Service Delivery Manager

servicenow pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Service Delivery Manager to oversee partner-delivered services, ensuring KPIs, SLAs, and customer outcomes are met. You will coordinate between ServiceNow and delivery partners, manage escalations, and drive continuous improvement across global teams.

You will monitor performance, govern transitions, and maintain governance cadences, ensuring predictable, scalable service delivery in a complex, multi-geo environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in service delivery management, vendor governance or partner performance management within a complex, matrixed organisation - particularly within India-based organisations.
• Experience managing partner, vendor or supplier performance through structured governance frameworks, scorecards and business reviews.
• Proven ability to manage third-party performance against defined SLAs and KPIs, including escalation and corrective action processes.
• Experience designing and maintaining operational documentation, including playbooks and standard operating procedures.
• 5+ years of experience in service delivery, partner governance or a related operational role within a global technology or SaaS environment.
• Experience working within or alongside a Partner or managed service delivery model, particularly in a vendor governance or service integration capacity.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary ServiceNow point of contact for the partner's aligned Delivery Manager(s), maintaining day-to-day oversight of partner service performance against contracted KPIs and SLAs.
• Review delivery quality trends, audit findings, and operational metrics to identify systemic issues, root causes, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Monitor delivery unit economics and cost-per-outcome performance, ensuring the contracted commercial model (unit-based, outcome-based, or hybrid) tracks to delivered value.
• Manage the ongoing evolution of the Partner’s service so that new capabilities can be planned and deployed with the appropriate stakeholder alignment, scalable processes and measurable outcomes to drive results
• Manage the operational governance cadence, including weekly performance check-ins, monthly reviews and quarterly business review preparation.
• Lead delivery escalations across ServiceNow and partner teams, driving timely issue resolution and ensuring accountability for remediation plans and service recovery activities.
• Own tracking and acceptance of transition and mobilization milestones during partner onboarding or service transitions, including staffing ramp against plan, capability/certification readiness and transition exit criteria.
• Own capacity and demand management processes, including utilization tracking, variance planning and periodic reconciliation against contracted volumes.
• Manage the change control process for operational or initiative requests that have contractual implications, engaging Commercial Management as needed.
• Flag discrepancies between service delivery status and invoicing or milestone payment triggers to Commercial and Finance stakeholders.
• Produce and maintain performance reporting, providing regular updates to internal leadership and ensure effective coverage and handoff models across distributed, multi-shift delivery teams
• Identify and implement process improvements in response to changes in tooling, operating model or service delivery requirements.
• Coordinate with Service Delivery Managers in other geographies on initiative design, sequencing and rollout to ensure global consistency.
• Maintain a regular interlock with the Global Partnerships and Channels (GPC) team and the emerging global partner organization, ensuring partner performance insights, escalations and capability needs are shared and jointly actioned.
• Partner with account teams, customer success teams and delivery stakeholders to protect customer outcomes and address service delivery risks impacting customer health.
• Drive consistency in delivery execution, governance processes and operational standards across partner-delivered services within the geography.

Skills

Service delivery management

Vendor governance

Partner performance management

Relationship management

KPI & SLA tracking

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Project/program management

Change control

Analytics & reporting

Tools

ServiceNow platform

Job description

The Role

The Service Delivery Manager (SDM) is responsible for overseeing the performance, quality, and operational health of partner-delivered services. Acting as the primary governance point between ServiceNow and delivery partner(s), the SDM ensures partner engagements are delivered in accordance with agreed service levels, quality standards, contractual commitments, and customer outcome expectations.

The SDM monitors partner delivery performance, identifies risks, drives corrective actions, manages escalations, and provides ongoing visibility into delivery health for ServiceNow leadership. The role serves as the accountability layer that makes partner performance predictable, scalable, and aligned to ServiceNow standards, regardless of whether the partner is delivering managed services, outsourced operations, subcontracted services, or project-based engagements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary ServiceNow point of contact for the partner's aligned Delivery Manager(s), maintaining day-to-day oversight of partner service performance against contracted KPIs and SLAs.


