Service Manager

6 days ago


Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom myGwork Full time

This job is with Avaloq, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.


Job Description

As a member of the UK Service management team, you will be accountable for the successful management and maintenance of all IT systems and services provided to our UK SaaS clients; ensuring that IT services perform proficiently, with minimal downtime and to the highest level of customer (internal and external) satisfaction.

Your key tasks:

  • Act as the single point of contact for SaaS Services for one or more UK customers (Infrastructure, application support and development)

  • Coordinate Readiness Activities: Work with various teams to ensure all aspects of the product or service are ready for go live.

  • Ensure the delivery of Cloud and Infrastructure (C&I) and Application Management Services (AMS) according to the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) contracted to our customers

  • Regularly update, review or re-define SLAs with the customers and take responsibility for the external and internal communication in the event of a major incident

  • Coordinate the internal departments in order to drive remedial actions to harbour a continual service improvement ethos and regularly report on the services’ status to customers and to the Avaloq Management Team

  • Act as a supervisor for the implementation of the Service Management processes and proactively initiate actions required to maintain and/or improve the service level

  • Maintain effective communication with the customer(s) and the account managers and manage customer complaints, providing appropriate solutions; follow up to ensure resolution. Contribute to the increase of the customer satisfaction, through the “Voice of the Customer” portal.

  • Ensure tickets/requests raised contain the required documentation and follow defined SDLC processes.


Qualifications
  • Proven track record of successful delivery in a similar IT Service Management role; ITIL Certification and solid experience in incident , change and problem management

  • Robust analytical and strategic thinking, as well as the ability to grasp and document abstract and complex matters

  • You will have a well-developed result driven motivation with the ability to manage multiple time-sensitive and sometimes conflicting priorities

  • Teamwork and ability to share knowledge with the team you will possess exemplary stakeholder management and communication skills both written and verbal

  • Entrepreneurial spirit, persistence, affinity and love to strive for new challenges

  • It would be a real bonus if you have

  • Proven track record with matrix management in IT Operations support services


Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.
We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.



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