Job Title: Connectivity Services Manager
Job Location: Cheltenham, UK
Job Location Type: Hybrid
Job Contract Type: Full-time
Job Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
Location: Cheltenham, UK (Hybrid working) Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, Discount scheme.
Role Overview
The Connectivity Services Manager will be responsible for overseeing the global connectivity network, ensuring seamless and efficient operation across the organisation. The post-holder will manage a dedicated team, overseeing network assets and maintaining the network infrastructure.
Your Objectives And Responsibilities Will Focus On…
* Managing and growing a team of skilled connectivity engineers, providing mentorship and development opportunities
* Coordinating with managed service providers to ensure all connectivity services meet the organisation’s standards and requirements
* Contributing to the design and selection of IT solutions, ensuring the meet functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance needs
* Leveraging technology to drive change and support business processes; assisting with integration and initial implementation, including testing and assurance
* Identifying, documenting and managing risks, issues and critical success factors requiring remediation
* Promoting and maintaining design standards and methodologies within the team and wider business
* Estimating costs and preparing business cases for IT solutions, considering infrastructure, development and support
Your Previous Experience Is Likely To Include….
* Extensive experience in Network Services, IT or a related field
* Demonstrable experience and ability in leading and developing a team of network professionals
* Mentoring, training and performance management
* Developing and executing strategic plans for network infrastructure
To be successful in this role you will…
* Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times
* Demonstrate excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills
* Possess a deep understanding of network protocols and technologies
* Show expertise in network designs, implementation and troubleshooting
* Possess strong vendor negotiation and relationship management skills, ensuring service quality and favourable terms
* Be proficient in using network monitoring tolls to optimise performance and identifying & resolving network bottlenecks
* Show skills in managing budgets and reducing costs without compromising quality, with the ability to prepare detailed cost estimates and business cases
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
Benefits
You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments .
We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.
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