• Review delivery quality trends, audit findings, and operational metrics to identify systemic issues, root causes, and opportunities for continuous improvement.


• Monitor delivery unit economics and cost-per-outcome performance, ensuring the contracted commercial model (unit-based, outcome-based, or hybrid) tracks to delivered value.


• Manage the ongoing evolution of the Partner’s service so that new capabilities can be planned and deployed with the appropriate stakeholder alignment, scalable processes and measurable outcomes to drive results


• Manage the operational governance cadence, including weekly performance check-ins, monthly reviews and quarterly business review preparation.


• Lead delivery escalations across ServiceNow and partner teams, driving timely issue resolution and ensuring accountability for remediation plans and service recovery activities.


• Own tracking and acceptance of transition and mobilization milestones during partner onboarding or service transitions, including staffing ramp against plan, capability/certification readiness and transition exit criteria.


• Own capacity and demand management processes, including utilization tracking, variance planning and periodic reconciliation against contracted volumes.


• Manage the change control process for operational or initiative requests that have contractual implications, engaging Commercial Management as needed.


• Flag discrepancies between service delivery status and invoicing or milestone payment triggers to Commercial and Finance stakeholders.


• Produce and maintain performance reporting, providing regular updates to internal leadership and ensure effective coverage and handoff models across distributed, multi-shift delivery teams


• Identify and implement process improvements in response to changes in tooling, operating model or service delivery requirements.


• Coordinate with Service Delivery Managers in other geographies on initiative design, sequencing and rollout to ensure global consistency.


• Maintain a regular interlock with the Global Partnerships and Channels (GPC) team and the emerging global partner organization, ensuring partner performance insights, escalations and capability needs are shared and jointly actioned.


• Partner with account teams, customer success teams and delivery stakeholders to protect customer outcomes and address service delivery risks impacting customer health.


• Drive consistency in delivery execution, governance processes and operational standards across partner-delivered services within the geography.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in service delivery management, vendor governance or partner performance management within a complex, matrixed organisation - particularly within India-based organisations.


• Experience managing partner, vendor or supplier performance through structured governance frameworks, scorecards and business reviews.


• Proven ability to manage third-party performance against defined SLAs and KPIs, including escalation and corrective action processes.


• Experience managing partners related to Customer Success and Professional Services context


• Experience designing and maintaining operational documentation, including playbooks and standard operating procedures.


• Strong project and programme management capability, with a track record of delivering cross-functional initiatives to agreed timelines.


• Ensure effective coverage and handoff models across distributed, multi-shift delivery teams


• Experience monitoring and tracking partner resource ongoing development of skills and certifications in line with service demands


• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate across functions and levels of seniority without direct line authority.


• Proficiency in performance data analysis and reporting, with the ability to draw actionable conclusions from KPI and operational metrics.


• Familiarity with Customer Success and Professional Service metrics and post-sales operating models, including NPS, utilisation, rate cards and product adoption measures.


• Knowledge of or ability to rapidly develop proficiency in ServiceNow’s platform and products.


• Ability to balance customer outcomes, business objectives and partner performance requirements in a complex operating environment.


• 5+ years of experience in service delivery, partner governance or a related operational role within a global technology or SaaS environment.


• Track record of driving continuous improvement and service efficiencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within or alongside a Partner or managed service delivery model, particularly in a vendor governance or service integration capacity.


• Familiarity with scaled SaaS operating models, AI Native environments and partner-delivered service motions.


• Experience operating within an organisational transformation programme in a post-sales or customer success context.


• Certifications in project management, service management, supplier management or customer success disciplines (e.g., PMP, ITIL, CSM, COPC).


• Exposure to AI-enabled or agentic workflow tooling within an operational team environment.


• Experience operating global teams servicing multiple geographies including AMS, EMEA and APAC.