Here we have a great opportunity to join our team as an Availability & Capacity Manager! As an Availability & Capacity Manager, you will ensure the efficient and effective management of IT resources to meet current and future business demands. Your primary responsibilities include overseeing the Capacity, Availability, and Demand Processes, aligning IT capacity with business requirements. The scope of this role in service management is to ensure management of the Capgemini account function is achieved. You will collaborate with stakeholders and our extensive high-profile client network to forecast future needs, address capacity constraints, and enhance performance through proactive problem management.
This role is fully onsite 5 days a week in Salisbury.
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).
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.
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 with 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 and understanding of Service Management Framework.
* 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.
Your security clearance
To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
What does ‘Get The Future You Want’ mean for you?
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications, and much more.
Why you should consider Capgemini
Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs.
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