Head of Service Delivery

Come and lead our way.

Join Intrum as Head of Service Delivery and play a key role in leading delivery for one of our most important client partnerships, driving outstanding outcomes for our client, customers, and colleagues. Grow your career by making a difference at Intrum.

At Intrum, we're driven by a clear purpose: helping people become debt free. As the market leader in credit management services, we partner with some of the UK's largest financial institutions to deliver outstanding customer outcomes through operational excellence, innovation, and expertise.

We're looking for an experienced Head of Service Delivery to lead one of our most significant client relationships, managing large-scale outsourced collections and recoveries operations on behalf of a major UK banking client. This is a high-profile role with accountability for operational performance, client satisfaction, commercial delivery, and regulatory compliance.

As the senior point of contact for the client, you'll build trusted partnerships, drive continuous improvement, and ensure the delivery of exceptional results for both the client and their customers. You'll lead a multi-functional operational team, balancing strategic relationship management with operational excellence to achieve sustainable growth and long-term success. You'll also play a key role in driving transformation, digitisation, automation and process improvement initiatives that enhance customer outcomes, operational efficiency and service performance.

What you'll do

• Act as the senior relationship lead for a strategic banking client, building trusted partnerships and driving long-term client satisfaction.
• Lead large-scale collections and recoveries operations, ensuring delivery against contractual commitments, service levels, and performance targets.
• Drive operational excellence through robust governance, performance management, and a strong focus on customer outcomes.
• Lead client governance forums, business reviews, and strategic planning activities, providing insight and direction.
• Identify and deliver opportunities for service improvement, operational efficiency, digital innovation, transformation, and business growth.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory, contractual, and governance requirements, including FCA and Consumer Duty expectations.
• Develop and inspire high-performing leadership teams, creating a culture of accountability, operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What you will bring

• Significant experience leading large-scale contact centre, collections, recoveries, customer operations, or outsourced service environments.
• Proven success managing strategic client relationships within a BPO, outsourcing, or financial services environment.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing client contracts, operational performance, and profitability.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility at senior and executive levels.
• Experience operating within a regulated environment and a strong understanding of customer outcomes, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Proven track record of delivering operational transformation, digitisation, automation, and performance improvement initiatives within large-scale customer operations or BPO environments.
• Experience embedding operational excellence disciplines, driving process optimisation, and leading teams through significant business and technology change.

Why Join Us? This is an opportunity to lead one of Intrum's most important client partnerships and make a real impact on business performance, customer outcomes, and client success. You'll have the autonomy to shape strategy, drive operational excellence, and build trusted relationships with a major UK banking client, all while being supported by an experienced leadership team.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and help us deliver outstanding service, strengthen strategic partnerships, and drive success for our clients and their customers.

How to apply:
If you are interested in this position and believe you have the right experience, please send your English CV via the "apply button". Are you curious and have some questions? You're welcome to contact "our recruitment team for more information.

About Intrum: Enabling financial health for people, businesses, and society. Intrum is Europe's leading credit management services provider, helping businesses secure payments while supporting consumers in regaining financial stability across 20 European countries. With 9,000 dedicated employees, we work every day to create sustainable financial solutions.

At Intrum we consider everybody to be leaders. We lead ourselves when collaborating to meet the needs of our clients and customers. We are all accountable to our actions as well as trust and care for each other. This makes us all leaders, independent of role or responsibility, and this is reflected in our three leadership principles: Deliver Impact, Inspire Trust and Embrace Growth.