OCCNOC Team Lead

The OCC/TOC Team Lead is a key leadership role within Elements Global Technology Operations Centre (TOC). This position is responsible for driving operational excellence and ensuring the consistent high-quality support of critical IT services across the organisation. The role focuses on people leadership managing developing and empowering a team of TOC Analysts while overseeing real-time monitoring incident response and service availability across Elements global infrastructure.

Acting as a central point of coordination within the TOC environment the OCC/TOC Team Lead ensures timely detection escalation and resolution of operational issues and maintains strong stakeholder relationships across Technology and the wider business.

The position requires varied shift cover: 08:00 - 16:00 and 09:00 - 17:00 and may require support for weekend business activity. The role may require out-of-hours on-call escalation support.

The OCC/TOC Team Lead reports directly to the Global Head of Service Management

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership & Team Management

• Lead mentor and develop a team of TOC Senior Analysts and Analysts ensuring high performance accountability and continuous growth.
• Conduct performance management including objective setting monitoring coaching and formal appraisals.
• Foster a positive collaborative and high-performing team culture aligned with Element values.
• Manage shift coverage and staffing to maintain operational support.
• Address workload distribution prioritisation and team wellbeing ensuring balanced and sustainable operations.
• Manage conflict effectively and support a psychologically safe environment for all team members.

Operational Excellence

• Oversee real-time monitoring of critical infrastructure applications and network environments ensuring rapid response to alerts and incidents.
• Ensure analysts follow established SOPs KB articles and escalations maintaining service availability and rapid issue resolution.
• Drive consistency and quality in remote hands and eyes support across multiple regions.
• Identify service-impacting issues validate customer impact and escalate to SMEs and engineering teams as required.
• Ensure adherence to Elements Incident Major Incident and Change Management processes and support Major Incident Managers during critical events.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams during incidents to ensure timely and effective resolution.
• Process Reporting & Continuous Improvement
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives by identifying trends gaps and automation opportunities.
• Support the seamless onboarding of new business units and services into the TOC operational model.
• Maintain and enhance operational reporting ensuring regular SLA and performance updates are delivered to management.
• Contribute to Post-Incident Reviews by ensuring effective participation accountability and follow-through.
• Collaborate closely with the Global Head of Service Management and regional leads to evolve TOC capabilities and deliver best-in-class operational support.

Vendor & Stakeholder Engagement

• Manage relationships with third-party vendors and partners ensuring accountability timely support and appropriate escalation.
• Attend monthly vendor service reviews to contribute insights on performance incidents and improvements.
• Build strong working relationships with technical and business stakeholders to maintain trust and confidence especially during high-impact events.
• Governance & Compliance
• Ensure compliance with Elements Purpose Mission Vision Values and technology policies.
• Maintain high levels of documentation quality operational discipline and audit readiness.

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Experience & Knowledge Required

• Minimum of 5 years people manager experience within a high-pressure NOC/TOC Command Centre or Operations environment.
• Solid understanding of ITIL principles and structured operational processes.
• Hands-on experience using ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow.
• Proven ability to manage customer expectations and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and lead under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to manage conflict and coach team members through complex situations.
• Knowledge of voice and data networking (LAN WAN routing protocols switches routers).
• Knowledge of cloud technologies including AWS Azure and Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of enterprise technologies such as Active Directory DNS DHCP VPN Windows OS SQL Virtualisation Citrix Wireless technologies etc.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (e.g. BigPanda Zabbix etc.).

Essential Skills & Certifications

• Experience in Operations or TOC environment where observability response and incident management are critical.
• Familiarity with Halo or similar ITSM tools.
• Technology-related degree or higher-level qualification.
• ITIL v3 or v4 Foundation certification.

At Element we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming the worlds most trusted testing partner.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age disability ethnic origin gender marital status race religion responsibility of dependents sexual orientation or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by the employer or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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