Service Delivery Supervisor
Johannesburg, South Africa
Are you a hands‑on service delivery professional who thrives in a fast‑paced operational environment? Do you enjoy leading teams, driving service excellence, and finding practical solutions to complex challenges? We're looking for a Service Delivery Supervisor to join our Johannesburg Centre of Excellence and play a key role in ensuring exceptional service delivery across our Managed Services operation. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who combines strong leadership skills with a passion for operational performance, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement.
Reporting to the Managed Services Manager - Media & Application Support, you will help lead daily operations, support and develop team members, manage escalations, and ensure service commitments are consistently achieved.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Service Delivery Supervisor, you'll be at the centre of our day‑to‑day service operations, ensuring customers receive reliable, high‑quality support while enabling your team to perform at their best.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate daily service delivery activities, ensuring work is effectively assigned, monitored, and completed within agreed service levels.
- Oversee alarm, alert, work entry, and escalation activity across Managed Services functions including:
- Wetstock
- Compliance
- Forecourt
- Media
- Application Support
- Provide coaching, guidance, and real‑time feedback to team members through one‑to‑ones, team huddles, and daily interactions.
- Manage and support service escalations, ensuring issues are routed appropriately and driven through to resolution.
- Promote operational excellence by reinforcing standard processes and identifying risks that could impact service delivery.
- Monitor workload, service performance, quality metrics, and trends to proactively address gaps and improve outcomes.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to remove blockers and maintain efficient service flow.
- Support onboarding, training, and ongoing development activities to ensure team readiness and capability.
- Escalate recurring issues and process concerns with clear recommendations for resolution.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, quality, and customer experience.
- Produce operational reporting and performance insights using Power BI and Microsoft Excel.
Experience & Skills
- Supervising or coordinating service delivery, service desk, support, or managed services teams.
- Managing daily operational activities and helping teams achieve service level commitments.
- Monitoring incident, alert, escalation, and work management processes.
- Supporting the triage, routing, and resolution of incidents and customer requests.
- Working with internal stakeholders and external partners to deliver customer‑focused outcomes.
- Supporting customer deployments, implementation activities, and transitions into support operations.
- Tracking service performance measures and identifying operational risks and trends.
- Developing and maintaining process documentation, workflows, and operating procedures.
- Coaching, onboarding, and mentoring team members.
- Driving process consistency and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Using Power BI and Microsoft Excel to analyse data, identify trends, and generate performance insights.
Personal Attributes
- A confident and approachable people leader.
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
- Calm under pressure and comfortable managing competing priorities.
- Customer