IT Operations Lead

2 weeks ago


Slough Berkshire, United Kingdom Mars Full time

IT Operations Lead / Major Incident Manager
Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 130,000 Diverse Associates to act daily towards creating the world we want tomorrow.

The jobholder is responsible for Service Excellence for IT Operations in EMEA time zone, providing technical leadership to reduce the impact of Major Incidents and improve IT Service Delivery and excellent end-to-end customer experience.
This role is required to support the two operational hubs and be a point of contact for EMEA business segments for Major Incidents and escalations.

Senior Major Incident Manager or IT Operations Lead to support Mars Follow-the-sun operating model.
Essential: An escalation point for First- and Second-line support across EMEA Segments with a particular focus on Major Incident Management.
Ensure major incidents are identified, prioritised, and managed within EMEA in line with Mars Policies and procedures.
Support the Mars follow-the-sun operating model, be part of out-of-hours IM and MIM on-call rota.
Play key customer service role covering the end-to-end customer experience in EMEA region.
Monitor Customer experience with IT services in the most appropriate, consistent and efficient way.
Help ensure that IT processes, techniques, tools, ways of working, self-service and contact solutions meet the needs of EMEA Customers and Segments
Monitor regional results on XLA across EMEA region.
Foster a collaborative environment, working closely with business users, Transformational programs, Customer Experience team, Segment Digital Technologies team, Finance team, Enterprise Architect team, Operation Excellence team, Infrastructure team and other application functional teams to streamline processes and governance.
Provide communication and act on behalf of IT Operations team.

Identify Automation opportunities to reduce manual efforts across IT Ops team.
Contribute to the DIGITAL IT Transformation Programme to move from traditional channels (calls and emails) to digital channels (self-service, chat bot, artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation)
Leverage data to drive decisions and improve operational excellence.
Ensure Security compliance and Data Privacy for any Service Operations delivery.
Use Problem Management and preventative measures to drive quality of root cause identification, remediation and longer-term fixes.

Provide Operational Excellence within Digital Technologies
Monitor service desk performance metrics and KPIs, identify trends, and implement corrective actions as needed.
Contribute to the DIGITAL IT Transformation Programme to move from traditional channels (calls and emails) to digital channels (self-service, chat bot, artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation)
Leverage data to drive decisions and improve operational excellence

Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
#Disclaimer: Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request.


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