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Radha Prasanna Mohanty MBA PMP®, Manager - Sales & Tendering for the GCC Region

Radha Prasanna Mohanty MBA PMP®

Manager - Sales & Tendering for the GCC Region·TUV Rheinland Middle East

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, Marketing

Work experience

Total years of experience: 21 years, 1 months

Manager - Sales & Tendering for the GCC Region

January 2024 - Present

TUV Rheinland Middle East

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

January 2024 - Present

• Developing and implementing pre-sales support and bidding strategy in close collaboration and alignment with sales plan of the particular Country / Region.
• Overseeing the preparation of techno-commercial proposals, ensure all proposals adhere to the relevant Country’s procedures and guidelines, supporting Bid/No-Bid analyses and decisions.
• Reviewing and overseeing the validation of terms and conditions (commercial, technical, legal, pricing) in each proposal, with support from subject-matter experts, manage and participate in the deal risk review and approval process.
• Ensuring the most competitive offers considering the market situation and customer’s priorities and conditions and identify and propose the optimum deal structure for each opportunity.
• Planing, forecasting, evaluating and managing workload to ensure tendering resources are adequately deployed, developed, and equipped to meet business needs.Planning and allocating internal and/or external resources for technical and commercial support and proposal preparation.
• Supporting to the Sales organizations during technical meetings, product presentations, and negotiation with customers and provides technical support and clarification as needed
• Manage, direct and monitor the overall performance of the tender process team to obtain maximum efficiency, quality, service and profitability for the organization.
• Effective liaison, support and assistance between tender process department and rest of organization.
• Maintain and improve mechanisms for obtaining opportunities, surveying and measuring tender process and disseminate feedback to the appropriate internal entities.
• Utilise agreed systems to manage the tender process functions, analysis and documenting.
• Manage the development of plans for tender process activities to achieve targets.
• Developing plans for streamlining tender processes & support to all other departments with tender-related issues.

Company industry:
Management Consulting
Job role:
Management

Senior Business Development & Tender Manager

October 2019 - December 2023

TUV Rheinland ME LLC

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

October 2019 - December 2023

•Play a stellar role in identifying, reviewing, studying, and interpreting the requirements of identified business opportunities (RFPs and Workshop sessions) and working to create successful win themes and strategies for response.
•Prepare and ensure on-time delivery of high-quality, detailed, and comprehensive technical and commercial bid proposals compliant with solicitation requirements and responsive to the interests of relevant stakeholders.
•Responsible for identifying and implementing strategic levers that increase the competitiveness of bid proposals.
•Support and provide inputs in preparing key decision materials for executive review of bid proposals.
•Identify, prospect, onboard, and retain the business by pivotally handling the tendering and business development functions.
•Manage and lead the post-bid lessons learned process, supporting the post-bid state evaluation process and supporting offtake negotiations. Solicit new client base and conduct a business presentation to potential clients.
•Study proposal sections for consistency and clarity, compliance with requirements, alignment with proposed solutions and themes, wrote & re-wrote, and/or edited proposal sections as necessary to deliver a high-quality, winning proposal product.
•Generate new business by handling tender & bidding activities for Govt. /private key clients.
•Entrust with the overall accountability of leading the development of responses to requests for proposals (RFPs) and requests for Information (RFIs). Design the proposal response from receipt of qualified leads, RFI, RFQs/RFPs to final Services.
•Manage various activities, such as leading division sales, handling pipeline, and post-award contract documentation.
•Utilize Microsoft PowerPoint and various graphic tools for designing business development & project-specific presentations.
•Maintain oversight across the proposal development relate document for completeness, compliance with RFP requirements, and inclusion of win themes and discriminators.
•Script the design-build proposal, particularly for ISO certification and related Services.
•Accumulate the RFI until final tender/proposal documents are submitted by aligning departmental policy and procedures.
•Play a stellar role in performing the bid closure activities, including lesson-learned workshops, delivery handover, and collation of bid documentation on the knowledge management system of TUVR.
•Responsible for leading the complete sales lifecycle from prospecting clients to closing deals.
•Conduct strategic networking and enhance valuable client bases to identify and close new business opportunities.
•Generate new client revenue and improve bottom-line profitability by generating leads.
•Liaise with new customers to negotiate and finalize complex and lucrative deals.
•Record client information in bespoke CRM systems, ensuring streamlined data processes for maximum efficiency.
•Contribute to selling professional services by implementing a consultative sales approach.
•Conduct team reviews of proposal strategies, storyboards, win themes, and content as per the TUVR’s proposal process.
•Collaborate with business development and operational leadership to obtain adequate resources for accomplishing a high-quality proposal submission promptly.
•Provide strategic direction to a team to prepare, submit tender bids, follow-ups, and carry out tender presentations.

