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Soufiane Mandour El IdrissiSM

Soufiane Mandour El Idrissi

Engagement Manager, Program Director, PO, Cloud

On-demand
Dubaï, AE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Soufiane

An experienced Senior Engagement/Bid & Program Manager with a decade experience within the European and African market. With extensive experience in consulting, bid management, pre-sales, and leading complex tech & non-tech transformations programs such as Multi-Cloud Computing, Managed Services and Customer Success.
4 x certified cloud services (Amazon web services, Azure Microsoft, IBM Cloud, GCP (in progress) and certified Product Owner and Scrum Master from Scrum Alliances.
With proven assignments through different sectors (Energy & Gaz, Industry, Telco and Communications, Wholesale and Distribution, Government & Public organizations, Transportations & Logistics, Health Care).
Specialized also in FinOps and certified proprietary analyst trader. I earned extensive knowledge and background in dealing with complex financial and economic modeling and financial markets.
With a strong business focus, I work with C-Level executives to help them streamline their business processes & gain a competitive edge, face challenges and move towards high level results leveraging team building.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Dubaï (up to 50km), Abu Dhabi (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Independent Consultant
    Senior Engagement Manager
    February 2023 - Today (3 years and 4 months)
    Dubai - United Arab Emirates
    Cloud and Managed Services specialist Engagement & Bid Management Customer Success Management Program Management FinOps specialist
  • Groupe DFI
    Engagement Manager & Lead Customer Success Manager
    August 2019 - January 2023 (3 years and 5 months)
    Paris, France

    - Leader of offers and solutions by developing proposal responses, win themes, pricing, etc.
    - Part of the shadow-Comex "Executive Committee"
    - In charge of the "Profit & Loss" matrix for D.FI offers, financial offer's negotiation and post-contracts
    - Qualify the needs upstream according to the business & IT customer challenges and the D.FI strategy.
    - In charge of steering the Engagement Committees RFP response with the GO / NOGO decision
    - In charge of proposal for Managed Services on IBM i (Power/AS400), AIX and x86 solutions, etc.
    - Managing the pre-sales phase and produce the Managed Services offers (services, costs and lead times)
    - Develop win themes and innovative pricing strategies for Private D.FI Cloud
    - Evangelize D.FI offers worldwide with key stakeholders through marketing, events and networking (Russia, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Morocco, West Africa) & drive commercial success beyond current scope
    - Creating 15 Client Success Managers champions to run complex proposals (Benchmarking, Vendor Response, etc.) >>> Achievements : Winning 15 M€ on Managed Services offers with 85 %- win ratio for all D.FI offers by leading proposals technically and financially. Upscaling DFI responses models by creating 3 new services lines: multi-Cloud FinOps, the new IaaS x86 and a new work units' model in "Profit & Loss" matrix.
  • ENGIE
    Cloud Program Manager
    January 2018 - January 2019 (1 year)
    Île-de-France, France
    Cloud Program Manager | ENGIE Group - GRTGAZ | Consulting Amazon Web Services Cloud migration of "ENGIE's Research Center" on premise applications to GRTGaz and RICE : Research & Innovation Center of Energy.
    - Specifying strategies of cloud computing adoption with the technical and financial departments
    - Leader of migration and managing the transformation to AWS Cloud
    - Managing the DevOps team and handling external providers contributions in accordance with GRTGaz policies, track project milestones and post-migration governance
    - In charge of FinOps of AWS resources (Cost optimization, resources mutualization etc)
    - Implementation of RUN model with the "C" level and the IT departments, outsourcing and providers
    - Managing contracts with suppliers/editors and negotiations with providers (Dassault, Dnv-gl, GexCon) >>> Achievements : Successfully migrating 20 Apps to AWS Cloud with an initial Budget of 3 M € Major apps. : High Performance Calculator (HPC) / Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) while building the new Cloud Center Excellence model for future cloud migration plans.

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Education

  • Master of Engineering
    Ecole nationale supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications
    2016
    Master of Engineering , National School of Electronics and its Applications

Certifications

  • Certified Scrum Master & Product Owner
    Scrum Alliances
    2017
    Agile Project Management Agile method product owner Scrum
  • Certified Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner
    Amazon Web Services
    2019
    Cloud computing Cloud AWS

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