Since 2012, Khazna has become the leading wholesale data center provider in the Middle East and North Africa, delivering reliable and scalable infrastructure to support the region’s growing digital ecosystem.
We are seeking a to Commercial Excellence Manager works with their line manager to execute Khazna’s Commercial Governance & Bid Process. They are responsible for coordinating, facilitating, and assuring compliance with commercial governance, bid excellence, and continuous-improvement standards across Khazna’s sales lifecycle. This ensures that strategic and complex opportunities are pursued and delivered in line with company standards, approval gates, and risk-management requirements.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Implement and continuously improve Khazna’s Commercial Excellence Framework.
- Coordinate commercial governance across Sales, Presales, Design, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Legal and Procurement.
- Facilitate opportunity qualification, bid/no-bid decisions, pricing approvals, contract reviews and formal approval gates.
- Ensure compliance with the Delegation of Authority, pricing guidelines, risk policies and commercial governance requirements.
- Maintain CRM discipline, pipeline data quality and opportunity-stage accuracy.
- Develop commercial dashboards and analytics covering pipeline, conversion, bid performance, cycle time and commercial risks.
- Support commercial capability-building and training across relevant teams.
- Strengthen sales-to-contract and bid-to-delivery handovers to reduce risk and improve execution readiness
- Coordinate the end-to-end bid lifecycle, from qualification and bid/no-bid decisions through proposal development, submission, negotiation and award.
- Develop bid strategies, project plans, timelines, governance schedules, RACI matrices and action trackers.
- Coordinate inputs from commercial, technical, operational, financial, legal and procurement stakeholders.
QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, telecommunications, commercial management or a related discipline.
- Bid management, proposal management, commercial management or project-management certification is preferred.
- APMP or an equivalent professional qualification is an advantage.
Minimum Experience
- Minimum ten years of experience in bid management, proposal management, commercial operations or commercial excellence.
- At least three to five years of experience coordinating complex, cross-functional B2B bids.
- Experience within data centers, telecommunications, cloud, technology or critical infrastructure is preferred.
