Director of IT Service Delivery

3 weeks ago

Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Oxford Nanopore Technologies Full time

We are seeking an experienced Director of IT Service Delivery to join our IT Operations and Services area to provide operational excellence for IAM and whose customers are Oxford Nanopore users both within Oxford and across our global ONT locations.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a leading biotechnology company headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

The company employs experts from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Provide direction and strategy for the related Service Management and Service Delivery functions within the department and have accountability for related policies and procedures.
  • Ensure that IT delivers appropriate and consistent levels of service to the business from both the internal teams and its suppliers at the right cost.
  • Responsible for the setting the direction and management of the Service Delivery Function including IT Support, IT Service Management, Vendor Management and Identity & Access Management across all ONT UK locations.
  • Act as the ambassador for the 'shift-left' strategy driving support costs to the lowest price point whilst measuring and ensuring that repeat incidents are eliminated and that customers are experiencing excellent service.
  • Develop and framework for service reporting and establish a roadmap to evolve this into KPI's and metrics that demonstrate Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) and value for money.
  • Driving force behind CSI and within the Service Improvement programme across IT.
  • Ensure that policies, procedures, governance and standards required to support the department function and to enable the business to achieve its goals.
  • Leader and influencer for global alignment & roadmaps for service desk, support & service management processes and service delivery model alignment where appropriate.
  • Manage the Service Delivery team and 3rd parties to deliver customer-focussed cost-effective business as usual support.
  • Responsible for ensuring timely resolution of incidents to agreed OLA's, root cause analysis of problems and implementations of changes to correct deficiencies in the current environment.
  • Senior escalation point for Service Delivery issues.
  • Establish monthly reporting for Technology service teams and drive ongoing review and improvement.
  • Ensure a central repository and artefacts for knowledge management is in place, maintained and leveraged on an ongoing basis.
  • Establish and maintain governance process with key suppliers and regular service reviews to ensure SLAs are met etc.
  • Creation & governance on standards & processes for service design, change and transition into support.
  • Actively seek to understand user/business needs & issues (both present & future) by managing relationships across the business.

Key Technical Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

  • Extensive experience in leading within a Service Delivery & ITIL environment and implementing ITIL/service management strategy & processes.
  • ITIL service management qualifications to at least intermediate level.
  • Previous extensive experience of leading a Service desk and End-User computing teams across multiple locations and time zones.
  • Commercially astute and strong business acumen.
  • Experience in dealing with all levels within the business from end users to the management board in a complex stakeholder environment and capable of presenting ideas, projects and businesses in a non-technical manner.
  • Experience & understanding of knowledge, service asset & configuration management.
  • Detailed understanding of Supplier Management with additional experience of multiple vendor and contract management.
  • Experienced manager of managers and business leader.

Behaviours required:

  • Highly customer focussed leader.
  • Strategic IT thinker and leader.
  • Passion for delivering quality service management through continual service improvement.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to communicate with non-technical staff over technical issues.
  • Strong proven management skills.
  • Enthusiastic and inspiring and able to deliver this through culture change backed up by on-time and on-budget project delivery.
  • High level of attention to detail, excellent team player and an ability to communicate at all levels.
  • High levels of integrity and ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment and provide leadership to those around them.
  • Effective communicator across all business levels with an ability to influence and engage.
  • Working flexibly and collaboratively.
  • Taking ownership and accountability.

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.

If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today.

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