by 15% (retention and training program)
• Understanding other business unit products
• Complete 1.6M USD project in 48 hours

Company industry:
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Job role:
Sales

Senior Inside Sales at Automation Solutions–

July 2011 - October 2012

EMERSON

Argentina

July 2011 - October 2012

Responsibilities:
• Review the Request for Quote (RFQ) received Review the Request for Quote (RFQ) received
• Lead projects with the back office in different location (Costa Rica)
• Responsible for delivering clean orders to Intercompany Cell.
• Provides input in developing sales strategies
• Generates a detailed and accurate pricing estimates (including Products, Buy Outs, Services and
contracted services)
• Serves as an information resource for the team, and train others. Functions as a training resource for
specific topics within the job responsibilities for the rest of the organization when needed.
• Work directly with customers, Field Sales and Field Service to provide pre-sales application support and
to generate formal quotations for customers.
• Lead the customer through the sizing and selection process to choose equipment that will meet their
needs.
• Follow-up with customers to answer any questions or Logs
• Continue to enhance knowledge of products, applications and industries.
• Verifies the incoming purchase orders in terms of product selection and sizing correctness,
completeness of any required configuration or application data sheet.
• Performs sales through the phone, or Internet.
• Keeps record of the incoming quotations and orders by division, account, product, territory, and
representative
• Participate in internal kick-off meetings/calls to handover the project to operations
Achievements:
• Achieved 95% on time submission of quotes.
• Lead other Business unit, meet the OTD by 90%
• Reducing the cost during the execution by 2%

Company industry:
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Job role:
Sales

Senior Inside Sales at Automation Solutions–

July 2011 - October 2012

EMERSON

Argentina

July 2011 - October 2012

Responsibilities:
• Review the Request for Quote (RFQ) received Review the Request for Quote (RFQ) received
• Lead projects with the back office in different location (Costa Rica)
• Responsible for delivering clean orders to Intercompany Cell.
• Provides input in developing sales strategies
• Generates a detailed and accurate pricing estimates (including Products, Buy Outs, Services and
contracted services)
• Serves as an information resource for the team, and train others. Functions as a training resource for
specific topics within the job responsibilities for the rest of the organization when needed.
• Work directly with customers, Field Sales and Field Service to provide pre-sales application support and
to generate formal quotations for customers.
• Lead the customer through the sizing and selection process to choose equipment that will meet their
needs.
• Follow-up with customers to answer any questions or Logs
• Continue to enhance knowledge of products, applications and industries.
• Verifies the incoming purchase orders in terms of product selection and sizing correctness,
completeness of any required configuration or application data sheet.
• Performs sales through the phone, or Internet.
• Keeps record of the incoming quotations and orders by division, account, product, territory, and
representative
• Participate in internal kick-off meetings/calls to handover the project to operations
Achievements:
• Achieved 95% on time submission of quotes.
• Lead other Business unit, meet the OTD by 90%
• Reducing the cost during the execution by 2%

Company industry:
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Job role:
Sales

Semi-senior Inside Sales at Automation Solutions

October 2010 - July 2011

EMERSON

Argentina

October 2010 - July 2011

Responsibilities:
• Review the Request for Quote (RFQ) received Review the Request for Quote (RFQ) received
• Responsible for delivering clean orders to Intercompany Cell.
• Verifies the incoming purchase orders in terms of product selection and sizing correctness,
completeness of any required configuration or application data sheet.
• Prepare the cost sheet to order entry team
• Performs sales through the phone, or Internet.
• Keeps record of the incoming quotations and orders by division, account, product, territory, and
representative
• Manage customer portal for the incoming request for quote
• Participate in internal kick-off meetings/calls to handover the project to operations
Achievements:
• Achieved 98% on time submission of quotes.

Company industry:
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Job role:
Sales

Customer Support Manager

May 2007 - June 2009

SIEMENS

Casablanca, Morocco

May 2007 - June 2009

Responsibilities:
• Representing as a single point of contact for the customer for all matters related to the service portfolio.
• Working with the regional sales leadership and other Siemens business lines to support with capital
equipment purchases.
• Monitoring the Technical Support
• Management of Field Services
• Spare Ordering Processes
• Warranty Decision and Handling
• Credit and Returns Handling
• Managing customer training
Achievements:
• Implementation of the global service and support structure given by HQ in morocco

Company industry:
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Job role:
Sales

Education

emsi

June 2006

June 2006

Bachelor's degree, Automation and Control Engineering

Morocco

GPA (percentage): 80%

GPA (percentage): 80%

Skills

Result Oriented
Expert
Result Oriented
Expert
Time Management
Expert
Time Management
Expert
Negotiation
Expert
Negotiation
Expert
Procurement
Expert
Procurement
Expert
Bidding
Expert
Bidding
Expert
leadership
Expert
leadership
Expert
time management
Expert
time management
Expert

Social profiles

Languages

English

Native Speaker

Arabic

Native Speaker

French

Native Speaker

Spanish

Native Speaker

Hobbies and interests

Traveling