Service Delivery Manager (Hiring for: I.T Company) Contract Job

Overall Responsibility:

The Service Delivery Manager contributes to the overall success of the Company by ensuring that the customer enjoys an amazing experience as well as gets real and tangible value.

This includes, among others, managing technical operations, managing uptime and service reliability, managing competence and department capabilities, overseeing help desk operations and troubleshooting and overseeing online experience. Foundational to meeting KPIs is the continuous improvement of how we deliver a service and how we can do better. So working smarter rather than harder and using intelligence to improve operations and uptime.

The Service Delivery Manager will be supported by, and who will report to you, Head of Customer Support, Head of Online Experience and Head of Technical Operations.

Detailed Responsibility:

• To ensure we fulfill orders in a timely and well coordinated manner and that all new installations are done with the highest of standards and workmanship. This includes the customers online experience and provision of adequate training to the customer. This includes the constant empowerment of technicians and field staff in competence and skill levels. It also involves supporting field staff when they are stuck from a technical standpoint. This involves getting to know the type of installations, devices, configuration in an in depth and thorough manner.
• To ensure that all support issues are addressed in a timely and effective manner. All support issues (tickets) should be managed and updated as often as possible to the point of closure to the satisfaction of the customer. This includes empowering Customer Support Executives to be able to do basic troubleshooting on first call. The help desk team is the main interface to the customer so the responses must be as per the values of the company.
• To ensure that the customers get tangible and measurable value for the service in terms of delivery of Actionable Intelligence, which is our key Value Proposition. This involves managing the Online Experience team to onboard the customers in such a manner that they see value in using the service, and respond to customer issues in a timely and effective manner. So this team is not only about support, it's about how we can help our customers run their operations better, more efficiently and in a safer manner.
• To continuously do a root cause analysis of perpetual issues faced that degrades service levels and availability so that corrective and preventive actions are taken to improve the overall service reliability and availability.
• To constantly improve our standards, develop new standards, training and retrain our staff on all aspects of standards enforcement.
• To constantly improve our Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), workflows and Internal and External SLAs, so that we improve how we deliver the service more effectively and efficiently.
• To ensure that we meet critical KPIs pertaining to service delivery.
• To develop a training and certification program for our technicians and staff as well as outsourced support contractors so that competencies and capabilities are maintained at the highest levels. This involves regular re-trainings.
• To provide management with relevant and insightful reports for each section and business intelligence that are aimed at improving efficiency and form a basis of informed decision making.
• To lead and empower the team, by offering inspiration, motivation, skills, training, mentoring, and leadership.
• To manage the team and ensure the entire department remains responsive, effective, disciplined and always energized.
• To discuss and engage with the management of strategic ways forward for the company.
• Any other tasks that are delegated by the GM or MD.

The Candidate:

• Leadership: The candidate must be one who can take full responsibility for a task or function, own it fully and see it to the final resolution. This is the most important trait to have and with this trait, wherever the issue, it will get resolved. Must be able to work with minimal supervision and a high sense of responsibility and one who gives feedback pro-actively. They must be able to lead with targeted focus as well as compassion. They must be able to understand people's emotions, seek feedback from the team often, and must be able to inspire, motivate and empower the team. This includes the ability to provide opportunity for team members to continuously grow, continuously learn and always be engaged. The candidate must be able to command authority over the team, and earn the respect of his/her team, through practicing mature, effective and compassionate leadership skills.
• Tech Savvy: The candidate should be IT savvy in their ability to put themselves in the seat of any one of their teammates, be able to gain confidence in using the online tracking portal and ancillary online tools, be able to accompany the technicians and be comfortable with the tasks they physically do on the customers trucks, assets and environments. This does not mean they need to be an engineer, or have a technical qualification per say. But they need to be able to be hands on, one that can roll up their sleeves and get a bit of grease and dust on them to learn the task, empathize with the team and as a result become a team player and earn the trust of the team.
• Customer Centric: The candidate must be passionate about Customer Satisfaction. They must internalize that everything we do, we do to gain customer confidence and to serve them well. It is the highest core value in the organization and one that can never be taken for granted.
• System Driven: The candidate must be methodical, systematic and thorough. This means they must have a particular focus on managing and building the systems that drive the organization, use and develop KPIs for every role and be able to track the improvements of KPIs over time, per team member and as a department. Shooting from the hip, however efficient, is not a sustainable and scalable trait.
• Strategic: The Candidate must be able to balance between pressing issues (fire fighting) as well as being strategic. This means the candidate must be able to formulate initiatives that will continuously improve how we do things, so that they are more efficient and deliver a better service to the customer. In this manner, they must be able to be analytical, must be able to seek root-causes of problems and put in place measures that will reduce the need for maintenance, reduce repeated visits and increase reliability of the service we provide. This includes developing the team and building capacity.
• Operational Excellence: The candidate must be able to manage an operation efficiently and in a well coordinated manner. This means they must be cost effective in their planning, must be system driven, must be able to plan activities well, arrange the team in an effective manner and prioritize tasks. Additionally, the candidate must be resourceful and innovative in overcoming challenges and be a creative problem solver.
• Driven & Energetic: The Candidate must have fire in their belly. They must be driven, have a positive and optimistic outlook and a pleasant personality.
• Communicator: The candidate must be able to communicate extremely well in both verbal and written format. They must be able to inspire and connect with their audience and sell their message in a clear, well articulated and convincing manner. This pertains to communicating with customers, peers and team members.

Type: Contract (Fixed Term)

Career Level: Senior Management

Positions: 1

Experience:

3 - 5 Years

Education: Bachelors

Profession: Customer Service

Industry: IT (Hardware / Networking)

Remuneration (Net): TZS

Date Posted: Jan 01, 2023

Apply Before: Apr 25, 2023

Skills Required

• Communication Tools (e.g. Skype, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc)
• Social Media (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc)
• Presentation Tools (e.g. Google Slides, Power Point, etc)

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