Service Manager - SAP HR (ERP Apps Ops)

Synapxe; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Singapore is seeking a Service Manager responsible for maintaining high service levels and ensuring all IT operations activities are efficiently performed. The role involves managing complex service issues, coordinating resolutions across teams, and ensuring compliance with SLAs while leveraging SAP expertise. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills and excellent communication abilities to effectively interact with stakeholders and drive service improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology or similar required.
• SAP experience in HCM and SuccessFactors needed.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Drive resolution of complex problems impacting service performance.
• Implement response and recovery plans for service improvements.
• Manage high severity incident communications to stakeholders.

Skills

Communication

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Negotiation skills

Education

Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or equivalent

Tools

SAP HCM

SAP SuccessFactors

Job description

Position Overview

Service Manager is responsible to maintain high levels of service and to ensure that all IT operations activities are performed. The candidate will be the subject matter expert in technology and/or business domain.

The Service Manager is responsible to drive both internal and external teams in the resolution of complex problems to ensure high resiliency and compliance to SLAs, KPIs and metrics relating to service performance and operations performance. The Service Manager should possess strong analytical skills in the completion of service operations related activities and are responsible for tracking and analyzing important reports covering service performance metrics and operations activities.

Role & Responsibilities

• Assist as Subject Matter Expert and Drive organizational capability to effectively apply service operations and maintenance framework

• Implement Response and Recovery Plans and activities relating improvements to service recovery

• Assist senior leaders in disaster recovery planning and activities

• Drives internal and 3rd party service provider / vendor review meetings covering performance, service improvements, quality and processes

• Troubleshoot and resolution of service health issues and bring relevant parties to resolve impediments impacting service performance

• Organise system activities including planned maintenance events, system backup processes and disaster recovery drills

• Assist in blueprints for operational support material for disciplines of applications are concise and complete. Covering (internal security and technology standards)

• Collaborate with multiple internal teams across disparate groups to restore services when incidents occurred, gather required experts to perform root cause analysis for problem resolution

• Track and ensure compliance to SLAs, KPIs and metrics relating to service performance and operations performance

• Ensure all operational support material is complete and all process comply within internal security and technology standards

• Manage high severity incident communications such incident broadcast communication to all stakeholders and provide regular updates to management until incident closure

• Manage the incident and problem management process to ensure all preventive measures and problem resolution are recorded in the Known Error Database (KEDB)

• Maintain processes, templates and SOP, website and information related to incident and problem management

• Provide guidance to the team to ensure the best support and best standarization of approaches possible for systems availability

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or equivalent

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• SAP experience in the SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors

• Good understating of SAP best practices

• Familiarity with Human Capital business processes and leading industry practices

• Good understanding of Technology and infrastructure

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing key stakeholders and vendors to influence
  and achieve optimal business outcomes