Availability & Capacity Manager - MUST HOLD VALID SC CLEARANCE - Sailsbury - 5 months+
One of our Blue Chip Clients is urgently looking for an Availability and Capacity Manager.
Please find some details below:
Job Description: Your role
The responsibilities of the Availability & Capacity Manager include, but are not limited to:
Acting as the owner of Capacity Management, Availability & Demand Processes: Oversee and ensure adherence to policies, handling all related activities efficiently. Capacity Planning and Forecasting: Establish and maintain plans for current and future demands, track IT resource usage, and forecast needs considering service level agreements and other performance requirements. Working closely with the Digital Partnership monitoring teams, promptly identify capacity issues, provide capacity/availability trending information to allow for effective forecasting.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as a subject matter expert for capacity and availability related issues, collaborate with other Service Management departments, and ensure stakeholder resources are identified and coached.
Performance Improvement: Assess incidents and problems, implement appropriate capacity IT changes to enhance performance, and ensure service levels are met. Develop and propose scenarios for addressing capacity constraints and define associated costs, risks, and benefits of each.
Reporting and Relationship Management: Produce high-quality reports and manage associated actions, maintain and improve Problem Management documentation, build effective working relationships with customers and suppliers, and lead operational and management-oriented meetings. You can bring your whole self to work.
Your skills and experience
Ability to develop training material, schedule and facilitate training sessions for internal and external resources, mentoring skills. ITIL V4 Foundation certification required, further ITIL certifications are desired
Decent knowledge of computer systems, integration, and architecture concepts
Experience in various analytical/reporting techniques supported by understanding of statistics and quality management concepts.
Understanding of cross systems interrelations in context of the global business process
Understanding of Service Management Framework Quality documentation and report writing ability
General management skills (time management, communication skills and staff management), experience of managing meetings, and problem-solving skills desired
Experience of working with 3rd parties
Please send CV for full details and immediate interviews. We are a preferred supplier to the client.