Service Manager - Managed Services
CurrentLeadership & Team Development:Lead a 15 member managed services support engineering team and an 18 member development team.Align team objectives with the organization’s service delivery strategy.Mentor and coach team members to enhance skills, careers, and performance.Project Management & Service Management:Oversee 6 simultaneous projects for UK and EU clients (1 development + 5 support).Act as a secondary escalation point for complex technical issues.Collaborate with the team to manage critical incident updates via ServiceNow, Jira, and "Critical Comms" emails.Provide regular client updates in daily standups and monthly service review presentations.Operational Excellence:Ensure SLAs and KPIs are consistently met or exceeded.Maintain accurate documentation in Confluence, including "Application Support Runbooks."Assist with managing service agreements, pricing sheets, revenue reports, and client invoicing.Support the management team in expanding client accounts and coordinating project tasks within scope, budget, and timeline.Process Improvement & Innovation:Foster a culture of continuous improvement, identifying opportunities for optimization, service enhancement, and cost reduction.Implement process changes and promote innovation with client approvals, adopting new technologies to benefit clients.Training & Quality Control:Identify training needs, organize skill-building sessions, and encourage team certifications.Implement industry best practices and quality control measures.Customer & Compliance Management:Address customer complaints and prepare RCA documentation for recurring issues, implementing preventative measures.Ensure compliance with security protocols and standards, support internal and external project and process audits, collaborating with the IT team on security measures and access control.