IT Service Delivery Manager

Role: IT Service Delivery Manager

Location: West Midlands (5 days a week onsite)

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 DOE

(Must have MSP experience)

My client is looking for a Service Delivery Manager to lead service operations across the Midlands region within a fast-growing managed services environment.

This is a senior leadership role focused on service excellence, team development, and customer experience. You’ll ensure consistent, high-quality IT service delivery while helping integrate multiple teams into a single, unified operating model.

Rather than hands-on technical delivery, this role is about ownership, leadership, continuous improvement, and building a high-performing service culture.

You’ll oversee service desk, incident, major incident, problem management, and monitoring functions, ensuring customers receive proactive, reliable, and value-driven support.

A key part of the role is aligning teams from recent acquisitions, embedding consistent ways of working, and identifying and developing future leaders within the business.

Service Delivery & Operations

  • Own service delivery performance across the Midlands region
  • Ensure SLAs are consistently met or exceeded
  • Lead major incident and escalation management with clear communication
  • Drive root cause analysis and service improvement initiatives
  • Track KPIs and service performance metrics
  • Standardise tools, processes, and operational best practice across teams

Client Engagement & Strategy

  • Act as senior operational contact for key clients
  • Lead service reviews and ensure clear actions and outcomes
  • Support technology roadmaps and long-term planning discussions
  • Work closely with account and project teams for seamless service transition
  • Manage escalations and ensure effective resolution

Leadership & People Management

  • Lead, coach, and develop engineering and service teams
  • Conduct 1:1s, appraisals, and personal development planning
  • Build a strong customer-first and performance-driven culture
  • Recruit and onboard new team members in line with growth plans

Integration & Continuous Improvement

  • Unify service teams across multiple business units
  • Define and embed a single operating model
  • Deliver training and capability development programmes
  • Support ongoing acquisition integration and alignment

Stakeholder Management

  • Represent service delivery in leadership forums
  • Provide clear reporting on performance, risks, and improvements
  • Manage vendor and third-party relationships where required

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years’ experience in IT service delivery leadership
  • Background within a Managed Service Provider environment
  • Strong people leadership and team development experience
  • Confident client and stakeholder management skills
  • Solid understanding of ITIL principles
  • Experience working with KPIs and service reporting
  • Good technical awareness (M365, Azure, infrastructure, networking, cyber security, telecoms)
  • Experience in post-acquisition integration or organisational change
  • ITIL certification or formal leadership training

Please apply!

Job Details

Company
Harvey Nash
Location
United Kingdom
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