Service Manager

Description

A Senior Service Manager is responsible for overseeing service operations, ensuring customer satisfaction, and managing service teams to meet organizational goals. This is a critical employee who oversees IT services' management and provision, ensuring they meet quality standards and business goals. In this role, you will manage issues and incidents, ensure smooth change implementation, and cultivate good connections with stakeholders and third parties. You will play a critical role in guaranteeing the effectiveness and dependability of IT operations, by establishing a solid framework for third party governance. 

The Role

• Continuously evaluates IT and Operations efficiency, processes, services, and existing technology effectiveness and interoperability to identify focus areas for improvement

• Seeks feedback from the internal stakeholders, agree and own the team’s Continual Service Improvement Plans (CSIPs)

• Documents and administers the IT Service Portfolio and Service Catalog, including service descriptions and the configuration management database (CMDB)

• Directly involved in strategic quality planning by developing corrective action and counter measures to operational quality issues

• Incident and Problem Management, Service Delivery Management, Budget Management, Stakeholder Management (Internal and External), Continuous Improvement

Qualifications

What you'll bring: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Management and/or an MBA is required

• Strong and extensive years of experience in a similar role within the financial industry or a complex international environment

• Experience with establishing oversight and governance with third party service providers for contract management and performance monitoring is required

• Familiarity with reporting software, ITSM tools like ServiceNow is strongly preferred.

• ITIL and/or PMP certified would be preferred

• Ability to think out of the box, solve problems, encourage innovation and manage change

• Actively promotes ideas, proposals, and influences strategy

• Excellent critical thinking and creative problem solving

• Ability to work independently, under own initiative and within a team

What we offer

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You'll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidate.helpdesk@wtwco.com