IT Operations Centre Manager 24 / 7

ASDA; Leeds; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Company pension

Car allowance

Colleague discount

Wellbeing services

Job summary

Asda is seeking a Service Operations Manager to be the senior on-shift leader in the IT Command Centre in Leeds. You will ensure real-time health, stability and performance of technology services during all shifts, including nights and weekends.

You will manage incidents, major incidents, monitoring, and supplier engagement while delivering clear communications to leadership and stakeholders. This on-site role requires rotating 24/7 shifts and close collaboration with internal teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading 24/7 IT operations or NOC/Command Centre environments.
• Strong Major Incident Management experience, including on-call/on-shift MIM.
• Deep understanding of ITIL 4 practices—Incident, Problem, Change Enablement, Monitoring & Event Management, Service Continuity.
• Ability to make quick, high-stakes decisions under pressure and ambiguity.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
• Experience holding partners and suppliers to SLA delivery.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior on-shift decision-maker for all technology operations.
• Lead the IT Command Centre team during shifts, monitoring analysts and responders.
• Chair stand-ups, set priorities, owns handovers and next steps.
• Maintain real-time situational awareness across critical services, including overnight and peak trading windows.
• Own Major Incident Management and drive rapid restoration with suppliers.
• Oversee monitoring dashboards; identify gaps and drive continual improvement.
• Ensure overnight processes and batch runs are monitored and exceptions handled.
• Champion a culture of detecting issues before customers are affected.

Skills

24/7 IT operations

Major Incident Mgmt

ITIL 4 practices

Decision making under pressure

Stakeholder communication

Vendor/supplier management

Monitoring tools

ITSM tooling (ServiceNow)

Tools

Dynatrace

Splunk

Grafana

ServiceNow ITOM

Job description

Job Title

IT Operations Centre Manager 24/7

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours per Week

38.5

Salary

Competitive Salary plus benefits

Category

End User Support

Closing Date

17 November 2026

We are looking for multiple Service Operations Managers to join us. As the Service Operation Manager, you would be the senior operational leader on shift in the IT Command Centre, accountable for the real-time health, stability and performance of technology services during their shift period - including overnight, weekends and peak trading events.

The role ensures that incidents are detected, triaged and resolved quickly, that major incidents are managed decisively, and that the customer, colleague and business impact of any disruption is minimised.

This is an on-site (Leeds, West Yorkshire) based role and involves working rotating shifts to cover 24/7.

What You’ll Love

• Act as the senior on-shift decision-maker for all Technology operational matters during the shift.
• Lead the IT Command Centre team on shift, including monitoring analysts, incident responders and duty roles.
• Chair shift stand-ups and checkpoint calls, ensuring clear priorities, ownership and next steps.
• Maintain real-time situational awareness across all critical services, particularly during overnight batch, replenishment, and early-morning trading readiness windows.

Incident & Major Incident Management

• Act as the on-shift Major Incident Manager, working alongside our partner to drive rapid restoration of service.
• Make judgement calls on escalation — waking senior leaders, engaging suppliers, invoking service continuity plans.
• Own customer, colleague and business impact assessment during incidents, ensuring the right level of response.

Monitoring & Event Management

• Ensure monitoring tools and dashboards are actively used and events acted upon promptly.
• Identify noise, false positives and monitoring gaps and feed them into continual improvement.
• Ensure overnight batch, EOD/SOD processes, replenishment jobs and store opening readiness are monitored and any exceptions handled proactively.
• Champion a "detect before customer detects" culture within the shift team.

Supplier & Partner Oversight

• Hold suppliers to account for response times, quality of engagement and SLA delivery during the shift.
• Escalate supplier performance issues into the daily governance cadence.
• Ensure supplier-led incidents are managed to Asda's standards.

Change & Release Oversight

• Provide shift oversight of in-flight changes and releases, particularly overnight deployment windows.
• Make go / no-go / rollback decisions where changes threaten service stability.
• Ensure failed or aborted changes are documented, communicated and handed over cleanly.

Communication & Stakeholder Management

• Provide clear, concise and timely communications to leadership, business stakeholders and impacted teams.
• Ensure a clean, structured handover to the incoming shift and to daytime leadership.

Continual Improvement

• Identify operational pain points, recurring issues and process weaknesses unique to the shift environment.
• Feed insights into Problem Management, Change Enablement and Practice Owners.
• Contribute to SOPs, runbooks and knowledge articles
• Drive shift-level improvements in monitoring, automation and toil reduction.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience leading 24/7 IT operations, NOC or Command Centre environments.
• Strong Major Incident Management experience, including as on-call/on-shift MIM.
• Deep understanding of ITIL 4 practices — particularly Incident, Problem, Change Enablement, Monitoring & Event Management, and Service Continuity.
• Comfortable with high-pressure decision-making under ambiguity and time constraints.
• Excellent communication skills — able to switch between technical detail and executive summary.
• Strong supplier management experience, holding partners to account for delivery.
• Working knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, ServiceNow ITOM).
• Experience with ServiceNow or comparable ITSM tooling as an operational user and leader.

Working Conditions

• 24/7 rotating shift pattern, typically including:
  • Day shifts
  • Night shifts
  • Weekends
  • Bank Holidays and key trading events
• Based on-site in the IT Command Centre
• Expected to participate in peak trading readiness and major event coverage, which may require flexing shift patterns

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
• Company Car allowance of £8000
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves