IT Service Desk Manager

2 weeks ago


Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom Kuoni Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced IT Service Desk Manager to lead our team and drive excellent customer service.

Key Responsibilities

  • Supervise and lead a team of 6 direct reports, ensuring effective day-to-day management and leadership.
  • Monitor holiday leave, sickness, and lateness across the team to maintain adequate cover.
  • Ensure team members are trained and aware of new solutions before implementation.
  • Develop direct reports through training, mentoring, coaching, and regular performance reviews.
  • Manage staff development and succession planning as required.
  • Monitor and organize tickets according to priority, ensuring timely updates from service desk engineers.
  • Review service desk work levels, identifying ageing cases, quality, and activity levels, and flagging potential risks to service levels.
  • Handle customer escalations, resolving issues or escalating to management as needed.
  • Support service desk engineers with daily activities, advising on best practices and further actions for tickets.
  • Ensure adherence to current processes and procedures within the service desk team.
  • Analyze incidents to identify potential trending problems.
  • Support management of P1 incidents and outages.
  • Effectively manage customer expectations, ensuring quick and effective escalation handling.
  • Be proactive in undertaking reasonable duties to ensure departmental success.
  • Participate in project management of new business applications and systems, ensuring support frameworks are in place before 'Go Live'.
  • Contribute to the improvement of IT's perception as a facilitator of process and service improvement.
  • Lead the Change Management process for the service desk in the weekly CAB, ensuring smooth and efficient request handling.

Requirements

  • Minimum 3-year experience in an IT Service Desk role, with team leadership experience.
  • Excellent understanding of Service Management and ITIL.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills in client infrastructure and application support.
  • Relevant IT Service Desk experience or IT Desktop Support experience.
  • Sound knowledge of User & Security Groups and Active Directory Administration.
  • Proven ability to support customers across a broad technical environment, covering hardware and software.
  • Basic understanding of Microsoft Windows 10/11, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office, Active Directory Administration, RDS environments, and Image Deployment (SCCM).
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, driving local end-user communication.
  • Excellent Customer Service Skills.

Desirable

  • ITIL Foundation v3 or ITIL Intermediate Certifications.
  • Power Automate experience.
  • Delivering training to people within a technical environment.
  • Experience in resolving complex issues.
  • Highly organized.
  • Ability to multi-task.
  • Assertive, confident, positive, and professional manner.
  • Ability to deal with potentially stressful situations.
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

Personal Qualities

  • A self-motivated achiever who gains satisfaction from providing excellent customer service.
  • Strong Customer focus and 'Can Do' attitude.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent people management skills.
  • A proactive and positive work approach.
  • Ability to work under pressure, take ownership of issues, multitask, and prioritize.

What We Offer

  • Opportunity to work for a leading travel company.
  • Competitive salary.
  • Perkbox - discounts and rewards programme.
  • Company matched pension scheme - up to 5%.
  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (increases with length of service).
  • Enjoy your birthday off.
  • Free annual travel insurance, which includes your family and/or partner.
  • Long service bonuses.
  • Free eye tests.
  • Flexible hybrid working trial.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Discounted Holidays and prize draws.


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