Service Delivery Manager at JAGAL Group

Jagal Group is a leading Nigerian conglomerate with operations in the Oil & Gas, Construction and Manufacturing industries. The company has been growing successfully over the past 40 years, and has become a valuable and respected contributor to the development of the country's economy.

Jagal Group - Our client, Rack Centre Limited is a new start-up Data Centre company in Nigeria. The company offer an integrated solution centre to provide Co-location data hosting services to telecommunication companies, banks, internet service providers and other companies within Nigeria, they require the services of the position below:

Job Title: Service Delivery Manager

Ref No: 255
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description
The role will be to lead the technical team responsible for Data Centre configuration, Space Planning, Transmission Planning and Integration.

Objective
Manage the delivery of services to RC Channel Partners promoting the continuous improvement of productivity, service quality and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for managing service delivery for all RC Channel Partners
• Provides a focus for SLA management and customer satisfaction across the relevant customer base.
• Ensure the information systems and the review structure for SLAs and client satisfaction are in place and effectively used
• Continuous and demonstrable improvement of productivity resulting in increased cost effectiveness and value.
• Be able to evidence these savings across relevant customer base
• Ensures and monitors that processes are in place to pro-actively protect consistent service quality through rigorous management of change control and acceptance into service procedures in line with Rack Centre Service Delivery governance guidance
• Ensures resources, capabilities and capacity to meet both existing and new business demand
• Provides expert problem management support to difficult, high profile customer issues and ensures root- cause analysis is conducted and a corrective action plan is followed through with any learning applied for future benefit
• Oversees the integration of all service delivery units and constantly improves the quality and inter-working of the whole "virtual" service team, including other Rack Centre service partners and suppliers to ensure a seamless end-to-end delivery of service for clients
• Ensures robust tools and - where relevant - technological platforms are in place to support customer environment and best service solution
• Motivates, develops and mentors other service delivery employees and managers where relevant
• Maximizes Channel Partners growth opportunities
• Champions team-working, re-use, knowledge sharing and promotes the increased use of Shared Services capability
• Provides support to new business opportunities.
• Takes an active role in bids and supports the transition and implementation of new business (including new service offers)

Requirements

• Strong client focus - ability to operate at prime customer contact level typically at senior manager/director level.
• Demonstrates a breadth and depth of operational service delivery management expertise, preferably in an international environment.
• Demonstrable experience of having designed and implemented significant productivity as well as customer satisfaction improvements
• Strong development focus - advocate of developing employees, teams and the business.
• Significant experience of leading and managing teams (including matrix management) within an operational service delivery or shared services environment
• Strong commercial and financial awareness, monitoring, co-ordination and budget ownership.
• Experience in outsourcing bids, from pre-sales to successful implementation, preferably including in an international setting.
• Thorough understanding of customer's business and market sector and able to use that knowledge to anticipate how future services offers need to evolve to meet customer requirements
• Strong communicator at all levels
• Systems and IT literate.
• Proven experience of contract negotiation and supplier management; experience of successfully integrating customer and operational requirements into supplier relationships
• Relevant university degree and/or professional qualifications (e.g. ITIL and PMP)
• Role model in performance standards and demonstrates and champions behaviour that is in line with HPOE.
  

Application Closing Date
Not Stated.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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