Manager II

Years

1 Opening

Kochi, Trivandrum

Role Proficiency:

Owns overall support and provides expert consultancy to support team members and leads in the area of specialization; ensures process level and customer level compliance

Outcomes:

• Promote technical solutions which support the business requirements within the area of expertise

• Ensures IT requirements are met and service quality maintained when introducing new services; considering the cost effectiveness of proposed solution(s).

• Define and evaluate standards and best practices for application maintenance

• Collaborate with customer and internal stake holders by helping them in resolving issues and thus ensuring improved customer satisfaction

• Proactively suggest new technologies for improvements over the existing technology landscape

• Leads technical consultancy assignments which involve specialists from various disciplines; takes responsibility for the quality timely delivery and appropriateness of the team's recommendations

• Make recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness efficiency and delivery of services using technology and methodologies

• Implement and lead Application Support strategic projects consistent with long-range IT plans

• Ensure financial growth of the project/account by meeting the targeted EBITDA

• Able to mentor direct reports in a way that they can progress to the next level of growth

• Contribute to new RFPs SOW renewals and all contract related activities

• Encourage a culture of knowledge management and continual improvement in the team

• Manage the customer commitment Vs Project deliverable and identify plans to minimize the gap

• Communicate potential risks to the customer and identify proactive measures to mitigate the impact

• Optimize the capability of team to deliver a cost effective and sustained level of availability that enables the business to satisfy its objectives

• Handle resource requirements for support roles in the team

• Maintain the team resource pyramid and plan for resource rotation on regular time-frame

Measures of Outcomes:

• Timely publication of reports and metrics to stakeholders

• Handling of critical escalations

• Adhere to SLAs where applicable

• Customer Satisfaction Score (C-SAT/NPS)

• of non-compliance issues
  

• % of incident reduction based on permanent fixes/automation/utilities

• Productivity standard of the project

• Participation in Knowledge Transfer to ensure better grasp of product

• Completion of all mandatory training requirements

• Availability and performance of all supported applications per the defined standards

• Meet the financial targets for the project/account

Outputs Expected:

Efficiency:

• Drive the efficiency and effectiveness of the overall operations team

Interface with Customer:

• Proactively influence customer thought process

• Consider C-SAT/NPS Score for customer and support team performance

Reporting:

• Prepare distinct reports when and wherever required; providing "in the moment" status updates to senior leaders during incidents

Coordinate:

• Coordinate with UST leadership/customer stake holders/vendor partners to improve the relationship of the engagement

Develop Strategies:

• Develop strategies to improve the revenue of the project/account through new resource additions/new engagements/extension of existing contracts

Innovative Value-adds:

• Responsible for identifying and ensuring innovative value adds are created to benefit the project/customer/organization and deliver significant financial savings

Certifications:

• Forecast the roadmap for future technical certifications

Manage Project:

• Oversee and taking ownership of overall operational aspects of support project

Manage knowledge:

• Consume and contribute to project related documents
  
  share point
  
  libraries and client universities

• Contribute to sharing knowledge
  
  upskilling in TICL
  
  GAMA etc

• Mentoring and training within the account and the organization.

Team:

• Ensure the overall team is engaged and motivated through innovative ways; appropriately rewarded for the same (through USTAR
  
  other platforms).

• Evaluating and verifying associate performance against goals and quantitative expectations Identifying and ensuring team development programs

Complex Projects:

• Manage the activities of a significant or complex project or portfolio of projects. Accountable to the program manager or portfolio manager for the delivery and quality of deliverables

Skill Examples:

• Ability to provide expert opinions to Business Problems

• Strong organizational documentation metric and trend analysis reporting skills and desire for continuous process improvements

• Experience working with distributed teams in different time-zones

• Strong commitment to quality and engineering excellence

• Ability to take on new challenges and explore new technology/tools

• Ability to co-ordinate among multiple teams and bring out the best of team work

• Ability to handle critical customer escalations and manage under highly stressful situations

• Working independently under pressure the ability to manage changing and competing priorities with minimal oversight.

