Service Delivery Manager

Zones, LLC; Carol Stream (IL); On-site; USD 153,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Voluntary accident insurance

Hospitalization and critical illness

401(k) plan with matching

Paid time off

Personal sick leave

Job summary

Zones, LLC is seeking a Service Delivery Manager to lead large, enterprise-wide managed services engagements and drive client satisfaction within the utility market.

You will partner with sales, solution teams, and our Center of Excellence to translate client requirements into formal agreements, manage project lifecycles, and ensure deliverables meet scope, time, and budget goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field; 10+ years in service delivery or project management.
• PMI/PMBOK based project management experience and ability to manage large engagements.
• Experience leading pre-sales activities and client engagements with executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, enterprise-wide managed services engagements through all lifecycle phases.
• Build and maintain relationships at all levels, including C-suite, as a trusted business partner.
• Meet revenue, profit, and growth targets while improving client satisfaction targets.
• Establish and maintain communications across the organization.
• Optimize resource allocation, scheduling, and utilization.
• Prepare management reports on project performance and finance.
• Plan and facilitate client and internal meetings; drive output.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation plans.

Skills

PMBOK knowledge

Executive communication

Project management

Risk management

Change management

Pre-sales collaboration

PMP certification

Vendor coordination

Leadership

MS Office / Project

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA preferred

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

Company Overview

When it comes to IT solution providers, there are a lot of choices. But when it comes to providers with innovative and differentiating end-to-end service offerings, there’s really only one: Zones – First Choice for IT.TM

Position Overview

The Service Delivery Manager’s role is to develop and manage partnerships with global and enterprise clients and manage the daily implementation of these partnerships to address customer challenges. You will be responsible for planning, managing, and executing multiple Managed Services Engagement as well as daily project initiatives that create and add to client-facing technology solutions to deliver world-class customer experience and broaden our capabilities in the utility market.

This position will work hand in hand with sales leads, our solution sales team, and our internal Center of Excellence as well as serve as the lead Zones customer facing contact for your specific Managed Services customers. You will proactively work with clients to identify their business objectives, priorities, direction, and critical success factors. You will apply this knowledge to establish and implement an effective Account Strategy. You will be responsible for translating customer requirements into formal agreements, establishing and documenting specific solutions, and leading client reporting and interaction of documented requirements.

What You Will Do As The Service Delivery Manager

The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of the duties and responsibilities of the position, and the duties and responsibilities may change without notice.

• Lead large, complex, enterprise-wide projects & managed services engagements through all project lifecycle phases.
• Responsible for building and maintaining strong client relationships at all levels, including C-level, with the objective of being a trusted business partner.
• Accountable for meeting revenue, profit, and growth objectives and for improving overall customer satisfaction targets.
• Establish and maintain relationships and communications at all levels of the organization.
• Optimization of resource allocation, scheduling, and utilization.
• Support senior executives across business lines in strategic analysis, project scoping and approach definition.
• Prepare reports for upper management regarding project performance and financial status.
• Plan and facilitate internal and client facing team meetings, working sessions and communicate output of such.
• Identification of risks, and development/facilitation of risk mitigation actions.
• Development and facilitation of change management plans/actions.
• Be the liaison between Zones and our customers for business, technical, and other project team meetings.
• Serve as escalation point for issues beyond project team authority; resolves conflicts involving scheduling, resources, or technical issues.
• Communicate with clients to assess satisfaction levels with products and services.
• Participates in customer meetings as sales support to develop new and grow existing business opportunities.
• Responsible for overall project management, including all phases of PMI project management concepts: Project Integration, Scope, Time Cost, Quality, Resources, Communications, Risk and Procurement. Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Develop and implement systems and processes to support meeting client SLAs.
• Train, mentor and coach subordinates and peers to deliver services and projects based on industry methodology and accepted best practices.
• Manage IT Service Levels and Operational Requests from the Customer.
• Travel to customer sites as required.

What You Will Bring To The Team

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 10 years’ experience with Service Delivery, Project Management or business consulting, MBA preferred, or equivalent education, training or experience preferred.
• Exceptional communication skills and experience working with executives and C-level stakeholders.
• Demonstrated knowledge of PMBOK, including risk management, change order management, performance measurements, financial and qualitative analysis, and project/people management.
• Extensive experience in managing large long-term Managed Services engagements, managing profitability, and successfully meeting the client's expectations and goals. ITIL V3 or 4 certifications preferred
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while staying aligned to the project objectives.
• Leadership skills that would be applied across the client enterprise and across multiple project environments, to influence client's expectations and goals.
• Experience with business transformation and change management.
• Experience and success in managing service level agreements with penalties.
• Experience successfully collaborating in a pre-sales environment with technical resources.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical requirements into a detailed quote or Statement of Work.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Ability to implement effective personnel/project risk management and safety strategies.
• Ability to work and adapt to change in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Project.
• Must have skills in five key general management areas of client relationship management, consultative selling, financial / business management, portfolio / project management and team management and are usually the primary focal point for all activities on a large complex contract.
• PMP Certification.
• Knowledge of and experience in all areas of Datacenter, Network, Servers, Storage, backup, etc preferred.
• Experience coordinating sub-contracted vendors and offshore teams.

Salary Range

Qualified candidates can expect a salary range up to $170,000

Zones Offers a Comprehensive Benefits Package

• medical coverage
• dental coverage
• vision coverage
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• voluntary accident insurance
• hospitalization and critical illness insurance options
• 401(k) plan with matching provision
• paid time off
• personal sick leave

At Zones, work is more than a job – it is an exciting career on a global team that is client centric, has a passion for technology, embraces change and lifelong learning in a collaborative culture. And as a Minority Business Enterprise, a Corporate Plus member of the Northwest Minority Supplier Development Council, and an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, our community is just as diverse. If you’re interested in working on the cutting edge of IT innovation, sales, engineering, operations, administration, and more, Zones is the place for you!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

Zones participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a system that compares information from a team member’s Form I‑9 to federal records to confirm their eligibility to work in the United States.