Lead Technician - French Speaker

ConvaTec Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading medical solutions company as a Lead Technician, providing high-quality IT support to customer service teams and distribution centers in the UK and France. This role requires strong technical skills and fluency in French and English. You will be responsible for resolving IT issues, maintaining infrastructure, and ensuring compliance with regulatory needs. Your contribution will enhance patient outcomes and improve operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of IT support experience.
• Fluent in English and French.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1st and 2nd level IT support.
• Support and maintain IT infrastructure.
• Collaborate with IT teams across UK and France.

Skills

Communication

IT Support

Network Skills

Education

Degree in ICT-related discipline

Tools

Network Configuration

Server Management

Job description

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec’s revenues in 2023 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com

At Convatec, we’re transforming our business for the better. Better products. Better ways of working. And better ways of delivering for our customers and each other. We’re aiming for nothing short of excellence. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Lead Technician, and you’ll do the same.

Position Overview:

An exciting opportunity for a multiskilled IT Support technician fluent in French and English, who is required to support the expanding Home Service Group business. The successful candidate will provide high-quality support to public-facing customer service teams and fast-moving distribution centres, both onsite and via remote connection across the UK and France.

The successful candidate would need to demonstrate a wide-ranging set of IT skills to provide 1st and 2nd level support to end users, responding timely and effectively to issues and incidents, and supporting compliance with regulatory needs in both countries. Additionally, the ability to communicate technical details effectively in both French and English and to all levels and areas of the business will be essential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Help to get the most from our technical teams in the UK, US, and France.
• Effective team member/leader.
• Collaborate and support all IT teams.
• Be an effective communicator, appropriate for technical and business teams.
• Own issues to resolution or effectively hand them over for continuity.
• Support and maintain IT infrastructure at all HSG sites in UK and France.
• Maintain day-to-day operation with minimal disruption.
• Help manage and support Amcare/HSG service desk functions.
• Provide prompt/friendly support to end users with all IT issues.
• Provide prompt application support to users.
• Provide a technical link to suppliers and wider teams to support application use.
• Help ensure maximum effectiveness of business applications.
• Demonstrate continuous development and ensure skills/knowledge remain relevant/up-to-date.
• Support/Lead HSG technical incident management.
• Liase with suppliers and wider teams to resolve incidents quickly.
• Demonstrate effective communication and documentation.
• Support technical project development, implementation, and testing.
• Maintain governance, quality, and control in all areas.
• Support change management and project management processes.
• Ensure security, privacy, and data protection are top considerations.
• Support investigations and recommendations with management and security teams.
• Proactively maintain personal skills and knowledge.

Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of IT support experience in large office and/or warehouse environments.
• Technological and IT experience demonstrable.
• Network and Infrastructure skills (Cabling, Routing, WiFi, Security).
• Network configuration and management.
• Server setup, management, and security.

Qualifications/Education:

• Fluent in speaking and communicating in English and French.
• Wide-ranging knowledge of ICT.
• Degree (or equivalent) in ICT-related discipline.
• Understanding of ITIL, Change Management, Service Delivery best practices.

Our products make a big difference every day. So will your contribution. The work you do will mean more, because it’ll make things better for your team, our business, or our customers’ lives. It’ll inspire you to deliver your very best. And we’ll be right behind you when you do.

This is a challenge more worthwhile.

This is work that’ll move you.

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