Service Delivery Manager

Nsc Global; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

NSC Global in Cape Town seeks a delivery-focused professional to manage tower resources and end-to-end services, ensuring SLAs are met and performance targets achieved.

You will oversee relationships with clients, coordinate cross-tower activities, and drive changes and incident handling while ensuring governance and security compliance across the contract lifecycle.

Qualifications

• College/University degree in IT or 5-7 years of equivalent working experiences.
• Portal, virtualization, application database or hardware knowledge.
• Solution Architect 3-5 years, ITIL Foundations, Project Management.
• CRM Experience.
• Experience in Hardware and Software Migration is an asset.
• To act as single interface to all delivery Towers.
• To implement relevant policies and standards including compliance against security policies.
• Act as a safeguard so that operating tasks are successfully managed along the contract lifecycle phases.

Responsibilities

• To coordinate all resources of the tower (including off-shore).
• To orchestrate end-to-end-services for the involved towers (top of stack).
• Manage the cooperation between Towers to ensure usage of standard methods and tools wherever applicable.
• Ensure that account specific processes are applied at all relevant scope.
• Evaluate and manage service requests.
• To drive completion of service acceptance, technical assurance and handover processes Being the SPOC in case of escalations & major incidents.
• Act as the next level of escalation for tower specific technical teams for all service mgmt. processes.
• Ensure that the Root Cause Analysis for the tower specific services are performed.
• Raise problem records whenever identified.
• Raise request for changes, assess prepare, present the change in the CAB to get the approval.
• Identify and manage all required resources for change planning and execution (including testing, approval and back out plans).
• Ensure the quality of asset management requirements in the respective towers.
• Ensure the CAP planning of the account in the tower on the component level and provision to Manager.

Skills

ITIL Foundations

CRM experience

Solution architecture

Project management

Virtualization

Application databases

Hardware knowledge

Stakeholder management

Education

College/University degree in IT

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

Overview

This role is responsible for delivery excellence of all support towers, customer relationship management, client care, and P&L responsibility. This position holds the responsibility for building relationship through open and honest communication. Have the ability to provide comprehensive status reporting to the customer and NSC Global leadership team. Will need to ensure delivery teams meet or exceed all Service Level Agreements and develop and monitor performance objectives for all direct employees. Will need the understanding and ability to create financial forecasts and work with the finance group to ensure revenue and profit targets are met. Complete billing responsibilities in a timely manner and lead collective activities as necessary

Responsibilities

• To coordinate all resources of the tower (including off-shore)
• To orchestrate end-to-end-services for the involved towers (top of stack)
• Manage the cooperation between Towers to ensure usage of standard methods and tools wherever applicable
• Ensure that account specific processes are applied at all relevant scope
• Evaluate and manage service requests
• To drive completion of service acceptance, technical assurance and handover processes Being the SPOC in case of escalations & major incidents
• Act as the next level of escalation for tower specific technical teams for all service mgmt. processes
• Ensure that the Root Cause Analysis for the tower specific services are performed
• Raise problem records whenever identified
• Raise request for changes, assess prepare, present the change in the CAB to get the approval
• Identify and manage all required resources for change planning and execution (including testing, approval and back out plans)
• Ensure the quality of asset management requirements in the respective towers
• Ensure the CAP planning of the account in the tower on the component level and provision to Manager

Qualifications

• College/University degree in IT or 5 - 7 years of equivalent working experiences
• Portal, virtualization, application database or hardware knowledge
• Solution Architect 3 -5 years, ITIL Foundations, Project Management
• CRM Experience
• Experience in Hardware and Software Migration is an asset
• To act as single interface to all delivery Towers
• To implement relevant policies and standards including compliance against security policies
• Act as a safeguard so that operating tasks are successfully managed along the contract lifecycle phases
• To attend or host service reviews and undertake the appropriate actionsTo create or validate solution parts for limited up-selling (within the dedicated scope)
• To gain understanding of client, contract, business context, and priorities of account
• Ensure that the defined processes defined are being followed within the towers