IT Operations Lead

2 weeks ago

Slough, 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™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. 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.


Job Description:

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.


What are we looking for?

  • Essential: 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.
  • Essential: excellent stakeholder management skills


What will be your key responsibilities?


Major Incident Management:


  • Ensure major incidents are identified, prioritised, and managed within EMEA in line with Mars Policies and procedures.
  • Ensure Major Incident Prevention actions progress and leverage Problem Management process.
  • Stakeholder management - Accountable for regular status updates to stakeholders on progress for all Major Incidents.
  • Support the Mars follow-the-sun operating model, be part of out-of-hours IM and MIM on-call rota.
  • Facilitate post incident reviews (PIRs) and post change reviews (PCRs) when needed.


Customer Experience:

  • 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.
  • To implement strategies that enhance customer satisfaction.
  • Provide communication and act on behalf of IT Operations team.


Continuous Service Improvements:

  • 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.
  • Use Design Thinking and Problem-Solving methodologies to better understand and identify opportunities for improvement of processes and procedures.
  • 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.


Service Operations:

  • Provide Operational Excellence within Digital Technologies
  • Conduct Service Reviews with partners and Internal teams
  • 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


What can you expect from Mars?

  • Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
  • Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
  • 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.

#TBDDT


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. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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