Service Delivery Manager

WARACLE; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital technology consultancy is seeking a Service Delivery Manager to enhance client relationships and oversee the delivery of digital products. This hybrid role involves managing day-to-day operations and performance of delivery squads. Required qualifications include experience in client-facing delivery roles and a strong understanding of digital products, especially in web and mobile contexts. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills and a commercial mindset. Applicants will work from any of the UK offices two days a week.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a client-facing delivery or account management role.
• Strong understanding of digital product delivery, particularly for web and mobile applications.
• Experience managing multiple client accounts and fostering strong relationships.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for Managed Services clients and foster relationships.
• Coordinate workflows, plan resources, and manage support hierarchies.
• Lead planning cycles for quarterly sprint activity in agile, retainer-based models.

Skills

Client Management

Agile Retainer Expertise

Digital Product Acumen

Interpersonal Skills

Commercial Mindset

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

• Location: Hybrid - from any of our UK offices
• Term: Permanent Position

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Service Delivery Manager

• Location: Hybrid - from any of our UK offices
• Term: Permanent Position
• Salary: Competitive

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Waracle are looking for a Service Delivery Manager for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation.

We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.

This is a Hybrid role working from any of our UK offices (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee or London) 2 days a week.

Your Role as a Service Delivery Manager

As a Service Delivery Manager at Waracle, you will be the key interface, ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of our digital products and services. You will be critical in managing the day-to-day operations and performance of your assigned delivery squad and client accounts. This role is about making every hour count by delivering tangible impact.

We’re looking for a motivated and confident individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for client relationships. If you see yourself in the skills below, we strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t tick every box!

Key aspects of the role include

We strive for excellence in everything we do, seeing every opportunity as a chance to Raise the bar. You will be supported to achieve your full potential in these key areas:

• Forge Client Partnerships: Serve as the primary point of contact for Managed Services clients, proactively building strong relationships, managing expectations, and clearly demonstrating the value of our retainers and SLAs.
• Oversee Service Delivery: Apply expertise in service delivery methodologies to coordinate workflows, plan resources, and manage support hierarchies (1st/2nd/3rd line), tracking SLAs/KPIs and forecasting team utilisation for seamless operations.
• Manage Agile Retainers: Lead planning cycles for quarterly sprint activity in agile, retainer-based models, facilitating prioritisation with client Product Owners and Technical Leads to align delivery with strategic objectives.
• Enable Delivery Squads: Manage multidisciplinary delivery squads, ensuring comprehensive client coverage, optimal team utilisation, predictable delivery, and coordinating resource allocation.
• Drive Commercial Growth: Identify cross-sell/upsell opportunities, shape new work proposals and retainers, forecast demand, manage service renewals, and present performance reports.
• Demonstrate Technical Fluency (Non-hands-on): Understand modern web/mobile technology stacks, CI/CD pipelines, hosting environments, and performance metrics, appreciating technical delivery nuances without hands-on coding.
• Apply Agile & Operational Discipline: Effectively apply agile principles within live support contexts, utilising tools like Jira, Jira Service Management (JSM), and Azure DevOps to maintain quality standards and manage escalation paths.
• Navigate Complexity with Resilience: Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, adeptly managing context-switching and calmly handling client or operational escalations.

What you'll bring

• Proven Experience: In a client-facing delivery or account management role within a digital agency, consultancy, or IT services environment.
• Digital Product Acumen: A strong understanding of digital product delivery, particularly within web and mobile applications.
• Client Management: Demonstrated experience managing multiple client accounts and fostering strong, productive relationships.
• Agile Retainer Expertise: Familiarity and experience with agile, retainer-based delivery models.
• Commercial Mindset: Strong commercial acumen, with a track record of identifying growth opportunities and managing service renewals.
• Technical Context: An appreciation for technical concepts and delivery processes.
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Tool Familiarity: Desirable familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps.

Recruitment process

The recruitment process you can expect for this role is an initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner who will chat with you about Waracle, what you are looking for in a new position, the salary for the role, notice period and benefits (the important stuff!) After that, you’ll be invited to a two-stage interview process where you have an opportunity to find out more about the role and showcase your skills and experience. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will guide you through the whole process to your first day with us.

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Our values

To make the world a better place through impactful software

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We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.