Service Delivery Director

Singtel; Singapore; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Singtel in Singapore is seeking a senior service delivery executive to own end-to-end service delivery, governance, and operational excellence for mobile core, wireless, WAN and RAN services. You will lead deployment, transition-to-run and steady-state operations across internal teams, vendors and partners.

You will establish governance, manage milestones, risk, and escalations, and act as the senior interface to executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline.
• 12–18 years’ experience in telco, managed services, network operations or large-scale infrastructure delivery, including senior leadership of mission-critical, multi-vendor services in regulated or high-security environments.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL/service management, operational governance and major incident leadership.
• Working knowledge of secure network operations, cyber security controls, incident response and vulnerability management.
• Familiarity with ITSM, monitoring, NMS, SIEM, SOAR, CMDB, observability and automation platforms.
• PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL or equivalent project/service delivery certification.
• Executive presence with strong communication, influencing, negotiation and presentation skills; ability to operate under pressure in matrixed, multi-disciplinary and high-accountability environments; structured, commercially aware and outcome-focused with strong risk, issue and escalation discipline; customer-focused leadership style with ability to build trust with senior customer and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end service delivery, governance, commercial performance and operational excellence for dedicated mobile core, wireless, WAN and RAN services supporting the customer.
• Lead deployment, transition-to-run and steady-state operations across multi-disciplinary internal teams, vendors and partners.
• Establish service governance covering milestones, quality gates, acceptance criteria, risk, issue, change and escalation management.
• Serve as the senior service interface for stakeholders, executive sponsors and internal leadership, including service reviews and major escalations.
• Ensure SLA, availability, resilience, security, audit and compliance obligations are met, while driving incident, problem, change, release, capacity, continuity and service improvement processes.
• Drive secure operating practices, vendor governance, budget tracking, operational efficiency, automation and people leadership across the service delivery organisation.

Skills

Senior leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

ITIL / service mgmt

Budget management

Vendor governance

Incident management

Security controls

Project delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline

Tools

ITSM tools

CMDB

SIEM

SOAR

NMS

Job description

At Singtel, we believe in the strength of a vibrant, diverse and inclusive workforce where backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people help us innovate and create strong connections with our customers. We strive to ensure all our people practices are non-discriminatory and provide a fair, performance-based work culture that is diverse, inclusive and collaborative.

Join us and experience what it’s like to be with an Employer of Choice*. Together, let’s create a brighter digital future for all. *Awarded at the HR Fest Awards 2020.

Make An Impact By

• Own end-to-end service delivery, governance, commercial performance and operational excellence for dedicated mobile core, wireless, WAN and RAN services supporting the customer.
• Lead deployment, transition-to-run and steady-state operations across multi-disciplinary internal teams, vendors and partners.
• Establish service governance covering milestones, quality gates, acceptance criteria, risk, issue, change and escalation management.
• Serve as the senior service interface for stakeholders, executive sponsors and internal leadership, including service reviews and major escalations.
• Ensure SLA, availability, resilience, security, audit and compliance obligations are met, while driving incident, problem, change, release, capacity, continuity and service improvement processes.
• Drive secure operating practices, vendor governance, budget tracking, operational efficiency, automation and people leadership across the service delivery organisation.

Skills For Success

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline.
• 12–18 years’ experience in telco, managed services, network operations or large-scale infrastructure delivery, including senior leadership of mission‑critical, multi‑vendor services in regulated or high‑security environments. Strong background in mobile core, wireless, WAN, RAN, service assurance, build‑to‑run transition, senior stakeholder management, executive governance, service performance, budgets and vendor delivery.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL/service management, operational governance and major incident leadership.
• Working knowledge of secure network operations, cyber security controls, incident response and vulnerability management.
• Familiarity with ITSM, monitoring, NMS, SIEM, SOAR, CMDB, observability and automation platforms.
• PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL or equivalent project/service delivery certification.
• Executive presence with strong communication, influencing, negotiation and presentation skills; ability to operate under pressure in matrixed, multi‑disciplinary and high‑accountability environments; structured, commercially aware and outcome‑focused with strong risk, issue and escalation discipline; customer‑focused leadership style with ability to build trust with senior customer and internal stakeholders.

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