Service Desk Supervisor

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

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**Incident Manager**:

- Responsible for communicating, leading and managing all high severity outage situations.
- Assist in the Delivery and Execution of Staff Development/ Action Plans.
- Participate in design discussions for Operations tools and technology.
- Coach and mentor Service Desk Analysts on technical skills, call, and ticket quality etc.
- Ticket workflow delegation to the Service Desk Analysts.
- Work closely with other Managed Services team members to create/update process and Knowledge Base documentation for new and existing customers and communicate changes to the Service Desk teams.
- Identify gaps in process and procedure and initiate service improvement plans.
- Participate in internal Managed Services focused continual service improvement projects.
- Assist with the onboarding of new analysts.
- Lead morning operations call, and distribution of morning turnover as requested.
- Run daily reports as needed to support customer requirements.

**Success Characterstics**:

- The qualities of an effective team leader inspire the trust and respect of the team and stimulate production within the environment.
- Maintain emotional balance and self-control in dealing with difficult personnel situations.
- Possess strong verbal and written communication skills; be adept at communicating with all levels of technical and non-technical people.
- Respect and safeguard confidential information as required.
- Utilize negotiation skills to achieve results.
- Affinity for and successful experience with small to medium size business environments.
- Ability to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing work environment.
- Must be able to balance tasks back-to-back against specific timeframes.
- Great organizational skills.

**Supervises Service Desk Personnel**:

- Ensure work schedules for both teams are sufficiently covered for each workday.
- Reschedule personnel to cover for vacations, emergencies, and/or sick time.
- Conduct written warnings, as needed, when processes/policies are not followed.
- Attend performance review meetings with the Operations Manager as needed.
- Update the Operations Manager on any personnel issues that may arise.
- Represent AHEAD in a professional manner in all forms of communication with our customers.
- Ensure that daily issues of a complex scope receive the urgency and escalation necessary to support the overall business and customer support objectives.
- Ensure appropriate technical resources are assigned and incidents are being addressed in all ticket queues for Service Desk.

**Why AHEAD**:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

We understand that you have a life outside of work. That’s why we offer paid time off, paid company holidays, and a great benefits program including maternity/paternity leave and much more