As a Service Delivery Manager at Made Tech, you will play a critical role in our mission to make public services better. You will be supporting 2-3 services in parallel and will help deliver and drive success, using a solutions focussed approach.
You will report to the Head of Managed Services or a Service Delivery Principal, and take responsibility for supporting a team. This includes onboarding new services and team members as required, managing and inspiring the team to produce high quality outcomes and collaborating with client stakeholders. This role will see you manage risks and issues that arise including live incidents, whilst remaining calm under pressure.
Service Delivery Managers find themselves working on a variety of different problems, are focussed on continuously improving both themselves and the team they lead, and take a data-driven approach to prioritisation and decision making.
Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, you will provide regular reports, manage your team’s capacity and measure success against contractual commitments such as SLAs and KPIs.
Finally, as a member of the Managed Service community, you will also be an active member of our community of practice (COP). This could be attending COP sessions to share learnings or writing blog posts alongside our marketing team.
Essential Skills
The below list describes specific competencies and behaviours that you’ll need in this role.
Competencies and Behaviours:
Demonstrated ability to multi-task and confidently prioritize for yourself and others, maintaining composure and making fast, sound decisions under pressure. Skilled in handling difficult client conversations, clearly articulating remediation plans to provide reassurance. Solution-focused and outcome-driven, consistently expressing confidence when faced with challenging situations.
Service Operations Management:
Expertly implement incident and problem management processes using best practices like ITIL or Agile Service Management. Coordinate incident resolution and root cause analyses, while following and advocating for governance, risk, and engagement processes to support continuous improvement. Manage change effectively to prevent scope creep and handle workflows using popular ticket management tools such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Desk, and Zendesk. Additionally, proficient in running and reporting on service transition plans for onboarding new services into a Managed Service team.
Team Leadership:
Proven ability to coordinate knowledge management across a multi-disciplinary team while effectively supporting and managing competing priorities. Skilled in balancing user needs and client strategy to manage a backlog of service and product improvements. Adept at taking ownership of team rotas and managing availability for shift-based members. Proactively communicates IT policies and procedures, ensuring effective and efficient use. Provides regular feedback to team members, supporting them in achieving their development goals.
Contract Management:
Expert in adhering to contractual obligations, tracking and reporting on agreed SLAs and VLAs. Proficient in conducting regular service reviews and reporting on performance using OKRs, KPIs, and CSAT. Collaborates effectively with user-centered design and product teams to develop bespoke client-focused value measures. Skilled in tracking team budget and capacity, forecasting upcoming workload, and performing comprehensive risk management activities.
Client Engagement:
Confidently act as the primary point of contact for customer escalations, developing and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders. Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver improvements, communicating effectively in both written and verbal forms.
Community and Personal Development:
Actively develop and grow your own skills by utilizing learning budgets and dedicated learning days, sharing your knowledge with colleagues. Support junior service delivery managers in developing new skills, even if they are not part of your core team. Contribute to Managed Service and Delivery Communities of Practice, sharing successes and failures to enhance methods, techniques, and technologies.