Senior IT Service Manager

HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector organization in Manchester is looking for a Senior IT Service Manager. The successful candidate will manage IT service governance, ensuring effective stakeholder relationships and service compliance. This position offers a salary of £45,544 with additional pension benefits, a flexible working arrangement, and great development opportunities. Applicants should hold ITIL4 certification and have relevant IT service management experience.

Benefits

Pension contribution

Generous leave allowance

Family friendly policies

Personal support

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of IT Service Management in large organizations.
• Experience with ITSM live services activities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational assurance and governance of IT services.
• Lead the IT Service Management function.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand service requirements.

Skills

ITIL knowledge

Stakeholder management

Service Management skills

Communication skills

Education

ITIL4 Foundation

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Annual Package Total = £58,738 - Salary - £45,544

+ Pension - circa (STC) - £13,194.

60% Flex/Hybrid working per month from Salford hub.

25 days holiday + 1 day per year in service.

Cycle to work scheme + Family friendly policies +

Personal support + Upskilling.

Retail Discounts, Schemes and free entry

to most Heritage England sites + more.

Please look at HOW TO APPLY part of advert, click APPLY to learn more.

further guidance on how to craft a competitive application is mentioned at this part.

Role closes 11:55pm Friday 14/11/25

About the Roles

As a Senior IT Service Manager within Chief Digital Information Office (CDIO), Debt Management and Liabilities, you will possess a deep understanding of IT Service Management, with a primary focus on safeguarding the integrity and continuity of Live Services.

You will deliver targeted assurance on the performance, governance, and compliance of services, ensuring alignment with key performance indicators and ITIL 4 practices. Your role will also involve driving continuous improvement, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to enhance service reliability.

In addition, you will champion the vision and strategic direction of service management, ensuring that processes are clearly defined, effectively owned, and continuously matured to support evolving business objectives.

You will serve as a key escalation point for both business and IT stakeholders, ensuring that the expectations of senior leaders within CDIO and Enterprise Live Services (ELS) are consistently met. Clear and accessible communication will be essential, using terminology that resonates with both technical and non-technical audiences.

An ideal candidate will be a credible, influential, and encouraging team‑player: Someone who is self‑motivated, a confident communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and a proven dedication to continuous improvement in self and others.

Job Description

• Ensure operational assurance and governance of IT services, with a strong focus on maintaining high standards of data quality.
• Act as a key liaison within Debt Management and Liabilities, building strong stakeholder relationships and developing a deep understanding of CDIO and ELS processes and responsibilities.
• Lead the IT Service Management (ITSM) function, ensuring high-quality service delivery and user satisfaction.
• Oversee incident, problem, change, and request management processes.
• Develop and maintain service level agreements (SLAs) and operational level agreements (OLAs).
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand service requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Manage vendor relationships and third‑party service providers.
• Drive continual service improvement (CSI) initiatives using data and feedback.
• Ensure compliance with IT governance, risk, and security policies.
• Produce regular service performance reports and present to senior leadership.

Person Specification

• Build and develop a trusted relationships across CDIO including Product & Platform senior stakeholders.
• Manage a consistent end-to-end service portfolio of technical services within a defined service quality framework consisting of value streams and practices, technical health hygiene working with a wide group of stakeholders, and other live service colleagues.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the key ITIL 4 practices and any changes to these.
• Ensure service data, models, and maps are maintained and controlled within the guidelines set out by Service Catalogue Management and Service Configuration Management.
• A focus on continually improving services for business outcomes.
• Support the introduction of new functionality while protecting the integrity of existing services.
• Ensure delivery teams are prioritising technical health by supporting stakeholders with identifying risks, vulnerabilities, and issues.
• Produce reports to clearly demonstrate and communicate compliance and performance.

Essential Criteria

• The role is suitable for an individual with extensive knowledge and experience of IT Service Management within large organisations managing multiple services to multiple customers, specifically in ITSM live services activities (Incident, Change, Problem, Risk Management,) and transition in Live.
• Experienced in developing and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders (including suppliers) and working collaboratively in a
• cross‑functional environment including the ability to effectively influence.
• Has the experience and ability to communicate effectively up to Senior Management including a strong background in documentation creation/review.
• Has a broad knowledge and understanding of IT concepts and architectures.
• Has the ability for analysing and managing outcomes related to service availability, reliability, resilience, performance, and security.
• Has strong knowledge of ITIL4 within large organisations with a disaggregated supply chain.
• Can use a range of data and analytical skills to support decision making prioritisation and advice to senior stakeholders on operational live service.
• Able to apply service management activities across integrated, or "end-to-end" IT services (reflecting operational support models and user journeys).

Desirable Criteria

• ITIL4 foundation (mandatory); Practitioner / Specialist Certification ITIL4 (preferred).
• Experience working with ServiceNow (IT Service Management).
• Experience with service management information and reporting toolsets.
• ITIL Certified at Practitioner / Specialist Level (e.g. ITIL4 Create Deliver Support).

Transitional Sites Information

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it's important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations (opens in a new window)

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle.
• Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford.

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £45,544, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £13,194 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following

• A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences.
• A 750-word Personal Statement which should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the Essential Criteria and Person Specification as outlined in the advert.

Please evidence any Desirable Criteria where applicable (up to 250 words max). This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy holder where candidates have the same score at interview.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience.

Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.