Service Delivery Manager - Canada

Cubic Corporation • Burnaby, BC

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About The Position

The Service Delivery Manager (SDM) is the single point of accountability and customer success leader for all services delivered by Global Services into a designated customer program(s). The role is responsible for ensuring that services delivered by Global Services consistently achieve customer outcomes, contractual commitments, and long-term value realization. As the primary operational and success partner to the customer, the SDM orchestrates service delivery across Customer Contact Centers, Technology & Service Operations, Financial Services, and the Field Services Center of Excellence to deliver a cohesive, outcome-driven service experience. The role balances operational excellence with proactive customer engagement, ensuring SLA performance compliance, financial health discipline, operational stability, and continuous improvement, while serving as the primary operational interface between the customer and Global Services strengthening trust and partnership over multi-year transit programs. This is a senior program-level leadership role responsible for driving delivering reliable, measurable and commercially sound service performance across multi-year transit programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, IT, or related discipline
• 10+ years in service delivery, managed services, customer success or mission-critical operations
• Proven experience leading cross-functional, matrix teams
• Strong ITIL foundation (Incident, Problem, Change, SLA governance)
• Demonstrated financial acumen and cost management experience
• Experience operating in long-term, contractual operating environments
• Experience in global, matrixed organizations.

Nice To Haves

• Transit, payments, or regulated environment experience is preferred
• Exposure to PCI DSS, ISO 27001, or similar compliance frameworks advantageous

Responsibilities

• Act as the single point of accountability for customer success across all operational services delivered into the program.
• Orchestrate cross-functional teams across Contact Center, Technology & Service Operations, Financial Services, and Field Services, creating a unified service experience for the customer.
• Establish structured service governance, align operational priorities with the Assistant General Manager and customer stakeholders, and ensure clear ownership of performance commitments, escalations, and outcomes.
• Work closely with Field Services Supervisors to translate operational needs into field execution plans, including incident response, preventive maintenance, device repair, and on-site troubleshooting.
• Own performance against all contractual SLAs and KPIs, including availability, response and resolution times, backlog management, and incident effectiveness, maintaining a clear focus on customer impact and experience.
• Proactively monitor service performance, ensure disciplined incident, problem, and change management, and lead cross-functional root cause analysis to eliminate recurring issues.
• Prioritize initiatives that improve reliability, availability, and customer confidence, while providing transparent, outcomes-based reporting to customers and executive leadership.
• Manage cost-to-serve performance, ensure delivery of recurring milestones tied to revenue and cash, and actively work to reduce service-related abatements.
• Identify efficiency and optimization improvements that improve margin while maintaining or improving customer experience, holding workstream owners accountable for execution.
• Oversee major incident coordination, forward change scheduling, and operational readiness across service functions with a customer-first mindset.
• Ensure that service changes are planned and executed in alignment with contractual commitments and operational risk controls.
• Escalate appropriately to Engineering and Services Centers of Excellence to drive long-term remediation, shifting the organization from reactive resolution to proactive customer success enablement.
• Act as the voice of the customer within Global Services.
• Actively capture customer feedback, sentiment, performance insights, and risk indicators to drive measurable improvement.
• Strengthen customer relationships through clear communication, reduce escalation cycles, and promote continuous improvement initiatives that enhance customer satisfaction and long-term partnership value.
• Ensure services are fully prepared to support deployments, transitions, system enhancements, and program expansions.
• Align enablement, training, and service capacity planning with customer needs, ensuring continuity, stability and confidence throughout the lifecycle of the program.

Benefits

• The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
• We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
• We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior