Service Manager

IT Service Manager

Salary: £65,000 per annum, plus company benefits

Location: Remote with visits to Norwich site, initially for 2 days per week

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Shifts: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 9am until 5:30pm with 1 hours unpaid lunch break

Work model: Hybrid

Williams Lea seeks a Service Manager to lead our team!

Williams Lea is the leading global provider of tech-enabled business and marketing services helping clients manage and transform processes through resilient, scalable 24/7 operations. We combine deep expertise, agentic AI-imbedded workflows, and a global delivery model into a tech-enabled, seamless human expert-in-the-loop experience that helps clients achieve superior business outcomes.

Built on a strong heritage and great client relationships, we harness deep industry expertise, emerging technology and our global “Optishore™” delivery model to plan, build, execute and measure business processes, driving operational agility and digital transformation at speed and scale.

Williams Lea, an RRD company, serves clients in 20 countries across four continents and has 15,000 employees worldwide.

Purpose of role 

• This is a technology platform service management role, responsible for the day-to-day service management processes and the broader service management strategy for the business. The postholder is responsible for all ITIL based policies and process, owning the KPI reporting cycle, governs incident response, and produces the management information.
  
  Overall aims:
   
• All contractual KPIs met or exceeded, service credit exposure minimised
• End-to-end incident management owned, from triage to incident report sign-off
• Monthly Contract Board MI produced accurately and on time
• Continuous improvement in service quality, process efficiency, and security compliance
• Focused on client satisfaction and reduced escalations and improved root-cause outcomes

Key responsibilities 

Client and Service Management

• Serve as the primary operational contact for client stakeholders, ensuring clear and timely communication.
• Monitor and manage delivery against SLAs, KPIs, and contractual commitments.
• Conduct regular client calls, governance reviews, and reporting sessions.
• Own the P1/P2 escalation, produce all required incident reports and maintain the incident log
• Analyse call data monthly to identify trends, repeat issues, and systemic platform risks
• Track and resolve client escalations, ensuring root-cause analysis and prevention plans.

Operational Performance

• Own the full KPI measurement and reporting cycle across all contractual KPIs; produce the monthly Board report pack including performance dashboards, RAG commentary, trend analysis, and financial MI
• Maintain the platform risk registers; track service credit events and escalate threshold risks to the AD’s in advance of client reviews
• Track patch compliance SLAs (Critical = 1 week, High = 30 days); maintain the software component and security catalogue; coordinate the annual NCSC CHECK penetration test and Cyber Essentials Plus recertification
• Coordinate adaptive and corrective maintenance scheduling with the Delivery Manager and Lead Architect, ensuring platform obligations are visible and on track
• Analyse service data and trends to identify risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Support forecasting, capacity planning, and resource allocation

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and motivate technical teams to ensure service management is embedded from requirements, through design and onto delivery

Continuous Improvement & Compliance

• Drive process improvement initiatives, standardisation, and best practice sharing across the operation.
• Support automation and digital enablement activities.
• Ensure compliance with client requirements, internal policies, data security, and regulatory standards.

Personal skills and experience

• Applies ITIL incident, problem, and change management rigorously. Ensures the Service Desk operates to contractual SLAs at all times. Distinguishes reactive incident resolution from proactive problem management
• Comfortable within a formal government contract structure. Understands KPI frameworks, service credit regimes, and reporting obligations. Produces board-quality MI. Contributes confidently at Contract Board meetings
• Rapid, structured incident responder. Manages contractual escalation timelines with precision. Produces clear, factual incident reports that satisfy internal and government client governance requirements
• Turns platform performance data into accurate, concise Contract Board reports. Identifies KPI risks before they become service credit events. Comfortable with dashboards, trend analysis, and incident pattern recognition
• Clear, professional communicator in formal governance settings. Manages client expectations during incidents calmly and accurately. Writes reports that stand alone without verbal explanation
• Proactively identifies service improvement opportunities. Challenges legacy processes. Introduces changes that reduce risk, improve response times, or improve governance quality.
• Understands Cyber Essentials Plus, ISMS principles, and vulnerability management well enough to coordinate compliance activities across technical teams and track contractual security obligations.

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Rewards and Benefits

We believe in supporting our employees in both their professional and personal lives. As part of our commitment to your well-being, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays(pro-rata for part time or fixed term roles)
• Salary sacrifice schemes, retail vouchers – including our TechScheme which can be used on a range of gadgets such as Smart TV’s, laptops and computers or household appliances.
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Health Assessments
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Discounted gym memberships
• Referral Scheme

You will also have the opportunity to work for a global employer who is dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects!

Equality and Diversity

The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (each of these being a “protected characteristic” in discrimination law). It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values openness, fairness and transparency.

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