Regional Technical Director, Italy

Transaction Network Services (TNS); Milano; In loco; EUR 80.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading company in the telecommunications sector seeks a Regional Technical Director for its Italian operations. This pivotal role encompasses various operational responsibilities, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction, managing vendor relations, and leading local operational initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in operations and project management, with a degree in a relevant field.

Competenze

• 10 years of Operations Experience required.
• 5 years of Project Management Experience required.
• BSc degree or equivalent industry experience needed.

Mansioni

• Accountable for all operational responsibilities in Italy.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and service delivery per SLAs.
• Manage vendors and local operations effectively.

Conoscenze

Operations Management

Vendor Management

Project Management

Customer Satisfaction

Formazione

BSc in Business or Analytical field

ITIL Foundation Certification

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Overview

The Regional Technical Director (RTD) position is accountable for all Operational responsibilities in the Italian region including all Delivery and Service Support elements

The role will work closely with our customers ensuring customer satisfaction is high and that their service is meeting the expected service criteria.

Responsibilities

The RTD position is accountable for all Operational responsibilities in the region including all Delivery and Service Support elements, which aims to meet our customers' requirements in accordance with defined Service Level Agreements, their expected customer satisfaction (their “Peace of Mind”) and supporting the overall business requirements.

The position will act as the Operations Manager for the local country, ensuring that all operational responsibilities are covered in the local office. This will also be acting as a key stakeholder to ensure the operational services are running as expected in country and liaising on a regular basis with the centralized NOC management team to ensure that local customer satisfaction is at the expected levels. This will also be the case for any Service Delivery projects being delivered in-country.

The position will work closely with both the Business and Network Operations Departments to ensure that Customer Satisfaction is performing at optimal levels. The role will also be engaged in functions such as customer satisfaction and ensuring the customers’ services are running at optimal levels.

Service Assurance, Delivery of new services, Incident Management and Continual Service Improvement are all key elements of the role. The position acts as local Operations leader in the Italian office and will have responsibility for different Operation’s functions as outlined. This role is also partially responsibility for the technical delivery of services into the network to meet the needs of customer sales and internal network maintenance activity.

The Regional Technical Director will be responsible for Italian Vendor Management and will help manage the local vendors supporting the regional strategy. This will be supported by the centralized vendor support teams.

• Work with the Regional Vendor Manager to set priorities with local vendors
• Work towards standardizing the local vendor interface so they can best support the NOC whether that is through English speaking helpdesk or other methods to help support the centralized model
• Ensure that there is a cash generation number in your budget every year and participate in the Cash Generation program.
• Ensure that all vendors have a current signed contract or MSA

Responsible for Italian Service Operations

The Global NOC will be accountable for Incident Management in EMEA and with support from the RTD on a day-to-day basis.

For Customer Service Management, the RTD will be responsible for Customer satisfaction in Italy and will work with the Global Service Operation team who will be accountable for customers in EMEA supporting the RTD on a daily basis. The RTD will oversee local Change Management and Problem Management supporting the global process and will support the Global Change Manager for any changes in country.

• Work with the Global Change Management team to review, assess and authorise any emergency / major changes to TNS or customer networks / equipment that will affect live service
• Ensure the priority and implementation timescales for changes are in line with the scale and degree of urgency for the work to be carried out
• Ensure that all documentation, procedures, supporting information and diagrams are maintained to enable effective management of these services

Country / Office Operations Leadership

The RTD will be responsible for Operations Leadership in Italy with support from VP of EMEA Operations.

• Provide a customer interface and escalation point during incidents
• Facilitate the creation of a known problem and known error database including corrective actions, for use during incidents
• Facilitate major incident reviews following major service outages to review the incident and produce an action plan to put corrective actions in place
• Ensure all incident reports are produced in a timely fashion following a significant service outage
• Develop and manage problem analysis procedures and processes to enable problem prevention controls to be put in place
• Develop and manage repeat fault analysis procedures and processes to enable detailed investigation of repeat offenders to be initiated

Supporting the Business Operation

The RTD will support the Sales organization as needed representing Operations in the appropriate Customer meetings. On occasion, the RTD may need to support Sales for local Operations input. The VP of Sales Consultancy will work closely with the RTD as well as the local Business Sales Engineers and Account Managers.

• Support the Business as needed in any new opportunities to ensure that new solutions meet the set SLAs and standard services.
• Work with Sales Engineering and Product as needed for new sales opportunities that are nonstandard.
• Act as an Operations escalation point for any operational issues within your region. Represent your Operational peers to help manage the situation locally.
• Participate as a team member of the local Management team in making decisions that support the regional office and team.
• Local Payments environment : Review the ongoing technological and regulatory developments in the region, including attendance of professional associations and forums (Telecoms / Payments), liaising with regulatory groups, flagging technological challenges to your management team, the Product group and the local business
• Contract review and sign off : ensure that contracts with Customer / Suppliers are completed in accordance with TNS standard operating procedures and requirements
• Ensure interface with local authorities on fraud related matters connected to TNS services and systems infrastructure

Global Service Delivery Governance

The RTD will be responsible for ensuring that Italian Service Delivery functions as it should. In this case it may be liaising between Sales and Operations locally and being an escalation point for the local Sales executive. The RTD will also engage with the central delivery team ensuring that they are delivering the appropriate SLAs for the region. The GSD central team will be accountable for the Service Delivery Function in the EMEA region but the RTD will be responsible for ensuring that targeted deliveries are meeting the expected criteria.

• Review monthly service reports to ensure that the quality of services is at appropriate levels for your region
• Work with the Director of Network Services to develop a set of SLAS for TNS products and services within your region of responsibility
• Be responsible for the upkeep and management of all SLAS
• Review, assess and sign off amendments to customer SLAS being proposed by the Sales team for new services

Qualifications

• Education : BSc 3rd Level degree with concentration in business or an analytical field (math, science, etc.) or industry experience equivalent.
• ITIL Foundation Certification and Intermediate Certifications
• 10 years Operations Experience
• 5 years Project Management Experience

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!

TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability / handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

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Information Technology

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