Managed Services Operations Manager

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa NTT Full time

Continue to make an impact with a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. At NTT DATA, we are renowned for our technical excellence, leading innovations, and making a difference for our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion â itâs a place where you can continue to grow, belong, and thrive.

Your career here is about believing in yourself and seizing new opportunities and challenges. Itâs about expanding your skills and expertise in your current role and preparing yourself for future advancements. Thatâs why we encourage you to take every opportunity to further your career within our great global team.

Grow Your Career with NTT DATA

Oversees the technical support of company customers by field engineers, technicians, and support specialists, who are diagnosing, troubleshooting, and repairing one or more of the following: complex electro/mechanical equipment, sophisticated computer systems, software systems/applications, or networking and wireless networking systems. Supervises engineers that respond to situations where standard procedures have failed to isolate or fix problems in non-functioning equipment systems or software. Establishes and maintains lines of communication with design engineering and software development on design, reliability and maintenance issues. Ensures that engineers are current with the latest upgrades and/or new releases. May be involved in customer installation and training programs. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

What you'll be doing

The Managed Services (MS) Operations Manager operates as part of the Cloud Services Division and is accountable for service delivery in CSD in the provision of the highest level of client satisfaction and the successful continuance of business operations within NTT. 

They assist with the planning, building and support of delivering managed services and work with regional and local teams to meet business objectives.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

  • Proactively monitor and drive service delivery to clients from CSD.
  • Manage client incidents by investigating and providing solutions that help solve client problems as escalated by team leaders and engineers in CSD.
  • Work with client advocacy teams to evaluate regional client reviews to ensure proactive incident management at client sites
  • Ensure that the standard client information repository related to technology, operations manuals, etc is current and accurate
  • Create and maintain a comprehensive list of client requirements, the scope of deliverables, technology and the delivery model
  • Run the managed services operations in alignment with the service management service operations (SMSO) process, delivering promised outcomes to our clients.
  • Provide operational support and continuous service improvement post client handover from TS (or other) teams.
  • Plan and implement training and development initiatives for direct reports
  • Review training requirements for service operations teams
  • Engage with clients for technical operations as part of routine operations
  • Plan and implement key service improvement priorities based on a continual service improvement approach
  • Feed continual service improvement priorities into the automation team
  • Lead the team in the implementation of strategic initiatives
  • Measure, analyse and improve teamâs delivery capabilities
  • Ensure that tracking and monitoring of the performance of service delivery through all channels (human, digital, self-service, automated) is carried out, metrics and reports are analysed, and issues are resolved
  • Responsible for the day to day running of CSD POD in line with the performance established by the business
  • Ensure maximum uptime and the accurate and early response to client operational issues
  • Responsible for resource planning and work allocation to meet agreed service levels
  • Identify opportunities for continuous service improvement
  • Engage with clients for technical operations as part of routine operations

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes

  • Excellent organisational and team leadership skills
  • Excellent communication skills â both verbal and written
  • Ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders and external clients
  • Ability to understand budgets and cost management
  • Strong leadership skills including effective time management, prioritisation and delegation of work
  • Excellent focus on client centricity
  • Highly focused on business outcomes
  • Ability to guide the team through transformational objectives set out by the business
  • Ability to communicate and work across different cultures and social groups
  • Ability to work well in a pressurised environment
  • Ability to adapt to changing circumstances

Academic Qualifications and Certifications

  • Typically requires substantial related experience with a Bachelorâs or equivalent degree; or extensive experience
  • ITIL certification
  • Relevant technical certifications 

Required Experience

  • Substantial experience in coaching and mentoring teams on a daily basis
  • Demonstrated experience in implementation of continual service improvement in previous roles (through automation, process enhancements, etc)
  • Demonstrated experience in organisational change management (transformational experience)
  • Substantial experience in the management of people, process and technology
  • Relevant experience in Data Centre or Collaboration or Microsoft 0365 stack
  • Good understanding of Azure, AWS, Networks, Storage, Virtualization

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

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