Service Desk Manager

Service Desk Manager

London (hybrid)

6 month contract (Outside IR35)

£500 - £600 p/d

A well-established and growing organisation is seeking an experienced Service Desk Manager to lead and evolve its IT support function within a complex, multi-site environment.

Supporting a diverse user base across office, remote and site locations, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering a high-quality, customer-focused IT service, ensuring stability, performance and continuous improvement across the service desk and field support teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the Service Desk and Field Support teams, driving performance, development and a customer-first culture
• Act as the senior escalation point for major incidents and complex technical issues
• Own end-to-end incident, request, problem and change management aligned to ITIL best practices
• Oversee ticket queues, workload distribution, SLA/OLA adherence and ticket quantity
• Produce regular service reporting (SLAs, backlog, ticket ageing, trends, first-time fix rates) and provide insights to leadership
• Drive continuous improvement through root cause analysis, gap analysis and service optimisation initiatives
• Coordinate service desk involvement in projects, rollouts, migrations and onboarding/offboarding activities
• Work closely with infrastructure, security, applications teams and third-party suppliers to ensure effective service delivery
• Maintain and improve knowledge management, documentation and standard operating procedures
• Ensure alignment with governance frameworks (ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus) and internal controls
• Manage supplier relationships and support vendor performance and accountably

Requirements:

• Proven experience managing a Service Desk in a multi-site, complex environment
• Strong leadership experience managing and developing support teams
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and customer service skills
• Strong experience with ITSM tools (ServiceNow essential)
• Solid understanding of ITIL practices (Incident, Problem, Change Management)
• Experience with Microsoft environments (M365, Azure AD / Entra ID, Intune, Windows 10/11, Teams, SharePoint)
• Knowledge of IT asset & service management (ITAM/SAM) principles
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and service performance
• Strong reporting, analytical and service improvement capability
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-demand environment