Summary We are an award-winning IT Managed Services provider, based in London and have opened a fantastic opportunity for a career minded Service Desk Manager within one of our winning teams.With support from your Team Leader, you will lead, coach and inspire a team of service desk engineers providing them with clear KPI’s required to deliver a successful support service. The goal of the service desk manager is to achieve industry leading employee engagement scores whilst delivering world class customer satisfaction. An excellent leader, you will have experience in recruiting and managing technical staff from a variety of disciplines to produce results in a timely and efficient manner. You are required to develop efficient strategies, tactics and measures, to achieve service excellence. Primary Responsibilities -People Management-Customer escalations-Engineer escalations Responsibilities Successfully lead & manage the Service Desk Team, driving a culture of service excellence, continuous improvement and delighting our customers. Onboard new customers into Wanstor’s Service Desk ensuring a seamless support transition is delivered Line management of technical and team lead staff members, including 1-2-1’s, annual reviews, development and succession planning. Create and report on and improve key Service Desk performance metrics (ticket volume trends, first line resolution rate, SLA’s, response time, wait time, resolution time, customer satisfaction Ensure KPI’s set for Team Leaders and Technical staff are met on a daily basis, including time logging, tickets logged/resolved and customer satisfaction scores Ownership of P1 tickets and driving to resolution ensuring the customer is kept informed at all times, ensuring SLA’s and customer expectations are met. Working with the Project team to transition projects to Internal support services Ensure all required communication, training and documentation is established. Manage recruitment of engineers necessary to run a successful service desk effectively Proactively report service desk metrics, successes and area’s requiring attention to the senior management team Deliver continuous service improvement objectives set by the senior management team. Build and maintain exceptional relationships with customers based on trust. Robust and effective call volume management Contributing to the continuous improvement of the Service Department, its practices and processes, with emphasis on enhancing the customer experience through innovative thinking Reduce the number of interactions per tickets (Customer & Technician) Increase Knowledgebase participation across all teams SLA Improvement - Reduce the average ticket turnaround time by increasing both Fix and Response SLA’s Required Skills and Experience Experience as a Service Desk Manager with a proven record of continuously improving support services delivered to our customers A good understanding of ITIL and an ability to apply methods which improve the services delivered to our customers and improve the working environment of our engineering team Thorough knowledge of IT products and services enabling explanation of technical concepts IT support experience at a 2nd line level