Manager – Service Desk – Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Job Overview

Job Title: Manager – Service Desk

Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Job Purpose: 

• To lead the service desk team and operations ensuring on-time-performance and best support services are provided to end users aligned to agreed SLA through the various channels. Also, to source for, train, and monitor the performance of resources in line with company’s commercial and operational objectives and business needs, set measures, and client’s adopted policies and procedures
• Impact: Provides daily monitoring and guidance to the support service desk team to ensure accurate and timely customer service and prompt maintenance of IT assets and services. Poor performance of this role might lead to discontinuity of operations and clients’ dissatisfaction and thereby to compromising company’s interests and image.

Qualifications (Academic, training, languages, etc.)

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent.
• CCNP/ CCIE/ MCSE/ RHEL ITIL Certification are advantage.
• Fluent in English Language

Work Experience/Other Competencies

• 6-8 years in IT environment, with 2-4 years of which managing the service desk, 24×7 critical operations preferably in aviation.
• ITIL advance is a must
• Experienced in help desk and remote-control software is a must.
• Solid technical back ground with an ability to give instructions to a non-technical audience.
• Customer-service oriented with an ability to motivate own team to achieve specific goals.
• Proven record in implementing and monitoring infrastructure projects.
• Proven skills in carrying out bug fixes and applying patches.
• Experienced in managing operations and technology platforms – both internally and externally hosted.
• Proven skills in analyzing data, identifying pitfalls and recommending solutions.
• Possesses effective persuasive, negotiation, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Employs technical expertise and interpersonal skills to execute new initiatives and achieve company’s objectives.
• Demonstrates the ability to contribute and successfully deliver against business strategy and set KPIs.

Key Result Responsibilities

• Leads the service desk team to carry out customer support operations properly and promptly, monitors
• and evaluates the overall performance to ensure problems are timely responded to and accurately
• Ensures all problems and gaps handled by the service desk are rightly identified and appropriate technical/non-technical solutions are applied.
• Establishes/maintains excellent relationships with clients, stakeholders, business users, suppliers, vendors and other ISA teams to ensure improvements in the products and services provided to ISA clients and to resolve any problems.
• Develops and implements customer service delivery standards to better serve ISA’s vision, mission and business requirements and to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty. Partners with line managers to drive related activities results, bringing on board highest level of creativity in service.
• Creates support knowledge base by managing the development and communication of IT support manuals, technical notes and articles to clients in line with SLAs.
• Contributes to improving customer support by actively responding to queries and managing complaints directly or through the service desk team; provides clients’ feedback to the different ISA teams.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of processes and service level agreements of incidents management and service requests management.
• Ensures a complete and accurate database of IT assets within ISA is established and maintained, and all security, integrity, and business continuity controls and documents are being applied within the respective area.
• Provides necessary support and guidance in evaluating, testing, and implementing new technology such as systems and platforms. Participates in different projects as required.
• Ensures proper recording and closure of all claims; develops daily, weekly and monthly reports on help desk team’s productivity.
• Identifies and manages the service desk budget estimates/expenditure in line with ISA’s guiding principles. Provides required support on budget issues to the Head of Operations as needed.
• Partners with HR to set objectives and identify KPIs for the respective team members; ensures his/her subordinates are fully aware and knowledgeable of their targets.  Provides on-going support and supervision to the team members to assist them achieve their goals and bridge any gaps identified.
• Conducts regular reviews and assessment for the function related work flow and operating procedures to enhance the process and maximize productivity.
• Performs any other additional duties as directed by the head of the department/management.
• Demonstrates continual improvement in Service Desk performance leveraging people, process and technologies.
• Aligns the Service Desk to ITIL best practices leading to eventual accreditation in 18 months

NOTE: ONLY SHORTLISTD CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED.

Please send your CV to pragna@mbrworldwide.com