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As a key member of the IT Operations leadership team, reporting to the VP of IT Operations, the Senior Manager of the global IT Service Desk manages an organization of advanced IT teams, consisting of over 50 IT professionals, located throughout the globe. The top priority is to empower associates with exceptional IT support on behalf of all our technology teams. A key success factor is maintaining strong relationships and a positive attitude with both business leaders and IT leaders; influencing their understanding of IT Operations and ensuring our IT services align with their business needs.
Job Responsibility:
Manage the Alerting and Scheduling team (Level 0) as they deliver 24x7 enterprise monitoring services
first-response capabilities to proactively detect, triage, escalate and coordinate global incidents and events
and maintain IT Operations Key Performance Indicator metrics
Manage the OneDesk team (Level 1) as they deliver high-quality, customer-focused front-line IT support for associates globally, ensuring timely intake, prioritization, resolution and escalation services
drive first-contact resolution and knowledge article creation
enforce SLA and KPI adherence
and continuously improve the customer experience through automation, AI, and process improvement
Manage the Advanced Application Support team (Level 2) as they deliver advanced, business-critical support for our enterprise applications, including production code deployment, configuration changes, data updates, troubleshooting complex application an integration issues, while closely coordinating with development, architecture and other teams to help ensure service stability, operational readiness and continuous improvement
Manage service introduction and optimization, coordinating the IT Service Catalog and adding new application service offerings
Measure and report SLA monthly actuals for various services via monthly scorecards and propose recommendations to improve service levels
Active voting member of the IT Change Approver Board
Play a key role in approval/challenge/denial of high-risk changes, expedited changes and overall change quality reviews
Control release coordination and increase visibility of the release windows
Manage communications to and with business relationship managers, business leaders, and business groups as necessary
Perform workload and resource management, conduct and oversee regular and annual personnel reviews, conduct interviews as necessary
Conduct daily reviews of metrics on open incidents, requests and tasks
Take a lead role in customer satisfaction discussions with business leaders
Maintain team performance metrics, produce reports and track work items
Oversee and guide the creation and documentation of internal policies, procedures and institutional knowledge
Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, related degree, or equivalent experience is required
Three years leadership experience required
Five years of experience with change management required
Strong understanding of ITIL practices is required, ITIL certification is highly preferred
Knowledge of the application support, operational practices and IT policies
Knowledge of IT support tools including Monitoring, Incident, Change, Configuration, Problem and Knowledge Management
Skilled in general relationship management
Skilled in the ability to review, scrutinize and mentor team members in the improvement of root cause analysis and implementation of lessons learned plans
Excellent troubleshooting skills
Proven customer support experience abilities in delivery of IT services
Ability to persuade other IT teams to the viewpoint of our business customers
Ability be an on-call escalation point for production support and scheduled off-hours/weekend work if/when required
Able to maintain a strong leadership position and composure in difficult situations
Desire to focus on and please the customer, ability to understand requests from the customer’s point of view
Commitment to high professional and ethical standards in a diverse workplace
Self-motivated and flexible
Nice to have:
SAP Basis management and SAP HANA experience is a plus
Enterprise leadership experience is a plus
Industry experience in pharma, life sciences, warehouse and/or manufacturing is a plus