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ID #45150782
State Illinois
City Chicago
Job type Permanent
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source IT Associates, Inc.
Showed 2022-08-25
Date 2022-08-24
Deadline 2022-10-23
Category Et cetera
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IT Service Manager ( ITIL / ITSM)

Illinois, Chicago, 60290 Chicago USA

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IT Service Manager
  • Direct hire / FTE
  • Hybrid ( Once/Twice a month in the office downtown Chicago )
  • Our client is a financial trading platform recently bought over by CRYPTO.com.
  • Reports to Service Delivery Lead.
  • Low volume of Tickets max up to 5 during week and up to 2 on weekends. Critical Incidents are rare (1-3 a year)
Client’s Service Management team are responsible for owning and administering the Service Management functions. The goal of the team is to provide processes that govern our IT estate and support our business. The team is responsible for ensuring that risk to their environments is limited through the management of our ITIL processes. This role will be responsible for owning the IT Service Delivery relationship with our client and its Managed Service Providers while ensuring the smooth running of the Client’s IT Services.

The successful applicant for this role must have strong customer and stakeholder management skills, and a strong understanding of IT Service Management Processes. They will act as an Account Manager between the business, Managed Services, and the IT departments within client responsible for providing Business-as -usual IT Services and to ensure that excellent working and strategic relationships are developed and maintained. They will be responsible for managing the relationships with key IT departments and ensure that the IT Service delivered is fit for purpose and meets contractual obligations.

Responsibilities include:
  • To set up, own and develop highly effective relationships with the our client’s business, our client’s IT, and managed service providers.
  • Understand changing needs to identify and implement service improvement initiatives and work with internal IT teams to deliver this
  • Prioritize incidents to ensure they are dealt with relevant to their business impact.
  • Understand the commercial operating model for our client and its customers and use this to oversee smooth IT Service Delivery
  • Agree IT Service reporting, based on KPI’s defined in IT Service contracts
  • Be seen as the “Go To” person for all IT related queries by allocated customer groups
  • Ensuring service incidents are managed quickly and efficiently to positive conclusions, maintaining communication channels throughout. Includes taking ownership and/or acting as an escalation point for customers for high priority cases requiring immediate action and for ensuring post incident follow up is complete.
  • Communicating and working with business colleagues and other Service Managers to recognize and deliver initiatives for service improvement.
  • Capture negative feedback and follow up to ensure it is dealt with appropriately
  • Arrange and chair weekly release and post release meetings, and provide agendas to support this governance process
  • Update and present IT Service Management report in monthly IT Risk meeting
  • Work alongside local leadership and compliance teams to ensure data required post incident is provided in a timely manner.
  • Advise on future changes and deployments that will impact service availability and ensure that the customer impact is minimized.
  • Managing key relationships across Technology and the business to deliver IT services
  • Ensure that the relevant IT Teams have performed the proper root cause analysis, documented the workarounds and known errors, the issue has been resolved and the appropriate processes were followed
  • To be mindful of cultural differences depending on the customer geographical location

Essential Skills and Attributes:
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • 2+ Years’ experience in globally dispersed Service Management teams
  • 2+ Years managing IT customers in a fast moving CD/CI environment (preferably within a financial services environment)
  • Experience working with different geographical locations and cultures
  • Experience of managing a wide spectrum of stakeholders and demonstrate an ability to manage upwards ·
  • Ability to manage, prioritize and successfully execute multiple tasks and activities
  • Demonstrate cross-group collaboration and organization skills
  • Eager to learn and quick to learn
  • Interest in financial products
  • Ability to lead technical conversations with various technical support groups
  • Calm under pressure through demanding challenges.
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to follow processes and procedures
  • Ability to adapt to changes in processes and products
  • Ability to resolve problems and own issues until full resolution · ITIL V3 Foundation level

Desirable Skills:
  • Previous experience in managing customers across a fast-moving SDLC lifecycle ITIL processes and terminology consistent with having completed an ITIL Practitioner level course or be qualified to ITIL V3 Expert level
  • Experience of working in a global organization and servicing high value/global customers in different geographical locations and be aware of the cultural challenges this brings Experience of delivering within a multiple service support team, in a complex business environment

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