• Excellent communication skills keeping all stakeholders updated with issue progress and updates

• Able to work in a high paced dynamic and culturally diverse environment

• High level of commitment initiative enthusiasm and vision

• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills

• Create and articulate impactful project presentations

• Drive important customer relationship conversations; accountable for the team

• Ability to work under pressure determine dependencies risks facilitate planning and handle multiple tasks

• Build confidence with the Customers by meeting the deliverables in time with quality

• Ability to contribute to Idea and innovations

Knowledge Examples:

• Deep level proficiency in the specialist area

• Appropriate software programs / modules

• Able to give knowledge transitions to the team as required
• Experience in supporting enterprise customers
• Provide estimates for candidate enhancement and defect work to be included in release
• Operating Systems and software platforms
• Integrated development environment (IDE)
• Agile methods
• Knowledgebase of customer domain and sub domain where problem is re solved
• Understanding of new tools/techniques/scripting languages in the industry
• Management Certification in relevant area (PMP/Prince Certification/CSM)
• Understanding of ITIL Standards

Additional Comments:

Manager IT Operations About HealthProof At HealthProof, you will join a fast paced, growing company in our mission to reshape the future of health insurance through significantly reducing administrative costs and building better healthcare experiences for our health plans customers and their members. By creating a modern, cloud based, Best-In-Class core administration ecosystem, we have made healthcare more affordable and helped our health plans operate more efficiently. Through member and provider touchpoints with less friction, we have created real impact for member. HealthProof is run by leaders with strong health plan and technology background with a startup mindset and an environment of support where individual growth is nurtured. You will be supporting our proven core admin solutions and business process-as-a-service (BPaaS) operations to provide transparency, improve operational efficiency, break down operational barriers to scale and drive strategic growth. The Manager IT Operations position will be instrumental in planning, coordinating and streamlining operational needs for customer facing technology delivery operations, guided by HealthProof's values. The person in this role will manage a support team to provide great customer experience and ensure service SLA's. Key responsibilities will be to help develop, improve service management portfolio for customer implementation. The person in this role will report to the Director of Delivery, manage and co-ordinate activities across a geographically dispersed team. As a Manager IT Operations at HealthProof, you will be accountable for the following:
• Manage operational excellence for technology delivery
• Timely generation of SLA/ Operational reports to customers and management
• Driving issue resolution and root cause analysis for incidents
• Manage day to day production support for a mid-size HealthPlan including support of core administrative systems (enrollments, claims, adjudication and payments), surrounding applications/products and downstream and upstream vendors
• Driving customer calls and priorities
• Prioritize daily operational events and issues
• Managing incidents in the service management systems like JIRA/Service Now.
• Manage change and issue resolution activities with network, middleware, hardware, OS, DB, and external application groups
• Plan system maintenance and upgrade events across multiple vendors
• Customer escalation resolution
• Project staffing
• Define improved methods that create ease and consistency
• Coordinating with offshore teams and leadership
• Available for on-call support after hours and weekends
• Comply with the organization's Code of Conduct; all regulatory and contractual requirements; organizational policies; procedures; and internal controls. You bring:
• 6+ years' experience managing a mid to large size customer facing production support environment
• 5+ years Informatica / Informatica Cloud experience highly desirable
• Strong experience with service management, SLA tracking and operational reporting to customers and management
• Experience managing projects and tasks
• Strong communication skills with peers, customers, and partners
• Experience in setting up processes using service management tools, Preferably Service Now and Jira
• Experience managing health of production application environments
• Experience working in a technical support role in complex architecture environment
• Experience working with Vendors
• Experience working in offshore model
• Experience managing tasks and deliverables
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint and presentation skills
• Experience with SQL required
• Experience with Cloud AWS/GCP desirable
• Experience with SOAP, EDI desirable
• Experience ETL processing desirable
• Understanding of ITIL practices and software delivery
• Practical knowledge of working with SOWs, SLAs, and Change Requests
• Ability to foster partnerships and a shared sense of responsibility toward goals
• Strong/proven customer focus
• Capability to approach problems as challenges
• Strong planning and coordination skills
• Bachelor's degree or higher in business or technical field or commensurate experience in the field
• Work experience in delivery management and customer partner or account interaction is a must
• Experience working in an onshore/offshore model is a must
• Experience working with SaaS providers and HealthEdge applications is a plus

Healthcare,Production Support,Service Management,Project Management

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world's best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients' organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.