Description:
The OpenText Professional Services team is comprised of more than 3,000 consultants who act as trusted advisors, managing long-lasting relationships with more than 100,000 customers around the world. They are responsible for the delivery of business solutions from pre-sales to post implementation. Our teams of experts help organizations solve issues, create value, improve business performance, and work more effectively in an increasingly digital world.
The Services sales (Client Director) role works in an assigned region to drive the "booking" (deal closure consisting of a signed Statement of Work and Purchase Order) of the OpenText Professional Services business unit.
What You Are Great At
- Owning all Professional Services business in selected Key Accounts within your defined territory.
- Maintaining client relationships for all ongoing projects and drive recurring services bookings in your accounts.
- Having an exceptional ability to effectively negotiate and collaborate across teams and organizations will help you to succeed in this role.
- Supporting critical leadership reviews and presenting the status of the programs internally and externally.
- Continuously innovating and improving processes to optimize program efficiencies are key to being successful.
- Working with Opentext Account Manager to provide total solution (i.e Sales and Services) to the customer.
- Becoming the trusted advisor to the customer on implementation and management of Opentext products and solutions.
What It Takes To Excel
Your role as a Client Director in the Opentext PS organization encompasses the following responsibilities:
- Overachieve on personal bookings target every financial year, with the ability to grow your numbers year on year.
- Selling consulting services to both new and install base customers.
- Closing services sales, creating sufficient backlog that will allow the consulting team to drive revenue.
- Accurate forecasting, allowing the Opentext Services Delivery team to forecast backlog revenue.
- Ability to interact with business stakeholders on business requirements, demand prioritization, business case preparation and execution planning.
- Translate business opportunities, problems into solutions that have measurable outcomes.
- Workout the business process transformation/ improvement roadmap with the business stakeholders with clear goals and measurable targets.
- Overseeing the development of the project's costs and timelines and ensure they remain within the approved budget & schedule.
- Overseeing the risk and issue management of project related activities to ensure an acceptable level of risk.
- Work with the delivery team to create Work Breakdown Structures to support pricing estimates.