IT Service Delivery Manager - Corportate / Enterprise

Senior IT Service Delivery Manager (Corporate) and Senior IT Service Delivery Manager (Enterprise - OSS)

Location: Reading

Permanent -Mobile Telecoms

This role reports to Head of IT Delivery, and is a key role in ensuring the company can achieve it's strategy to be a service-oriented organisation, address evolving customer needs and drive excellence in customer experience. corporate IT systems, infrastructure and services must provide our teams with the means to drive this transformation.

Additionally, the recent pandemic event and its impact on our workforce has reinforced the need to provide distributed, secure, integrated, flexible and highly available corporate services and solutions to our expanding workforce.

Role Purpose:

This IT Service Manager (Corporate) role has the following key purposes:

Corporate Service Management. Proactively manage and drive the highest levels of service and value across corporate IT services.

This will be achieved through;

• maintaining alignment of corporate services to the IT Strategy,
• managing corporate IT managed service partners to clear SLAs and quality standards
• developing and driving a framework for assessing customer experience and service performance

Corporate Service Transition. Manage E2E the introduction of new services and the evolution of existing services to meet customer needs.

Corporate Outsourcing Management. Effective management of outsourced vendors and contracting for new services.

Requirements to be successful in Corporate role:

• Proven IT service management experience, preferably within the corporate domain, working with a range of IT vendors / partners in a large complex organisation.
• Demonstrable experience in managing outsourced partners by setting up and continuously evolving supplier contracts.
• Excellent business and personal communication (verbal & written) and presentation skills.
• A solid technical background and commercial awareness, so that the Service Manager can participate in both technical and commercial discussions
• Relationship building skills and the ability to empathise with customers and their needs
• Can conduct meaningful discussions around how IT Services are addressing customer needs
• Is proficient in customer management techniques: The complete sequence of activities required to manage customers' expectations from understanding customer requirements to capturing and delivering a service
• Well-developed problem-solving skills
• Good relationship building and influencing skills
• ITIL Foundation V3 or V4 qualification or equivalent experience

Requirements to be successful in Enterprise role:

Enterprise Service Transition. Manage E2E the introduction of new services and the evolution of existing services to meet customer needs.

Enterprise Outsourcing Management. Effective management of the outsourced MSP and contracting for new services.

• Proven IT service management experience, preferably within the Enterprise domain, working with a range of IT vendors / partners in a large complex organisation.
• Demonstrable experience in managing outsourced partners by setting up and continuously evolving supplier contracts.
• Excellent business and personal communication (verbal & written) and presentation skills.
• A solid technical background and commercial awareness, so that the Service Manager can participate in both technical and commercial discussions
• Relationship building skills and the ability to empathise with customers and their needs
• Can conduct meaningful discussions around how IT Services are addressing customer needs
• Is proficient in customer management techniques: The complete sequence of activities required to manage customers' expectations from understanding customer requirements to capturing and delivering a service
• Well-developed problem-solving skills
• Good relationship building and influencing skills
• telecoms experience useful
• ITIL Foundation V3 or V4 qualification or equivalent experience

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