We are seeking a seasoned Service Manager to oversee and drive the operational excellence of our enterprise-level digital platforms. In this role, you will manage day-to-day service delivery through third-party vendors, ensure platform stability and performance, and collaborate across technical and business functions. This is a high-impact role that combines technical oversight with strategic vendor and stakeholder management.
Job description
- Manage the end-to-end operations of enterprise digital platforms, ensuring service availability, performance, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee and manage vendors responsible for performing daily operations, handling incidents, and fulfilling service requests.
- Support in technical solutions and validate the vendor implementations from a technical prospective.
- Act as the primary point of contact between internal stakeholders and vendor teams.
- Monitor vendor performance against SLAs and KPIs, and initiate corrective actions as necessary.
- Review and approve operational procedures, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and best practices.
- Coordinate and oversee service request fulfillment, incident management, problem management, and change management activities
- Collaborate with internal platform owners, infrastructure teams, and security teams to ensure operational alignment.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the service operations function.
- Prepare and present regular operational reports and vendor performance reports to senior management.
- Participate in capacity planning, scalability assessments, and service readiness reviews for new and existing platforms.
- Support contract management activities, including service renewals, performance reviews, and negotiations.
Qualification and Education Requirement:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- ITIL v3/v4 Certification (preferred).
Minimum Experience/Skills Required:
- 10+ years of experience in IT industry , digital platform operations, software development and technical team leading .
- Strong technical background in programming technologies such as .Net core, MS Sql Server, JavaScript technologies (node js , Angular , react), Azure / AWS cloud.
- Proven experience managing outsourced vendors and ensuring operational excellence.
- Solid understanding of ITIL frameworks (certification is a plus).
- Experience in managing SLAs, KPIs, and operational governance processes.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- ITIL v3/v4 Certification.
- Experience with service management tools like ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, or similar.
- Familiarity with cloud services (Azure, AWS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) operations.
- Experience in governance, risk management, and compliance related to IT operations.