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    Senior Service Delivery Manager - Manchester, United Kingdom - Made Tech

    Made Tech
    Made Tech Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Salary: £40,000 - £60,000 Location: Hybrid working in either Swansea, Bristol, Manchester, London. Support in applying If you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We're collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us. When you apply, we'll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates. As a Senior Service Delivery Manager at Made Tech, you will play a critical role in our mission to make public services better. Our Managed Service team is responsible for operating, maintaining and improving a wide range of services from life-saving services that support blue-light operations, to platforms that ensure the smooth running of government. This role reports into the Head of Managed Services. The role of a Senior Service Delivery Manager will support 4-5 services in parallel and requires a solutions focussed leader to drive success. Your role at Made Tech
    • Onboard new services and team members as required, managing and inspiring the team to produce high quality outcomes.
    • Manage your team's capacity and measure success against contractual commitments such as SLAs and KPIs
    • Manage risks and issues that arise, providing regular reports to both internal and external stakeholders.
    • Identify ways to improve and contribute beyond day-to-day delivery. This could be by participating in COP or supporting recruitment.
    What skills and experience are we looking for? The below list describes specific competencies and behaviours that you'll need in this role. Don't worry - we don't expect you to tick all of these when you join, we will work together to define learning and development objectives that help you meet these competencies on your way to promotion. Competencies and behaviours:
    • Ability to multi-task and confidently prioritise for yourself and others
    • Expressing confidence when faced with challenging situations
    • Make fast, sound decisions whilst under pressure
    • Handle difficult client conversations and clearly articulate remediation plans in a way that is reassuring
    • Solution focussed and outcome driven
    Service operations:
    • Implement incident and problem management processes using best practice such as ITIL or Agile Service Management
    • Coordinate and manage the resolution of major incidents and subsequent root cause analyses
    • Champion governance, risk and engagement processes and be responsible for others following the processes
    • Manage change using robust change management processes that prevent scope creep
    • Ability to manage workflows with popular ticket management tools such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Desk, Zendesk etc
    • Create, run and report on a service transition plan for onboarding a new service into a Managed Service team
    • Facilitate the creation of key work products such as runbooks, playbooks, business continuity/disaster recovery plans, security management plans and access management trackers
    Team leadership:
    • Coordinate knowledge management across a multi-disciplinary team
    • Support and manage competing priorities
    • Proactively identify and progress service and product improvements balancing user needs and client strategy
    • Take ownership of team rotas and manage availability for shift-based team members
    • Maintain and proactively communicate IT policies and procedures to ensure effective and efficient use
    • Demonstrate encouragement of high performers, to support them towards successful promotions
    • Provide regular feedback for team members and support them in producing development plans where appropriate
    Contract management:
    • Adherence and management of contractual obligations, including SLA management
    • Conduct regular service reviews and report on service performance using OKRs, KPIs and CSAT
    • Collaborating with user-centred design and product teams to develop bespoke client focussed measures of value
    • Manage team budget and capacity, and forecast upcoming workload
    • Demonstrate risk management activities including identification, assessment, mitigation, assessment and reporting to key stakeholders
    • Ability to track and calculate service credits on an ongoing basis
    Client engagement
    • Confidently act as the primary point of contact for customer escalations
    • Develop and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders
    • Work and collaborate with senior stakeholders to initiate long-lasting change to deliver improvements
    • Communicate effectively in both written and verbal communications
    • Produce high-quality reports that consider the context of the clients' objectives
    • Drives collaboration and breaks down barriers between conflicting views
    • Demonstrate tact and diplomacy when managing key stakeholders, both client and internal, across all levels
    Community development
    • Support junior service delivery managers, who may not be in your core team, to develop and gain new skills
    • Contribute to both Managed Service & Delivery Communities of practice
    • Share successes and failures with the wider community to support the evolution of ways of working, techniques, and technologies across Made Tech
    • Leverage knowledge and experience in service management to showcase Made Tech's capabilities externally
    Life at Made Tech We're committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it's like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice). Like many organisations, we use Slack to chat to each other. The Slack groups that have formed give an idea of the diversity within Made Tech. If you'd like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, let your recruitment agent or Made Tech Talent Partner know. The groups are:
    • antiracist-activists
    • disability
    • lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists
    • neurodiversity
    • parents-carers
    • women-in-tech
    Benefits: We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We're also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to. Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below: 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options ‍ Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.
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