Service Delivery Manager
On site
London, United Kingdom
Freelance
25-03-2025
Job Specifications
Who We Are
At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.
Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.
Service Delivery Manager is needed with proven experience in service delivery for a high-profile customer's web site.
About The Role
The candidate should have a good technical understanding of web platforms and good grounding on how customers use our solutions to drive revenues and profits. This role is a combination of support management and team leadership, including liaison with internal technical teams and third parties.
You should be able to deal confidently with customers, manage and motivate a team of web engineers, plan workloads & priorities, interact with 3rd parties, analyse / plan workload, deal with hosting providers and help manage software releases & deployments. Additionally, you will be required to work within the support processes (reporting, SLA's, incident & problem management etc).
A flexible approach to working hours and a willingness to cover periods of on-call support is required for this role.
Responsibilities
Co-ordinate & facilitate the contracted eCommerce service to one or more customers
Ensure that escalations and communications are managed in line with documented contract standards
Develop and maintain good customer relationships with the support of the Account Manager.
To be primary point of contact for the customer and ensure that the contracted scope of service is delivered to contracted SLA's and that levels of customers satisfaction remain high
Ensure all agreed SLAs are met for incidents & service requests
Develop and maintain a productive and close working relationship with relevant Account Executives
Build appropriate working relationships with any third party's involved in the delivery of in scope production services to the customer
Produce weekly and monthly service reports for customers against the agreed targets, SLA's, KPI's, to agreed deadlines together with analysis and interpretation of service trends and recommendations to enable service improvements and cost saving opportunities
Undertake analysis and interpretation of service trends to identify recommendations for service improvements and cost saving opportunities
Conduct regular service reviews on a monthly/quarterly basis
Liaise with customers to agree problem priorities and delivery
Ensure changes, releases, patches or upgrades to customer production environments are managed effectively and in a timely manner through the change & release management process
Ensure any interruptions to the live service are resolved quickly and that the underlying problem is identified and removed using Problem and Change Management processes
Conduct Root Cause Analysis for all Severity 1 incidents, identifying & recommending opportunities for service improvement using Continuous Sustainable Improvement Plan (CSIP)
Ensure Support Activities managed within contracted Support Budget
Work with support and development teams to ensure problem fixes are planned into releases and delivered
Required Skills
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively
Extensive experience in a Support function
Working knowledge of ITIL v3 processes framework specifically Incident, Problem and Request Fulfilment
Extremely results driven, will always go the extra mile to deliver expected result
Financially aware and able to contribute to the effective running of the account.
Clear & concise communication skills - both written and oral
Proven track record in building and maintaining strong relationships with customers including working from customer sites when required
Strong leadership skills with proven track record of managing, developing and leading multi-disciplined teams
Strong problem solving, time management and organizational skills
Experience of providing out of hours support for high severity incidents
Exposure to "follow the sun" support models
What We Can Offer You
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.
We offer a great benefits package including a discretionary bonus scheme, training opportunities, competitive pension, medical insurance, life assurance, social events, opportunities to buy and sell holidays, family friendly policies, discounts with hundreds of retailers and much more.
Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:
Connect Meaningfully
Inspire Creatively
Include Purposefully
Approach Positively
Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That's why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
AT VML Enterprise Solutions
Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world's leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.
We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury's, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We've built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.
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About the Company
VML is a global powerhouse born from the unification of Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R — two of the world's most powerful and accomplished creative agencies with complementary capabilities and geographic strengths. We have an industry-unique opportunity to provide our client partners with a fully integrated offering across brand experience, customer experience and commerce practices — powered by deep data and technology experience. For more information, visit www.vml.com. Know more
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