Role Overview Reporting to the CIO, you will own, lead and grow the IAM Cloud Support Desk - the front line of contact for customer product support, and in time, for our internal IT also. You’ll be responsible for the oversight of all Desk operations and ensuring efficient, professional and consistent resolution of incoming incidents, issues and queries. You’ll bring demonstrable leadership experience, having led and grown comparable teams, ideally for a similar SaaS provider.
Initially, you’ll be focused on our existing Customer Support desk, handling incoming customer contact.
Responsibilities include:
- Defining and embedding best practices for Support Desk operations; ticket handling, categorisation, prioritisation, routing, escalation, and closure
- Driving functional performance through appropriate use of metrics, root-cause analysis and backlog management
- Foster a continuous learning environment; ensuring knowledge gained from issues and product investigations improves Support through documentation, runbooks and training
- Optimising the use of our tooling suite, ensuring usage and configuration best practice
- Coaching, mentoring and performance managing our Technical Support Engineers
- Working closely with our internal teams to close feedback loops, improve product quality, and reduce recurrence of issues
- Acting as senior escalation point, owning communications during incidents and major issues
- Championing a customer-first mindset and striving to create a Centre of Excellence in Support
- Ensuring the Support Desk remains compliant with data protection responsibilities and Information Security requirements
Within six months, your scope will expand to the management of the internal IT function and technical accountability for the IT estate, with responsibilities including:
- Delivery of the end-user computing estate: ensuring corporate devices and applications are correctly provisioned, maintained, supported and managed throughout their lifecycle
- Administration of the Microsoft 365 environment, ensuring configuration remains secure, supportable and aligned with Microsoft best practice
- Ownership of endpoint and remote-management capabilities; defining and maintaining policies, configuration standards, patching controls and monitoring
- Maintaining IT asset and software-management controls, ensuring accurate lifecycle records across the technology estate
- Providing support for the security of the end-user computing and Microsoft 365 environments to ensure appropriate security controls, endpoint protection, monitoring and incident remediation