Delivery Manager

NTT Ltd.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology services provider in Johannesburg is seeking a Delivery Manager to oversee service delivery and client satisfaction. The ideal candidate will have a strong IT background, excellent communication skills, and experience in leading engineering teams. Responsibilities include monitoring support queues, driving service excellence, and implementing improvements. A Bachelor's degree in IT and ITIL certification are required.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in coaching and mentoring IT engineering teams.
• Experience implementing continual service improvement initiatives.
• Experience in organizational change management.

Responsibilities

• Monitor work queues and support clients with escalated incidents.
• Provide operational support and drive service delivery.
• Conduct quality audits and engage with clients.

Skills

Good organizational and team management skills

Good communication skills

Budget and cost management understanding

Time management and prioritization abilities

Client centricity focus

Adaptability in pressurized environments

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field

ITIL certification

Job description

Overview

Job title : Delivery Manager

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : September 28, 2025

Your day at NTT DATA

• The Delivery Manager is a developing subject matter expert, responsible for operating within a Region / Country or Services function and is accountable for service delivery at the highest level thereby ensuring client satisfaction and the successful continuance of business operations within the organization.
• This role ensures managed service is provided to all clients, thereby ensuring that their IT infrastructure and systems remain operational.
• The primary objective of this role is to ensure contracted Managed Services outcomes are delivered to the client and assists with the planning, building and supporting of delivering managed services to meet business objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Monitors the work queues and provides support to clients where the ticket is highly technical or sophisticated in nature.
• Works independently, with general direction from the client, stakeholders, team lead, or senior manager, to perform operational tasks to resolve all escalated incidents / requests in a timely manner within the agreed SLA.
• Provides support to all escalated incidents.
• Shares such knowledge, to resolve issues, document them, and push the knowledge down to other engineers.
• Acts as emergency support contact as needed, for critical client and business-impacting issues.
• Ensures that the shift handover process highlight any key escalated open tickets to be focussed on along with a handover of upcoming operation critical tasks to be carried out in the next shift.
• Timely escalation of all tickets to management with ensuing updates, where applicable.
• Proactively identifies, contributes, implements, and works with automation teams for effort optimization and automating routine tasks.
• Systematically gathers relevant information and apply technical knowledge to analyze and use highly technical troubleshooting tools and content and analytical practices.
• Uses operational and diagnostic procedures to resolve escalated tickets in unique and complex client environments.
• Coaches teams within remit by offering technical expertise and pushing work down to other engineering teams.
• Performs quality audits, covering process, service experience, ticket updates as required.
• Drives service delivery to clients and applies standardized service management service operations (SMSO) to deliver managed services.
• Provides operational support and continuous service improvement post client handover from Technical Services (or other) teams.
• Implements training and development initiatives for direct reports.
• Engages with clients for technical operations as part of routine operations.
• Constantly measures and analyses team’s delivery capabilities.

To thrive in this role, you need to have :

• Good organizational and team management skills.
• Good communication skills – both verbal and written coupled with excellent ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders and external clients.
• Seasoned understanding of budgets and cost management.
• Good time management, prioritization and delegation abilities.
• Good focus on client centricity.
• Highly focused on business outcomes.
• Ability to guide the team through transformational objectives set out by the business.
• Ability to work across different cultures and social groups.
• Ability to work well in a pressurized environment and adapt to changing circumstances.

Academic qualifications and certifications :

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree in Information Technology or Computing or related field.
• ITIL certification is required.

Required experience :

• Solid experience in coaching and mentoring engineering team(s) gained within an information technology services organization.
• Solid demonstrated experience implementing continual service improvement initiatives (through automation, process enhancements).
• Solid demonstrated experience in organizational change management (transformational experience).
• Solid demonstrated experience in domain towers such as Network, Collaboration / Customer experience, Cloud, Security, Data Center.