Service Desk Manager

Job description / Role

This Job is for Accelaero - Subsidiary of Air Arabia Group

• Leads the service desk team to carry out customer support operations properly and promptly, monitors and evaluates the overall performance to ensure problems are timely responded to and accurately resolved.
• Ensures all problems and gaps handled by the service desk are rightly identified and appropriate technical/non-technical solutions are applied.
• Establishes/maintains excellent relationships with clients, stakeholders, business users, suppliers, vendors and other ISA teams to ensure improvements in the products and services provided to ISA clients and to resolve any problems.
• Develops and implements customer service delivery standards to better serve ISA’s vision, mission and business requirements and to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Partners with line managers to drive related activities results, bringing on board highest level of creativity in service.
• Creates support knowledge base by managing the development and communication of IT support manuals, technical notes and articles to clients in line with SLAs.
• Contributes to improving customer support by actively responding to queries and managing complaints directly or through the service desk team; provides clients’ feedback to the different ISA teams.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of processes and service level agreements of incidents management and service requests management.
• Ensures a complete and accurate database of IT assets within ISA is established and maintained, and all security, integrity, and business continuity controls and documents are being applied within the respective area.
• Provides necessary support and guidance in evaluating, testing, and implementing new technology such as systems and platforms.
• Participates in different projects as required.
• Ensures proper recording and closure of all claims; develops daily, weekly and monthly reports on help desk team’s productivity.
• Identifies and manages the service desk budget estimates/expenditure in line with ISA’s guiding principles.
• Provides required support on budget issues to the Head of Operations as needed.
• Partners with HR to set objectives and identify KPIs for the respective team members; ensures his/her subordinates are fully aware and knowledgeable of their targets.
• Provides on-going support and supervision to the team members to assist them achieve their goals and bridge any gaps identified.
• Conducts regular reviews and assessment for the function related work flow and operating procedures to enhance the process and maximize productivity.
• Performs any other additional duties as directed by the head of the department/management.
• Demonstrates continual improvement in Service Desk performance leveraging people, process and technologies.
• Aligns the Service Desk to ITIL best practices leading to eventual accreditation in 18 months

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent.
• CCNP/ CCIE/ MCSE/ RHEL ITIL Certification are advantage.
• Fluent in English Language.

(Internal candidates may be exempted from certain requirements based on experience and competency).

• 6-8 years in IT environment, with 2-4 years of which managing the service desk, 24x7 critical operations preferably in aviation.
• ITIL advance is a must
• Experienced in help desk and remote-control software is a must.
• Solid technical back ground with an ability to give instructions to a non-technical audience.
• Customer-service oriented with an ability to motivate own team to achieve specific goals.
• Proven record in implementing and monitoring infrastructure projects.
• Proven skills in carrying out bug fixes and applying patches.
• Experienced in managing operations and technology platforms – both internally and externally hosted.
• Proven skills in analyzing data, identifying pitfalls and recommending solutions.
• Possesses effective persuasive, negotiation, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Employs technical expertise and interpersonal skills to execute new initiatives and achieve company’s objectives.
• Demonstrates the ability to contribute and successfully deliver against business strategy and set KPIs.

About the Company

Air Arabia (PJSC), listed on the Dubai Financial Market, is the Middle East and North Africa's first and leading low-cost carrier flying to over 100 destinations across the world. Air Arabia was the first airline to introduce the low-cost carrier concept in the region and is on a mission to serve all Arab countries and beyond, constantly undergoing aggressive route expansion, taking advantage of its ideally located hubs in the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Egypt and Jordan. Over the past thirteen years, Air Arabia, through continuous market research and customer feedback, provides a range of value added services to millions of passengers who chose to fly with Air Arabia's fleet of A320 aircraft. The airline commenced operations in October 2003 and achieved financial break-even from its very first year of services and has been profitable ever since.