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Service Delivery Manager - 3rd level support - English language

Job description
- Overall ownership of Service delivered to the assigned customer across all involved competencies
- Primary point of contact for service levels, escalations and issues for customer
- Owner of overall customer relationship and customer satisfaction within the Delivery Centre
- Deliver cost effective, standard customer measurements in line with contracted commitments
- Support Account planning/strategy
- Support Proposals for assigned account including qualification of new business opportunities
- Responsible for Security and audit compliance, reviews & actions
- Provide input to and help deliver transition plans (from a customer deliverable point of view)
- Provide agreed IBM/business entity with single point of contact into SM/SD team
- Provide leadership and direction to the Service Delivery teams
- Own level of service quality and Service Delivery performance
- Continually identify ways to reduce costs of delivering the services
- Monitor and manage service delivery performance of Subcontractor/third party
- Own Disaster Recover plan for the account
- Support DPE/BOM and PE in the management of contract change and service related issues
- Manage service to contract, (SLAs, dates and performance measures)
- Support contract development/DOU’s with service providers (sub-contractors/third party providers/customer)
- Recommendations for areas of contract changes that can improve service, lower costs or improve customer satisfaction
- Provide cost management input to account management team
- Work with Business Office to monitor Claim cross charging accuracy
- Provide appropriate account specific information to service suppliers
- Ensure communications on day-to-day service operations are delivered to appropriate customer staff
- Communicate service interruption, root cause analysis, action plans, capacity/performance trend analysis and issues to agreed IBM/business contacts (as agreed with DPE/PE)
- Project Prioritization, Project delivery as required
- Manage service within MIR process
- Develop service action plans based on root cause analysis, trends and customer inputs
- Availability management including Backup and Disaster Recovery Management
- Review and manage capacity to agreed service contract with supplier groups
- Provide/manage continuous improvement of all services provided and identify alternatives/options to these services
- Participate in process improvement with the agreed IBM/business areas
- Provide direction, input to strategy goal setting and prioritization for Service Delivery teams
- Provide timely and accurate Internal reporting
- Ensure that IMACs and Service Requests are actioned in line with contract commitments

Requirements:

- Minimum 3 years experience in a customer-facing managerial role (responsibility towards the customer for service or project delivery)
- Fluent English, spoken and written
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to negotiate in a diplomatic way; pursue IBM interests in a win-win mode with the customer
- Ability to operate effectively in a stress environment with conflicting priorities
- Self-driven individual fully capable or organizing his/her own work independently
- Strong time-management and self-organization skills
- Ability to calm down emotions (self and customers‘) and focus on issue resolution
- ITIL Foundation certification or COBIT
- Project Management Experience
- Good IT overview
- Awareness of finance (cost) control
Required
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • At least 2 years experience in Service Delivery Managment
  • English: Fluent

Preferred
  • Master's Degree
  • At least 3 years experience in Service Delivery Managment


Additional information
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Service Delivery Manager - 3rd level support - English language