Service Desk Operations Manager

Milestone Technologies

San Francisco, CA

Pay: $110,000-$115,000/yr

**Company Overview**

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Milestone Technologies is a global IT managed services firm that partners with organizations to scale their technology, infrastructure and services to drive specific business outcomes such as digital transformation, innovation, and operational agility. Milestone is focused on building an employee-first, performance-based culture and for over 25 years, we have a demonstrated history of supporting category-defining enterprise clients that are growing ahead of the market. The company specializes in providing solutions across Application Services and Consulting, Digital Product Engineering, Digital Workplace Services, Private Cloud Services, AI/Automation, and ServiceNow. Milestone culture is built to provide a collaborative, inclusive environment that supports employees and empowers them to reach their full potential.

Our seasoned professionals deliver services based on Milestone’s best practices and service delivery framework. By leveraging our vast knowledge base to execute initiatives, we deliver both short-term and long-term value to our clients and apply continuous service improvement to deliver transformational benefits to IT. With Intelligent Automation, Milestone helps businesses further accelerate their IT transformation. The result is a sharper focus on business objectives and a dramatic improvement in employee productivity. Through our key technology partnerships and our people-first approach, Milestone continues to deliver industry-leading innovation to our clients. With more than 3,000 employees serving over 200 companies worldwide, we are following our mission of revolutionizing the way IT is deployed.

**Job Overview**

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Milestone Technologies is looking for a passionate, self-motivated Service Desk Operations Manager who brings a wealth of people management, knowledge and expertise.

Our ideal candidate will have a broad skill set including strong relationship management and negotiations skills, people leadership and development, analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for helping create a world class service experience for our client and their global users. You must be willing to challenge the status quo in order to help improve existing workflows and processes to enhance customer experience. Experience in client service management, analytics, strategic thinking, negotiations and operations are required. We are looking for a smart, analytical and innovative leader who can help solve these problems in a scalable way and will support rapid growth and our client’s long-term business strategy under the guidance from our Global Service Operations Management Team.

• Plan, develop, and evaluate client program.
• In addition to standard metrics (FCR, CSAT, MTTR), define key operational metrics, develop reporting infrastructure, set targets and continuously improve
• Utilizing Jira Service Desk and other tools, produce and present operational metrics weekly to IT Leadership
• Collaborate with Milestone Human Resources on all personnel issues or questions
• Maintain documentation and process specific to the customer engagement
• Develop a strategic perspective of the service based on multiple levels of detailed operations information
• Foster and maintain an effective, positive team-based environment by coaching and communicating the corporate vision/values and setting and managing performance expectations
• Supervise staff and oversee work organized by team leaders
• Maintain agreed upon service level agreements
• Provide Milestone and the client with any updated program changes
• Ensure that all documentation is up-to-date and that all program participants are fully trained on processes and procedures
• Provide counseling of staff
• Ensure that performance evaluations of all staff are completed according to the Personnel Manual
• Determine the need for travel and training of all employees
• Interview, identify and hire the right people to make the team successful.
• Ensure staff training takes place and compliance can be reported

Required Skills:

• 4+ years Leadership Experience with IT Service Delivery specifically in Service Desk or NOC
• Previous experience working within a technical environment
• Knowledge of SLA achievement and methodology
• Understanding of ITIL principles
• Development and implementation of technical training programs
• Ability to drive tool and process improvement through innovation
• Leadership and core business/interpersonal skills
• Successful project management experience
• Ability to establish relationships with Business Teams
• Familiarity with common metrics used in the IT industry
• Ability to develop a strategic perspective of the service based on multiple levels of detailed operations information
• Excellent problem solving, communication, and organizational skills
• Experience leading programs within an IT Operations environment

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