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Service Desk Manager

Context Recruitment Limited
London Contract GBP 130,000 – 156,000
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Service Desk Manager

London

£500-£600 per day (outside IR35)

A leading organisation within the rail and transport sector is seeking an experienced Service Desk Manager to lead its IT support function across a multi-site operational environment.

This role will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of a high-quality support service, managing service desk performance, driving continuous improvement and acting as the key escalation point for service-related issues.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the Service Desk team, promoting a customer-focused culture

  • Manage service desk performance, workloads, KPIs and service levels

  • Act as the escalation point for major incidents and service issues

  • Drive improvements across incident, request and problem management processes

  • Produce regular service reporting and performance metrics for stakeholders

  • Coordinate support activities across operational sites and corporate functions

  • Manage relationships with third-party suppliers and support partners

  • Ensure service documentation, knowledge articles and operational procedures remain current
Experience Required
  • Proven experience managing an IT Service Desk within a complex, multi-site environment

  • Strong leadership and people management skills

  • Experience managing service performance, SLAs and operational reporting

  • Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

  • Strong understanding of IT service management best practices

  • Experience working with service management tools and supplier-led environments

  • Ideally have experience within rail, transport, infrastructure or other operationally critical industries

  • Exposure to service transition, operational change or technology improvement initiatives
This is an excellent opportunity to join a large-scale transport organisation and play a key role in delivering reliable technology support services across a critical operational environment.

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