Service Delivery Director

Position Overview

The Service Delivery Director is a client-facing role responsible for establishing and satisfactorily managing client and employee expectations. This leadership position requires a strong ability to multitask, prioritize, communicate, and direct diverse teams. Responsibilities span from personnel management (interviewing, hiring, managing daily tasks) to ensuring work is performed as expected, with regular client communication on progress. The successful candidate will manage and evolve existing services across multiple disciplines and assist sales teams with growth strategy.

Scope

Directs and controls the activities of a broad functional area through department managers within the company. Works with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives. Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth company knowledge.

Your Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to diverse operations.
• Implement, monitor, and provide timely reports to customers on service delivery metrics.
• Implement personnel on-boarding, training, and service improvement activities, ensuring systems, methodologies, and procedures are in place and followed by each service team.
• Drive internal and client meetings covering delivery performance, service improvements, quality, and processes.
• Be accountable for the quality of service and performance; ensure future demand from growth and projects are understood and factored into capacity plans for all associated teams.
• Work closely with Business Development and Client Partner teams to support growth, including help with services content for Statements of Work, and development/transition to stronger managed services capabilities.
• Work with the SMEs and stakeholders to define the roadmap for any given product and translate this into user stories or RFPs depending on the build decision.
• Work closely with Recruiting to develop pipeline and process for hiring strong candidates and interview where necessary.
• Further, develop and maintain retention program and incentives for field employee satisfaction.
• Manage complex and/or large projects or delivering the IT components of major projects to time, cost, quality, and benefits realization requirements.
• Assimilate, understand, and manage problem-solving and opportunities recognition in the context of IT Infrastructure and/or application change solution concept, solutioning, design, and deployment in a major software services/hardware environment.
• Takes ownership for the resolution of highly complex issues and risks that have been escalated.
• Leads the collaborative, dynamic planning process – prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.
• Other duties as required.

Required Qualifications/Skills

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S/B.A) from a four-college or university and 10+ years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Builds and strengthens relationships with executives and/or major customers.
• A track record of successfully delivering a range of complex, high-profile IT projects.
• Proven track record of implementing and leading improvements in project lifecycle.
• Able to identify projects at risk and take appropriate action to recover, often working across divisional boundaries.
• Passionate about the IT industry and how new technology can improve business outcomes.
• Strong technical knowledge of enterprise IT, including but not limited to help desk, networking, ticket and incident management, AV/VC, and asset management.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and presentation skills.
• Highly adaptable with the ability to effectively manage multiple concurrent work streams.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to provide operational.

Employment Type

Full time

Salary

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Location Type

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