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Bulelani Mxoxozi

Wirral ,Merseyside

Summary

Bid & Commercial Solutions Specialist with 10+ years’ experience delivering complex, multi-million-pound technology deals across global markets. Proven ability to shape winning bid strategies, design commercially viable solutions, and influence cross-functional stakeholders across Sales, Finance, Legal, and Delivery.

Experienced across cloud, cybersecurity, networking, and managed services, with a strong track record of improving win rates, accelerating deal cycles, and enabling non-standard deal structures through effective commercial modelling and governance.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work history

Programme manager (Contract)

Cisco
London, London
2025.04 - Current
  • - Lead regional programme governance and compliance strategy across distributor network, ensuring alignment with evolving commercial and regulatory requirements
  • - Design and implement structured processes to improve quality, consistency, and approval success of partner-led funding proposals
  • - Provide strategic guidance to partners on programme utilisation, enabling stronger commercial outcomes and improved funding efficiency
  • - Deliver training and enablement to internal and external stakeholders, improving adoption of best practices and compliance standards
  • - Produce performance insights and reporting to identify optimisation opportunities and influence programme improvements

Senior Deal Desk Analyst

Imprivata
Uxbridge, London
2024.02 - 2024.12
  • Acted as trusted commercial advisor to Sales, shaping complex deal structures and pricing strategies across EMEA and US markets
  • - Led end-to-end deal lifecycle for high-value, non-standard opportunities, aligning stakeholders across Legal, Finance, and Sales
  • - Developed business cases and cost-benefit analyses to support strategic deal decisions and investment approvals
  • - Enabled faster deal closure by proactively managing approval workflows within Salesforce (CPQ) and resolving bottlenecks
  • - Ensured contractual and commercial compliance while balancing competitiveness and profitability

Deal Desk Analyst (Contract)

Skillsoft
London, London
2023.10 - 2024.01
  • Supported sales teams in structuring competitive, commercially sound deals aligned to pricing and discounting frameworks
  • - Partnered with cross-functional teams to manage approvals, mitigate risk, and enable non-standard deal configurations
  • - Improved sales efficiency by reducing turnaround time on deal approvals and increasing process transparency

Senior IT Business Analyst

Computacenter
Hatfield , London
2022.10 - 2023.07

- Partnered with Solution Architects and Sales to design and optimise Cisco service renewal solutions
- Contributed to achieving an 80% renewal win rate through improved commercial alignment and stakeholder engagement
- Managed end-to-end lifecycle of maintenance and service deals, from planning through to execution
- Gathered and translated business and technical requirements into commercially viable solutions
- Introduced reporting and data insights to improve decision-making and identify revenue opportunities

Deal Hub Associate (temporary)

Gartner
Egham , London
2022.06 - 2022.09
  • Supported Bid Managers and Sales Executives in managing high-volume deal requests and proposal workflows
  • Streamlined deal processes to increase sales productivity and reduce administrative burden
  • Maintained governance and audit compliance across all deal activities using CRM systems

Senior Global Quoting Specialist

NTT Ltd
London, London
2016.10 - 2022.05
  • Led commercial structuring and pricing for 1,600+ global deals annually, with total value exceeding $300M, contributing to $75M in realised revenue
  • - Enabled complex, multi-vendor solutions across 160+ countries, supporting large-scale enterprise bids
  • - Played key role in expanding global quoting capabilities, increasing partner-led transactions to 52% of total volume
  • - Designed and implemented new quote production models for non-transactional vendors, improving scalability and efficiency
  • - Acted as key interface between Sales, Partners, and internal stakeholders to ensure commercially competitive and deliverable solutions

Sales Operations Executive

Dimension data (now NTT ltd)
London, London
2014.04 - 2016.09
  • Supported end-to-end bid lifecycle across RFQ, RFP, and RFI processes for enterprise technology solutions
  • Developed pricing models and deal structures aligned to client requirements and commercial objectives
  • Collaborated with vendors and internal teams to deliver consistent, high-quality proposals
  • Gained full exposure to the quote-to-cash lifecycle, including finance, logistics, and service delivery

Education

Certificate of Higher Education - Health Sciences

University of Western Cape
Cape Town
01.2002

Skills

CORE SKILLS

  • Bid Management & RFP / RFQ / RFI Leadership
  • Solution Design & Commercial Structuring
  • Pricing Strategy & Deal Modelling
  • Cross-functional Bid Leadership (Sales, Legal, Finance, Delivery)
  • Deal Governance & Approval Management
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Executive Communication
  • Contract & Compliance Alignment
  • CRM & Tools: Salesforce (CPQ), Excel, Reporting & Analytics

Timeline

Programme manager (Contract)

Cisco
2025.04 - Current

Senior Deal Desk Analyst

Imprivata
2024.02 - 2024.12

Deal Desk Analyst (Contract)

Skillsoft
2023.10 - 2024.01

Senior IT Business Analyst

Computacenter
2022.10 - 2023.07

Deal Hub Associate (temporary)

Gartner
2022.06 - 2022.09

Senior Global Quoting Specialist

NTT Ltd
2016.10 - 2022.05

Sales Operations Executive

Dimension data (now NTT ltd)
2014.04 - 2016.09

Certificate of Higher Education - Health Sciences

University of Western Cape
Bulelani Mxoxozi