Global IT Helpdesk Supervisor - REF 1095

Interface Recruitment UK; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an IT Helpdesk System Supervisor to manage the Help Desk operations, ensuring users receive timely support. The role requires at least 5 years of experience in IT support, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and effective communication abilities. You'll supervise staff while enforcing technical standards and developing processes to enhance the IT support environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a fast-paced end-user IT support environment.
• Hands-on experience with helpdesk environment operations.
• Delivering a quality IT experience in line with ITIL best practices.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and report on day-to-day operations of the Help Desk.
• Manage help desk support staff and their daily activities.
• Provide management reports and ensure service levels are met.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Customer focus

Job description

The IT Helpdesk System Supervisor is required to oversee and report on the day-to-day operations of the global Help Desk environment and ensure that end users are receiving appropriate assistance in a timely manner.SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.Principal Duties, Responsibilities & Accountabilities:Responsibilities will include:

• Manage, maintain, and develop the IT Helpdesk environment (Freshservice)
• Provide management reports on help desk operations, ensuring that service levels are met, identify trends, and makerecommendations for service improvement.
• Oversee the help desk support staff’s daily activities ensuring timely and professional delivery of technical support, and callmanagement.
• Supervise and monitor all open tickets and identify overdue issues, providing resolution in a timely and effective manner.
• Enforce technical standards, systems, policies, and procedures.
• Provide guidance to the Global IT Support team relating to end-user support.
• Liaise with stakeholders in the business at both a technical and non-technical level, building positive working relationships.
• Ensure that auditable activities are carried out in a timely manner in accordance with their specified criteria, for example SOX controls etc.Duties will vary and be revised due to the nature of the IT Support environment (above is a guide and not a comprehensive list of responsibilities)

1. Essential Skills:
   • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a fast-paced end-user IT support environment
   • Hands on experience of operating a helpdesk environment, including call allocations, queue management, problem determination and prioritisation, escalations, general user support etc.
   • Delivering a quality IT experience in-line with ITIL best practice, and enhancing the functionality of an ITSM tool (experience of Freshservice is desirable but not essential)
   • Effective analytical and problem-solving skills
   • Able to effectively report on and present data appropriately based on the intended audience
   • Demonstratable experience of developing IT processes, workflows, and automation
   • Good time management skills

Core Behavioural Skills:

• • Strongly customer-focused, experienced in providing support to end users
  • Confident individual with good interpersonal skills, able to deal with people at all levels and communicate to users in a clear non-technical language

• Analytically minded, able to break down and understand information, and report on findings
• Ability to report on progress, timescales, outstanding and completed activities
• Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic business
• Good organisational skills, used to managing and prioritising own workload

Company Values Statement:We endeavour to create a work environment that reflects the culture of the company, and we encourage every member of our staff to embrace our commitment to be:

• Professional
• Quality Driven
• Goal Orientated
• Customer Focused
• Continuously Improving
• Flexible
• Open & Integrated