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The Service Desk Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, performance, and continuous improvement of Millgate’s Service Desk function. The role ensures high-quality, consistent delivery of managed IT services, adherence to SLAs, and exceptional client experience.
Job Responsibility:
Lead, develop, and mentor Service Desk Engineers across all levels
Conduct regular one-to-ones, performance reviews, and development planning
Set and enforce expectations for ticket quality, communication standards, professional conduct, documentation discipline
Foster a high-performance, accountable, and collaborative culture
Support succession planning and team growth
Own end-to-end delivery of Service Desk operations
Ensure tickets are prioritised, assigned, and managed effectively in line with SLAs
Maintain adherence to ticket management standards, escalation procedures, communication expectations
Act as senior escalation point for high-priority incidents and client issues
Provide advice and technical expertise in sale of new products/services
Promote current and future proof security and backup practices
Drive consistency across Service Desk processes and workflows
Monitor KPIs and SLAs
Track and report on response/resolution times, ticket volumes, SLA performance
Identify trends and risks
Drive corrective actions
Take ownership of major incidents
Lead post-incident reviews and root cause analysis
Implement preventative measures
Refine escalation paths
Build and maintain strong client relationships
Work with Account Management and Services Sales teams
Drive continuous improvement initiatives
Document, standardise and audit processes
Support automation and tooling improvements
Collaborate with Professional Services, Technical teams, Sales and Account Management
Support onboarding of new clients into managed services
Requirements:
Proven experience in a Service Desk Manager or similar leadership role within an MSP environment
Strong knowledge of: Microsoft 365 / Azure environments, Networking fundamentals, Service Desk tooling (e.g. PSA, RMM systems)
Demonstrated experience: Leading and developing technical teams, Managing high-pressure incidents and escalations, Driving SLA/KPI performance
Nice to have:
Experience scaling service desk operations
Knowledge of automation, AI or Copilot within service environments
Experience contributing to service design and commercial alignment