IT Manager Service Delivery
Job Summary
| Reports to | Vice President Operations and Engineering |
| Team | 30 delivery staff in Canada 25 overseas in India |
| Portfolio | Contracted ITO clients including a federally regulated financial institution |
| Location | Markham Ontario. On site five (5) days per week |
| Terms | Full time permanent. $90000 to $120000 per year plus a performance incentive of up to 10% of base salary. |
Technical and customer service delivery staff in Canada and the India office report to the Service Delivery Manager. This is a technical service delivery role in a managed IT services business. It is not a specialised project management or sales role.
- Onboarding: Ensure every new client transition from contract signature to steady state meets agreed targets for quality time and cost. Confirm documentation monitoring coverage access and runbooks are completed before a service goes live.
- Service levels: Maintain monthly service levels to meet committed targets in each client Master Services Agreement and Statement Of Work. Implement methods to minimise breaches; analyse and remediate every adverse incident with root cause and corrective action with an owner and a date.
- Incident management: Manage escalations client communication and updates while incidents are open and provide appropriate updates to clients and relevant stakeholders. Monitor problem management so that repeat incidents are eliminated.
- Profitability: Meet targets for account revenue growth gross margin staff utilization and productivity. Produce a monthly forecast of revenue cost and margin by account.
- Client relations: Meet every ITO client at least monthly and perform a formal service review with senior client stakeholders at least quarterly. Run at least one customer satisfaction survey annually per client and meet CSAT targets.
- Retention: Maintain a written health account for every client and plan contract renewals well in time with named risks owners and dates. Provide management early warning of any account at risk with evidence and a recovery plan.
- Growth: Identify additional scope within existing clients and work with the sales team to convert this to recurring revenue.
- Innovation: Work with the automation and security teams to put at least one process or service improvement into production every six months. Measured results will relate to costs quality efficiency or income.
- Staff: Manage Canadian and overseas service delivery staff. Streamline performance evaluations training and development and manage development and retention of high-quality employees. Fine tune performance-based incentive plans for front line Service Desk teams to make them more effective.
- Governance: Respond to client third party risk questionnaires audit requests and certification support requests. Performance is measured against four objectives: service quality financial performance innovation and staff development.
- A Bachelors Degree in Information Technology computer science engineering or business or equivalent.
- At least 12 years in IT infrastructure operations and management. Of these five or more years must have involved leading service delivery teams preferably with a managed IT services provider or technical business process outsourcing operation. Must have had full responsibility client management.
- Experience for meeting contracted service levels and targets for gross margin financial performance quality and innovation targets for multiple contracted clients.
- Direct people management of technical delivery staff preferably across multiple locations.
- ITIL certification at Foundation level or above. Entitled to work full time in Canada and located within reasonable commuting distance of Markham.
- Service delivery to multiple clients across financial manufacturing legal government and municipal institutions.
- Managing third party risk questionnaires and certification audits for clients.
- ITIL 4 PMP PRINCE2 7 Lean or Six Sigma Belt.
- Direct experience managing data centres and colocated infrastructure.
- Contract negotiations skills and experience. Ability to help craft master services agreements and statements of work and convert these into operational targets and staffing plans.
Please send in a detailed resume to emailprotected within seven days. This posting is for an existing vacancy and Pathway may at is discretion use artificial intelligence in screening applicants. We are an equal opportunity employer. Accommodation is available on request at any stage of the selection process.
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Disclaimer:Please note that this document is intended to provide an overview of job accountabilities and does not necessarily list all tasks related to the job.
Pathway Group of Companies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal treatment with respect to employment without discrimination because of race ancestry place of origin citizenship creed sex sexual orientation age marital status family status disability color or ethnic origin as required by the Ontario Human Rights Code.
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