Service Delivery Manager

Astreya•San Jose, CA

64d

About The Position

The Service Delivery Manager is a client facing role and requires that you establish and satisfactorily manage client and employee expectations. The role requires leadership, strong ability to multitask, prioritize, communicate, and direct a very diverse set of teams. The responsibilities range from interviewing, hiring, and managing personnel to perform day to day tasks, ensuring that work is performed as expected, with regular client communication on progress. The successful candidate will have the ability to manage and evolve existing services across multiple disciplines, assisting sales teams with the growth strategy. Scope: Works on issues of diverse scope where analysis of a situation or data needs evaluation of multiple factors, including a familiarity with current business trends. Follows processes and operational policies while selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Acts as advisor to subordinates to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems. Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements. May have budget responsibilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (B.S/B.A) from four-college or university and 8+ years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors, customers, and/or functional peer group managers, normally involving matters between functional areas, other company divisions or units, or customers and the company.
Must be able to lead a cooperative effort among members of a project team.
A track record of successfully delivering a range of complex, high profile IT projects.
Proven track record of implementing and leading improvements in project lifecycle.
Able to identify projects at risk and take appropriate action to recover, often working across divisional boundaries.
Passionate about the IT industry and how new technology can improve business outcomes.
Strong technical knowledge of enterprise IT, including but not limited to help desk, networking, ticket and incident management, AV/VC, and asset management.
Strong analytical, organizational, communication and presentation skills.
Highly adaptable with the ability to effectively manage multiple concurrent work streams.
Strong business acumen and the ability to provide operational, technical and financial oversight.
Proven leadership skills with the ability to motivate, lead, develop, direct and position people to work effectively in a team environment.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership to diverse operations teams
Implement, monitor and provide timely reports to customers on service delivery metrics
Implement personnel on-boarding, training, and service improvement activities, ensuring systems, methodologies, and procedures are in place and followed by each service team
Drive internal and client meetings covering delivery performance, service improvements, quality, and processes
Be accountable for the quality of service and performance; ensure future demand from growth and projects are understood and factored into capacity plans for all associated teams
Work closely with Business Development and Client Partner teams to support growth, including help with services content for Statements of Work, and development/transition to stronger managed services capabilities
Works with the SMEs and stakeholders to define the roadmap for any given product and translate this into user stories or RFPs depending on the build decision
Work closely with Recruiting to develop pipeline and process for hiring strong candidates and interview where necessary
Further, develop and maintain retention program and incentives for field employee satisfaction
Manage large projects or delivering the IT components of major projects to time, cost, quality and benefits realisation requirements
Assimilate, understand and manage problem solving and opportunities recognition in the context of IT Infrastructure and/or application change solution concept, solutioning, design and deployment in a major software services/hardware environment
Takes ownership for the resolution of highly complex issues and risks that have been escalated
Leads the collaborative, dynamic planning process – prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
Other duties as required. This list is not meant to be a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities assigned to this position

Benefits

Medical provided through Cigna (PPO, HSA, EPO options) / Medical provided through Kaiser (HMO option only) for California employees only
Dental provided through Cigna (DPPO & DHMO options)
Nationwide Vision provided through VSP
Flexible Spending Account for Health & Dependent Care
Pre-Tax Account for Commuter Benefit/Parking & Transit (location-specific)
Continuing Education and Professional Development via various integrated platforms, e.g. Udemy and Coursera
Corporate Wellness Program
Employee Assistance Program
Wellness Days
401k Plan
Basic Life, Accidental Life, Supplemental Life Insurance
Short Term & Long Term Disability
Critical Illness, Critical Hospital, and Voluntary Accident Insurance
Tuition Reimbursement (available 6 months after start date, capped)
Paid Time Off (accrued and prorated, maximum of 120 hours annually)
Paid Holidays
Any other statutory leaves, paid time, or other fringe benefits required under state and federal law