Managed Service Delivery Manager📣 Job Ad
| Contract Type | Full-time | |
| Workplace type | On-site | |
| Location | Riyadh |
About the Role
Ericsson is seeking a Managed Service Delivery Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is responsible for the successful delivery of managed services, ensuring alignment with business cases and defined targets. The position involves overseeing assigned accounts and managing virtual teams to meet and exceed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Work Level Agreements (WLAs). This role is critical for account success, acting as an extension of management to drive operational performance and stakeholder relationships. A key responsibility includes identifying performance deviations and initiating improvement plans with delivery stakeholders.
As a Managed Service Delivery Manager, you will contribute to maintaining the quality and cost-effectiveness of services delivered by the Service Delivery Unit (SDU). You will focus on the productivity and efficiency of global deliveries, fostering collaboration across delivery teams to achieve account objectives. Developing and nurturing strong relationships with internal and external customers is essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive operational and financial performance in line with Work Level Agreements (WLAs), covering service delivery and customer infrastructure performance.
- Ensure the quality and cost of services delivered by the SDU meet WLA expectations for MS Network.
- Build trust with the MSCLT by focusing on the productivity and efficiency of global deliveries, and foster collaboration across delivery teams to achieve account targets.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external customers.
- Ensure optimal team sizing relative to the scope of delivery.
- Manage operational aspects to ensure services delivered by Operations teams comply with contractual SLAs and drive end-to-end operational excellence.
- Monitor and report on the operational and financial performance of the Service Delivery Unit for specific customers.
- Oversee internal governance for MS Contracts to ensure booked costs align with WLAs and delivery performance meets WLA targets.
- Report to the MSCLT on operational performance and infrastructure KPIs as per WLA requirements.
- Manage contract transformation and handover processes, ensuring operational readiness for new or changed contracts.
- Facilitate the handover of resources, services, and activities to the global delivery unit to fulfill or expand WLA scope, ensuring capacity and operational readiness.
- Ensure delivery units operate in alignment with MS EOE processes and Ericsson standard tools, including MSDP.
- Drive Service Delivery Efficiency (SDE) programs through automation initiatives.
- Initiate and drive improvement plans to correct operational or financial performance deviations against global benchmarks and targets.
- Identify delivery performance quality issues within the customer's network and initiate solutions from the Ericsson Product Catalog that generate add-on sales.
- Address delivery performance issues related to the current scope of delivery through governance with the MSCLT.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Proven experience in operational delivery and account management, with direct responsibility for SLAs and WLAs.
- Strong ability to manage virtual teams in a metrics-driven organization and drive the productivity and efficiency of global deliveries.
- Experience in monitoring and reporting on operational and financial performance, and ensuring services comply with contractual SLAs.
- Ability to build and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships, acting as an extension of account management.
- Practical experience with contract transformation, handover processes, and ensuring operational preparedness for new or changed contracts.
- Familiarity with the governance of contract costs and delivery performance against WLA targets.
- Experience in driving improvement plans and service delivery efficiency programs, including automation initiatives.
- Commercial awareness to identify and propose solutions from product catalogs that generate add-on sales.
- Strong problem-solving skills to identify delivery performance issues and address them through governance and operational changes.
Required Skills
- Operational Delivery
- Account Management
- SLA Management
- WLA Management
- Virtual Team Management
- Productivity and Efficiency
- Global Deliveries
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Contract Transformation
- Operational Preparedness
- Contract Cost Governance
- Delivery Performance Governance
- Improvement Plans
- Service Delivery Efficiency Programs
- Automation Initiatives
- Commercial Awareness
- Add-on Sales
- Problem-Solving
- Ericsson Standard Tools
- MS EOE Processes
Work Environment and Location
This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves managing virtual teams and collaborating with global delivery units.
Requirements
- No experience required
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