Senior Service Delivery Manager in the UK

Orsted Germany; Barrow-in-Furness; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in Barrow-in-Furness is seeking an IT Service Delivery Manager to ensure high customer satisfaction and stable operations within their Service Delivery Management team. The role involves stakeholder engagement, performance reporting, and leading initiatives for continuous improvement. Candidates should have experience in IT service management and strong communication skills. This position offers a hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• Experience as a service delivery manager or IT consultant in a global enterprise.
• A consultancy mindset managing a variety of tasks in an agile environment.
• Ability to collaborate with both infrastructure and application management specialists.

Responsibilities

• Establish relationships with stakeholders to ensure satisfaction in IT service delivery.
• Act as primary contact for IT inquiries and address various organizational issues.
• Lead initiatives for improving operational maturity in IT services.

Skills

Service delivery management experience

IT management consultancy

Excellent communication skills

Ability to handle pressure

Flexibility in task management

Job description

Join us in this role where you’ll work within our IT Service Delivery Management team, focusing on ensuring high customer satisfaction, stable operations, and continuous improvements by continuously engaging in close dialogue with our global stakeholders. As part of building relationships with the Ørsted business and our internal IT teams, you’ll facilitate collaboration meetings, provide relevant performance reporting, and help to resolve complaints and pain points, by raising attention and anchoring issues in our agile Product Lines. Ultimately, you will be instrumental in connecting the Ørsted business with IT.

Welcome to Center of Excellence Service Delivery Management

You’ll be part of our global Service Delivery Management team where you, together with your colleagues, will be a part of a cross‑functional, global team consisting of service delivery managers and service transition managers. As part of the global team, your focus area will be on UK operational hubs at the west coast in collaboration with colleague taking care of the east coast and together you will support our business in the UK, ensuring delivery of IT products and services to the business and continuously increasing the level of operational maturity. You will be working in a hybrid mode from our West Coast Hub in Barrow.

You’ll play an important role in:

• establishing a good relationship with key stakeholders and ensuring an organisational focus on issues raised to achieve a high level of satisfaction in the delivery of IT services
• acting as the primary contact for the relevant business unit, addressing a wide range of IT inquiries and issues, while also enforcing and supporting IT service management disciplines
• continuously building and maintaining the right level of SLAs and tools
• establishing the necessary SLA and ensuring transparency in reporting and KPIs
• leading initiatives to improve operational maturity and increase the quality of IT services we deliver as an organisation, e.g., participation in tenders
• participating in our Change Advisory Board (CAB) to meet customer needs and protect operations, by ensuring high quality of IT related changes.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have experience as a service delivery manager, IT management consultant, or similar, in a global organisation and at enterprise level
• have a consultancy mindset with the flexibility to manage a variety of tasks, combining people skills and IT knowledge, whilst keeping sight of business value in an agile environment
• have experience collaborating with both infrastructure and application management specialists, as well as communicating efficiently with management and specialists at different levels
• have excellent communication skills and a personal drive to achieve results
• have the ability to set the scene, provide a clear agenda, lead across various teams and to stay focused
• have the ability to handle pressure well, and work through resistance to get things done.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us

Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [e-mail].