End User Services Manager - Hillsborough, Northern Ireland

About The Role

END USER SERVICES MANAGER - Permanent role

DIVISION: Central

LOCATION: Hillsborough, Northern Ireland - Hybrid working available.

Benefits: Subsidised Private Medical Cover; Life Assurance Scheme, Contributory Pension, 35 Days annual leave (Including Public Holidays)

As End User Services Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the day-to-day IT experience for colleagues across the business. You'll lead the delivery and continuous improvement of critical IT services, including the service desk, field services, end-user computing, device lifecycle management and wider support functions, ensuring every interaction is reliable, secure and customer-focused.

You'll be at the heart of driving service excellence, overseeing operational performance, leading major incident response, managing supplier partnerships and ensuring support teams are empowered to perform at their best. Working closely with the Head of IT Services, you'll use data, insight and user feedback to identify opportunities for improvement, enhance service quality and deliver measurable value to the business.

This is an exciting opportunity for a customer-centric IT leader who thrives on creating seamless user experiences, leading high-performing teams and making a tangible impact across a growing organisation.

Please note:

• Some travel to other sites may be necessary.
• Provision of support, outside normal working hours may be required to minimise business disruption and downtime.

Role breakdown:

Service Delivery and Operations

• Lead the overall operation and performance of IT support services across service desk, field services, end-user computing and related support functions
• Ensure effective management of incidents, service requests, escalations and service communications across support tiers
• Monitor daily service performance and take action to maintain service quality, responsiveness and customer satisfaction
• Oversee field service delivery across offices, regional locations and project sites to ensure a consistent and effective support model

Service Performance and Major Incident Management

• Act as the operational owner

for service quality, ensuring SLAs, KPIs and customer experience

measures are defined, monitored, reported and improved

• Lead major incident management

for high-priority service issues, coordinating response activity,

communications, restoration and post-incident actions

• Use reporting, trend analysis,

root cause insight, user feedback and operational data to drive

continual service improvement

• Produce clear service reports

and recommendations for the Head of IT Services and relevant stakeholders

People Leadership and Team Management

• Provide leadership to direct

reports and wider service teams through clear objectives, performance

management, coaching, development and engagement

• Plan resources effectively to

support business demand, regional coverage, project activity and

operational priorities

• Build a high-performing,

customer-focused team

that demonstrates ownership, collaboration and

accountability

• Maintain effective knowledge

sharing, support documentation and operational handover practices

Device and End-User Lifecycle Management

• Manage the end-user device

lifecycle, including standards, deployment, refresh, recovery,

stock control and asset accuracy

• Ensure onboarding,

provisioning, access requests and leaver processes are completed consistently

and in line with agreed controls

• Support modern workplace

improvements including self-service, automation,

endpoint management and knowledge management adoption

Service Governance, Security and Compliance

• Maintain and improve IT service

management processes aligned to ITIL principles, including incident, request,

problem, change, asset and knowledge management

• Ensure

services operate in line with security, patching,

compliance, audit and policy requirements, escalating risks and gaps

where appropriate

• Support service reviews, audit

activity, operational risk management and policy compliance across

support services

Supplier, Commercial and Service Transition Support

• Manage third-party service

providers and support partners to ensure performance, value for money,

contractual compliance and effective escalation management

• Contribute to budget planning

and cost control for operational services including hardware, licensing,

support contracts and improvement activity

• Support business change by

ensuring operational readiness, service transition, documentation and

handover arrangements are in place for new or changed services

Person Specification

Essential

• Significant

experience in IT service delivery, service operations or IT

support management within a multi-site environment

• Proven

experience leading service desk, field services,

end-user computing or similar operational support team

• Demonstrable

people management experience, including performance management, coaching,

team development and workload planning

• Strong

working knowledge of ITIL-based service management practices including

incident, request, problem, change, asset and knowledge management

• Experience

managing major incidents, service escalations, operational risk and

service performance reporting

• Experience

driving service improvement using metrics, trend analysis, root

cause investigation and customer feedback

• Experience

working with third-party suppliers or managed service providers, including

service reviews and performance management

• Strong

stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills

• Strong

analytical, organisational and problem-solving capability

• Ability

to prioritise effectively in a demanding operational environment

• Good

understanding of information security, data protection,

asset management and operational controls

Desirable

• ITIL

certification or equivalent service management qualification

• Experience of budget

management, cost control, procurement or licence and asset oversight

• Experience

supporting service transition, operational readiness or

implementation of new technologies and services

• Relevant

management, leadership or technical qualifications

This job description is intended to give the post holder an appreciation of the role envisaged for the End User Services Manager. It does not attempt to detail every activity. Specific tasks and objectives will be agreed with the post holder at regular intervals.

Our Commitment to you:

At GRAHAM, we are proud to say that we are a committed Equal Opportunities Employer and we aim to be the first choice for people from all backgrounds. We seek to promote respect for the individual and equality of opportunities. We believe that everyone should be treated solely on the basis of personal merit and contribution throughout their GRAHAM career journey and not on the value of artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences.

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