Job Description

Team Leader - IT Service Desk

Location

London

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Ref #

10054201

Description & Requirements

The Role

We’re looking for a London based Team Leader to lead our EMEA Service Desk, within Employee Technology Support. You will own team performance, development, service delivery and escalations while ensuring a consistent, high-quality employee experience.

You will combine strong people leadership with technical and operational expertise, demonstrating end-to-end ownership, acting early on risk and using data, learning and root cause analysis to prevent repeat issues. You will work as part of one ETS team, partnering across Support, Engineering, Infrastructure and Product to improve tools, processes and service outcomes.

We’ll Trust You To

• - Lead, coach and develop a high performing Service Desk team, creating shared accountability and continuous learning
• - Manage workload, escalations and service performance, with the employee experience at the center of decision making
• - Act as an escalation point for complex technical and operational issues, ensuring issues are fully diagnosed and followed through to resolution
• - Identify recurring issues, knowledge gaps, reuse learning and drive root cause fixes that reduce repeat demand
• - Act early on operational risks and communicate clearly with employees, stakeholders and partner teams
• - Drive knowledge, self-service, automation and process standardisation to improve service quality and efficiency
• - Partner effectively across ETS, Engineering, Infrastructure and Product, sharing context and ownership
• - Use service data to identify improvement opportunities and influence changes to tools, processes and policy
• - Maintain strong governance across tickets, documentation, procedures and service management practices
• - Support recruitment, resource planning and an inclusive, accountable team culture

You’ll Need To Have

• - 5+ years’ experience in IT support or service delivery, including 1+ year in a leadership role
• - Proven experience coaching, developing and performance managing technical support teams
• - Strong understanding of incident, request, problem, change and knowledge management practices
• - Strong enterprise technology knowledge across desktop, mobile, software, networking, VPN, peripherals and endpoint security
• - Strong judgement, problem solving, communication and stakeholder management skills
• - A track record of operating independently, taking end-to-end ownership and influencing improvements beyond your immediate team
• - Experience managing SLAs, KPIs, escalations and operational performance
• - Experience working successfully in a global, cross-functional support environment

We’d Love To See

• - ITIL v4 Foundation certification
• - Experience delivering automation, self-service or workflow improvements
• - Experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams
• - Experience supporting a global 24/7 service model

If indicated, please note that years of experience are a guide; we will consider applications from all candidates who can demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.

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