Key Projects Handled:

• Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation
• ADNOC Offshore
• ADNOC Onshore
• Higher Colleges of Technologies
• Saudi Cement Company
• Tawazun Precision Industries
• Abu Dhabi Ports
• Al Mansoori Holding (12 Countries)
• DB Schenker (8 Countries)
• RAK Govt. Entities (21 Entities)

Company industry:
Management Consulting
Job role:
Sales

Business Development & Tender – Team Lead

June 2013 - September 2019

Bureau Veritas - Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

June 2013 - September 2019

•Held responsible for supporting the bid director/manager in preparing the bids and proposal responses as per the customer requirements, tender instructions, and the accompanying bid strategy. Steered various activities, such as evaluating Bid content, participating in all review meetings, and preparing critical inputs/MoM (minutes of meetings).
•Performed and completed the quality reviews, proofreading, and compliance checks ahead of all proposal submissions.
•Discovered and bridged market opportunities and gaps by applying market and competitor data.
•Achieved the greatest success by consulting the clients on the optimum mix of products and distribution channels.
•Examined potential demand and identified optimal characteristics for services by performing market research.
•Contributed to implementing strategic business growth and retention initiatives, raising year-on-year sales by 12.5%.
•Achieved company cost savings by negotiating best-possible pricing with distributors and customers.
•Supervised sales operations across large teams and territories.
•Expanded the customer base, product line, and sales volume by adding new and retaining existing customers.
•Managed various activities, such as building successful sales teams, preparing appropriate budgets, and implementing strategic action plans to accomplish revenue targets.
•Formed supplier relationships and rendered benefit-oriented sales presentations to prospects for business development.

Company industry:
Management Consulting
Job role:
Sales

Senior Sales & Marketing Executive

May 2011 - May 2013

KCI Management Consultancy

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

May 2011 - May 2013

•Recorded detailed Market information into SAP CRM for accurate record-keeping and maintaining sales compliance.
•Conducted new and existing client visits to scale continued sales growth and meet the monthly and annual targets.
•Advanced sales growth and revenue profitability in line with annual targets by scheduling client appointments.
•Ensured new business growth and progression by tracking the sales leads.
•Performed team improvements by performing performance reviews and conceptualizing action plans.
•Designed & rendered professional sales presentations to communicate product quality and market comparisons creatively.
•Displayed financial acumen in preparing budgets for programme activities and controlled expenditures to meet targets.
•Achieved the utmost ROI by handling paid marketing campaigns on different platforms and carefully overseeing results.
•Led performance across sales, promotions, and marketing departments by outlining business strategies and roadmaps.
•Steered customer engagement and moved high volumes of products by chairing special sales at specific times.
•Scaled sales efficiency aligns with the company’s annual growth strategy by guiding the sales manager.

Company industry:
Management Consulting
Job role:
Management

Assistant Sales & Marketing Manager

March 2007 - April 2011

Sea Blue Consultant

Manama, Bahrain

March 2007 - April 2011

•Maintained rapport with existing customers, achieving above 90% client retention by designing a communication calendar.
•Augmented territory sales of up to USD 2.5 Million by building strategic channels in Bahrain and India.
•Recorded a significant rise in customer retention by 23%, regular client interaction, and customer satisfaction

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Management

Assistant Sales Manager

May 2005 - March 2007

MIRC ELECTRONICS LTD

Bhubaneswar, India

May 2005 - March 2007

- Significant role in increasing annual revenue by 18% with targeted sales and marketing strategy.

Company industry:
Consumer Electronics
Job role:
Sales

Education

KIIT Deemed University

January 2005

January 2005

Master's degree, Marketing

India

GPA (percentage): 78%

GPA (percentage): 78%

Dalmia College, SambalPur University

January 2002

January 2002

Bachelor's degree, Chemistry

India

GPA (percentage): 59%

GPA (percentage): 59%

Skills

Project Management
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Project Management
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Project Bidding
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Project Bidding
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Team Handling
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Team Handling
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Proposal Management
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Proposal Management
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Strategic Financial Planning
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Strategic Financial Planning
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Strategic Planning
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Strategic Planning
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NETWORKING
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NETWORKING
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SALES
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SALES
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
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DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
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EMAIL
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EMAIL
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Sales force
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Sales force
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Key Account Management
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Key Account Management
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Initial Qualification & Validation
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Initial Qualification & Validation
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Team Leadership
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Team Leadership
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Profit Channels Management
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Profit Channels Management
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Proposal Development
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Proposal Development
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Revenue Generation
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Revenue Generation
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Pricing
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Pricing
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Market Intelligence
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Market Intelligence
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Bidding
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Bidding
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Client Acquisition & Retention
Expert
Client Acquisition & Retention
Expert
Project Management
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Project Management
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Languages

English
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Hindi
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Urdu
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Memberships

Project Management Institute

Project Management Professional

June 2022

Training and Certifications

Certifications
IRCA CQI Lead Auditor for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001
Oct 2016
Communication Skills
PMP Certification
Dec 2022 - Dec 2025
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Hobbies

  • Travelling, Attending Professional Seminars, Gardening