Service Transition Manager

Job Description

boxxe strives to put customer satisfaction and outcomes at the heart of everything we do. Our Service Management team focusses on maximising the performance and continual improvement of the services that boxxe delivers. We design our services to maximise customer value and drive efficiency, and a smooth transition into our service delivery teams is essential to this.

Your Mission

As a Service Transition Manager, you will be integral in the onboarding of new managed services. You’ll collaborate with other teams to design processes for new services, will own the Transition Process to ensure projects are transitioned into live service smoothly, and go on to assure the transition process within boxxe for all onboarding of our customers and ensuring they are continuously improved.

How you’ll fit in to the big picture

boxxe has ambitious goals, and as we expand our catalogue of offerings, we need to increase the size and experience of our service delivery teams to ensure we have the right people in place to deliver top-class solutions. Service Transition is integral to this, ensuring that services are onboarded efficiently and effectively, maximising customer satisfaction and that once in live service we meet or exceed our agreed SLAs.

What you’ll be doing

• Working with our pre-sales and Service Creation teams to verify that both bespoke and repeatable services and support models across a variety of technologies and customer sectors are available prior to the onboarding of new customers.
• Owning and improving the overall Service Transition process and verifying that these processes are followed by the relevant teams.
• Liaising with our Project Management team to confirm that all relevant processes are adhered to during the onboarding of new customers. Typically, the onboarding of a complex service is treated as a project and managed by a Project Manager. You will work with them to create and oversee the Transition process of onboarding, ensuring that the service is ready to go live on the agreed date. As part of the transition activities, you will be responsible for:
  • Ensuring the Service Design Pack is defined and completed by the relevant parties, detailing the scope of the service as well as agreed SLAs
  • Ensuring that any training or upskilling required in the technical support teams is arranged
  • Establish a RACI matrix template and certify these are completed by the relevant parties, so services teams are clear on their roles and responsibilities
  • Ensuring our ServiceNow platform is configured correctly, by the relevant teams, for new services, during the transition process.
  • Managing the knowledge transfer process and verifying that Knowledge Transfer occurs between the project team and the technical support team
  • Ensuring the solution passes testing prior to go live
  • Collating Service Acceptance Criteria and ensuring this is signed off prior to go live
  • Arranging Early Life Support in readiness for go live
  • Successful service handover to the assigned Service Delivery Manager and Service Desk

What experience we think you’ll need

• Experience in IT Service Management
• Experience in IT Service Transition
• ITIL Foundation level qualifications required, as a minimum. (Practitioner or Expert level would be advantageous).
• Ability to communicate clearly and accurately at all levels
• Experience in creating, documenting, and improving processes
• Excellent attention to detail and document writing skills

At boxxe we believe that business should be about more than just profits. Sustainability is a core value. We are committed to reducing our environmental impact, encouraging inclusive working environments, and trading ethically. Everyone at boxxe is responsible for considering the impact of their actions on the environment and for reducing our carbon footprint through embracing Work from Anywhere (in the UK) principles, minimising travel by using virtual technology and adopting sustainable practices.

boxxe embraces diversity. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. boxxe does not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. All our employment is based on qualification, excellence, and business need.