Team Lead - Service Desk

Life on the team

Computacenter has an international presence, so if your role involves global projects or support, you may have the chance to collaborate with colleagues and clients from different countries. Workloads and work hours can vary depending on project demands and client needs. At Computacenter we often emphasize work-life balance.

Computacenter is involved in cutting-edge IT solutions, so you may have opportunities to work on innovative projects that leverage the latest technologies.

The IT landscape is constantly evolving, so you'll need to stay updated on new technologies, software, and best practices to effectively support users.

Overall, life in Computacenter can be rewarding as you play a crucial role in helping users and maintaining the functionality of an organization's IT systems. It can also be challenging at times, but it offers opportunities for growth and the satisfaction of solving technical problems and assisting users.

What youll do

• Roles at this level will plan and organize their own work, have substantial personal responsibility and autonomy, work under general direction and have a framework of accountability. Ensure Department meets SLA performance targets
• Maintain & improve Customer satisfaction levels
• Understand and adhere to policies and procedures
• Responsible maintaining budget/cost lines
• Responsible for management of resourcing requirements
• Ensure, Maintain & improve the Continuous Improvement mentality and level in the team

What you’ll need

• Produces and analyses management reports to allocate work and report on trends.
• Resolves customer escalation in a timely manner to avoid disruption and minimize business impact.
• Plans and distributes workload appropriately to ensure that business needs and deadlines are met.
• Provides clear, concise and relevant communication to ensure clarity of objectives and outputs required.
• Controls relevant costs lines in order to meet budgetary requirements.
• Act in accordance with Computacenter Information Security Policies and report any potential or actual Security events or other Security risks to the organisation.
• Ensure team members are adequately trained, encourage development of skills, ensure backup structure is in place.
• Conduct performance reviews and 121 meetings in line with CC policies. Regular coaching, mentoring and timely feedback to team members in a professional way
• Responsible for management of resourcing requirements (attrition and retention)
• Governance of knowledge availability and quality of service
• Act as a role model for their direct reports
• Ensure the workload of incoming customer queries is distributed equally in the team and the workflows and queues are managed properly (via floorwalking, remote management, etc)

Experience & Education:

8 to 10 years of experience.

Bachelor’s degree in information security, Computer Science, or bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.

Skills:

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Applications
• Coordinates, organizes and prioritizes work activity for self and others
• Excellent proven customer service skills
• Excellent administrative skills and ability to analyze data and produce reports
• Excellent Interpersonal, literacy and numeracy skills
• Confidence building relationships with key stakeholder and senior management
• Team player with collaborative and supportive style
• Business focused oral and written communication skills
• Good (working) knowledge of relevant business systems e.g. SAP (new systems/ acceptance and promotion)
• Excellent coaching and communication skills with a proactive approach to solutions
• Raise and support improvements ideas (both on resource/environment/systems)
• Ability to do the job independently
• Ability to prioritize and work on tight timelines
• Ability to support operations manager in managing the account
• Ability to act as the deputy of the Operations Manager whenever required both internally and externally
• Open to work in a 24/7 work environment