Service Delivery Manager - Cape Town, South Africa - AVI Limited

AVI Limited

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa's leading and best-loved brands Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and centred on the FMCG market, AVI's extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our brands span a range of categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, footwear, accessories, and fashion apparel. We have a well-developed Shared Services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing, that allows us to take advantage of our scale. Our single-minded purpose is our brands' growth and development.

An exciting opportunity exists for a
Service Delivery Manager at
AVI Limited IT Shared Services in Cape Town.

The purpose of the role is to supervise and ensure the efficient and stable operation of the ITSS' Service Desk and its support of AVI's end-users.

This includes managing the team members responsible for the monitoring and diagnosing of IT Infrastructure and Applications as well as user-related IT issues and requests.

Line Manager:
Executive: Infrastructure Services

Direct Reports:
Agent Team Lead, Service Engineering Team Lead, Incident and Problem Coordinator, Authorisations Team Leader

Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

Management of performance and set direction and priorities of the Service Desk Teams, assigning clear accountability and performance expectations. Review performance and address underperformance when needed as they relate to both daily operations as well as projects. Lead the staff appraisal process and is directly accountable to the ITSS Infrastructure Executive.
Formulate and drive the implementation of key strategic projects and initiatives in line with ITSS objectives.
Ensure that the Service Desk support calls are resolved within SLA and where additional assistance is required, that the relevant teams including 3rd parties, are enrolled to assist and drive resolution
Play a key role in mentoring the senior team members for future Leadership and Management roles

Further responsibilities include:

Analyse the performance, capacity and trends of AVI Group's IT Infrastructure and Application and escalating concerns to the ITSS Infrastructure Executive
Management of the documentation of the Service Desk's Processes and Procedures. This includes but is not limited to; Technical Processes, Procedures, Standards and Schedules

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:

8 years Management of a multidisciplined technical team
8 years Management of Implementation and Maintenance of IT Processes and Procedures
8 years management of thirdparties IT services providers
8 years Management of Implementation and Maintenance of Monitoring Systems
8 years Management and Support of Enterprise Client Hardware and Software e.g. Operating Systems (Windows10), Office Productivity (MS Office2019/365), SAP ERP Systems Clients (SAP GUI)
5 years Management of a contact centre environment

Other essential working experience:

Call Logging Systems
Client and Server Operating Systems
Server Virtualisation Technologies
Local Area Networks (LANs)
Wired and Wireless
Wide Area Networks (WAN's)
Enterprise Compute and Storage Systems
Enterprise Backups Systems

Qualifications:

MDP (Management Development Programme)
Diploma in Information Technology or Computer Science
SMDP (Senior Management Development Programme) will be highly advantageous
A tertiary Degree or Diploma in Information Technology or Computer Science will be beneficial

Additional Requirements:

ITIL Foundations
Management and resolution of complex IT Infrastructure and Application issues and outages
Provide expert input to IT Facilities Infrastructure strategy, technology and architecture to ensure that best practice is applied
Provide input into and guides the establishment and implementation of processes, procedures, standards and guidelines
Provide ongoing mentoring to senior staff members
IT Service Delivery and Service Management methodologies and frameworks

Working knowledge of: