The Service Delivery Director is responsible for leading end-to-end IT service delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring operational excellence, service quality, stakeholder satisfaction, and continuous improvement. The role requires strong expertise in IT Service Management (ITSM), End-User Computing (EUC), and ITIL-based service delivery processes.
The successful candidate will oversee service delivery transitions from Day 1 operational readiness through Day 2 steady-state operations, drive process harmonisation, optimise service delivery models, and manage senior stakeholders across multiple business and technology functions in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Service Delivery Leadership: Lead and manage IT service delivery workstreams, ensuring service performance, operational stability, and delivery against agreed SLAs and KPIs.
- ITSM & ServiceNow Management: Demonstrate hands-on experience managing and operating ITSM modules, including incident, problem, change, request, and service management processes.
- EUC & Desktop Operations: Oversee End-User Computing (EUC) services, including desktop support, desk-side support, asset management, service management, and on-site technical operations.
- Transition & Operations: Lead service transition activities, ensuring Day 1 operational readiness, effective knowledge transfer, and a smooth transition into Day 2 steady-state operations.
- Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with CIOs and senior stakeholders across individual BU, managing expectations, resolving escalations, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Resource Planning & Sizing: Develop logical, data-driven resource plans and service delivery models, including workload analysis, capacity planning, resource sizing, and manpower optimisation.
- ITSM Process Harmonisation: Standardise and harmonise ITSM processes across multiple BUs in accordance with ITIL best practices, driving consistency, efficiency, and service quality.
- Service Desk & AI Enablement: Maintain familiarity with Service Desk operations, ServiceNow AI capabilities, and AI-enabled service management solutions to improve service efficiency and user experience.
- Automation & Digital Workplace: Understand self-healing and digital employee experience solutions, including platforms such as Nanoheal and Tanium Digital Employee Experience (DEX), to support proactive issue resolution and operational improvement.
- Performance & Continuous Improvement: Establish and monitor service delivery metrics, analyse operational data, identify service improvement opportunities, and implement corrective actions to improve productivity and service outcomes.
- Operational Governance: Drive service reviews, risk management, escalation handling, service reporting, and governance across all assigned BUs.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in service delivery leadership roles, such as Service Delivery Director, Service Delivery Manager (SDM), or Project Manager (PM), with accountability for IT operations and service delivery.
- Demonstrated experience managing or operating ITSM modules in a live service delivery environment.
- Strong experience in End-User Computing, desktop services, asset management, service desk, and desk-side support operations.
- ITIL certification is mandatory, with practical experience applying ITIL principles and ITSM best practices.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent BUs, each with its own senior stakeholders, operational requirements, and delivery commitments.
- Strong analytical and logical problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate concrete operational data into resource sizing, capacity plans, performance insights, and service improvement actions.
- Excellent communication, influencing, negotiation, and escalation management skills, with experience engaging CIOs and senior business and technology leaders.
- Experience leading service transitions, operational readiness, and the establishment of stable Day 1 and Day 2 service operations.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow AI-enabled capabilities, Service Desk operations, self-healing technologies, and digital employee experience solutions.
- Prior experience in a Systems Integrator (SI) environment is strongly preferred.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, managing competing priorities, and making sound decisions under pressure.