Service Delivery Shift Lead

As a key member of the DTS IT Service Delivery team, the Service Delivery Shift Lead is responsible for:

• Proactively managing the support of the IT estate and end user services across all global locations where Control Risks operates.
• Working as part of a 24 by 7 support capability, to provide a seamless service to globally dispersed end users
• Working as part of Enterprise Technology Services to support and protect the company's electronic assets, irrespective of region.
• Working with key members of the business to feed new requirements into the IT business partner team and ensure the overall IT needs of the business are met from a service perspective.

This role requires excellent communication and people management skills as well as the ability to work across regions with peers and colleagues as a team player. Knowledge and experience of working within ITIL-aligned service environments is required.

Role tasks and responsibilities

IT Service

• Owns and manages incidents, major incidents, service requests and problems with ensuring all information is updated accurately on the IT Service Management toolset (ServiceNow), and regular updates are made to the business in an appropriate manner.
• Accountable for producing post major incident reports for internal management and audit compliance. Flags issues with global vendors, as necessary.
• Manages IT Security incidents as per the IT Security process, in cooperation with our internal IT Security team and other vendors as required.
• Acts as the champion of IT customer service ensuring services run and perform adequately from their devices; flag any work that requires to be resolved to the correct resolving team and assists in prioritizing the workload.
• Proactively manages IT Service, ensures any service trends are raised as problem tickets and actively participates within the problem management process, with the goal of driving down the number of overall number of incidents.
• Proactively ensures that the incidents and requests raised by end users, are followed up on, in line with internally agreed SLAs, regardless of support queue ownership.
• Ensure all process data sets including "Joiners, Movers, Leavers," asset register, etc., are maintained and remain accurate, for all global locations.
• Establishes excellent relationships with peers on a global level, ensuring support services are provided consistently to the business on a global basis.
• Implements and adheres to Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Collaboration with resolver groups to address SLA performance shortfalls.
• Where necessary, partakes in audit review meetings.

Strategy

• Actively contributes to IT Service strategy and design, actively ensure the whole team works and contributes towards the Service Delivery roadmap.
• Actively contributes towards the internal service delivery continuous improvement initiatives to drive operational and business improvements. Where applicable, clearly demonstrates return on investment on efficiency opportunities.

People management and communication

• Manages IT service delivery staff on shift, including mentoring, developing technical skills and "soft" skills, performing objective setting, 1:1 meetings, performance management and growth.
• Ensures all support staff adhere to internal ITSM processes and promotes ITIL best practices.
• Accountable for the optimal operation of service, delivering effective and efficient high value/quality IT services to the business across all business functions.
• Contributes to the IT Service reporting; performance metric reporting, outlining what has gone well and what needs to be improved as part of structured weekly and monthly reporting.
• Accountable to produce the daily shift handover notes.

Essential

• Experience of running a global support team, preferably as part of a 24 by 7 setup.
• Been part of a global IT support team that operates as a single "business unit" irrespective of organizational structures.
• Experience of managing shift workloads, working with local and regional resource.
• Experience of operating/supporting multi-national/global customer base.
• Service management experience within global, large-scale, and diverse cultural environments.
• Has the skills to build trust and good relationships within the business.
• Understands basic financial management and can articulate IT requirements in business language.
• Good level of understanding of "core" Microsoft Office 365 productivity tools including Office, Teams, Exchange, etc.
• Exposure to managing IT environments which are either outsourced or where the services are provided remotely, e.g., from a data center in another region.
• Must have an excellent understanding of standard IT security tools and systems.
• Previous IT service reporting and analysis experience.
• Experience with interfacing to senior management.
• Experience of developing governance practices to track and measure the quality of services.

Preferred

• Experience in supporting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications.
• Exposure to contemporary WAN and LAN services and devices.
• Good understanding of emerging technologies.