Content Practice Manager (South Africa) at OpenText

Job description

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Content Practice Leader for EMEA & Americas, the role is responsible for leading and continuing to build out OpenText’s Content Practice in South Africa. The role requires a sound knowledge of OpenText technology, experience in running a team of consultants, and strong communication skills across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders; especially OpenText Sales/Pre-Sales, Clients and Sub-contracting partners.

Focusing on delivery excellence, team motivation and customer success, the Content Practice Manager is in a pivotal role in the territory for driving a thriving Content-centric business.

You Are Great At

• Leadership of the South African Content delivery team
• Driving team success, including:
• Maximising team utilization
• Ensuring delivery quality
• Implementing best practice
• Team enablement & certification
• Play an integral role in assisting profitable business development in the South African market
• Engage with key customers
• Oversee the portfolio of Content-centric projects in South Africa
• Hiring

What It Takes

• Experience in leading a technical team
• Experience in complex software project delivery
• Self motivation
• Experience in Content Management technologies & solutions
• Good networking and relationship building skills
• Commercially astute
• University degree in computer science, informatics or comparable education in IT or information management
• A minimum of 7 years Consulting experience
• Deep background on the functional side of the OpenText product portfolio
• Proven experience and competencies with Services Sales
• Strong communication and presentation skills as well as commercial understanding
• Fluent in spoken and written English

At OpenText we understand and value diversity in our employees and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire the best talent regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, sex, age, veteran status or sexual orientation. We draw on our diversity and collective genius as we continue to shape a better future for our customers and be the Best Place to Work for our employees- nothing is off the table at OpenText. If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process please email