Air Arabia is presently looking to hire skilled and motivated candidate for job position of Manager Service Desk in Sharjah. The successful candidate will be responsible to lead the service desk team and operations ensuring on time performance and best support services are provided to end users aligned to agreed SLA through the various channels. Also, to source for, train, and monitor the performance of resources in line with ISAs commercial and operational objectives and business needs, set measures, and client’s adopted policies and procedures.

Responsibilities of Manager Service Desk

• 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 ISAs vision, mission and business requirements. 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.

What You Will Do More

• Ensures proper recording and closure of all claims develops daily, weekly and monthly reports on help desk teams productivity.
• Identifies and manages the service desk budget estimates, expenditure in line with ISAs 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 For Role of Manager Service Desk

Eligibility requirements for role of Manager Service Desk are as under:

• Bachelors Degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent.
• CCNP, CCIE, MCSE, RHEL ITIL Certification are advantage.
• 6 to 8 years in IT environment, with 2 to 4 years of which managing the service desk, 24×7 critical operations preferably in aviation.
• ITIL advance is a must.
• Experienced in help desk and remote control software is a must.
• Experienced in managing operations and technology platforms  both internally and externally hosted.

Skills And Knowledge Desired