At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a dynamic service desk team, ensuring top-notch support and service delivery.
- Company: Join FluidOne, an award-winning provider of secure Connected Cloud Solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy subsidised health care, generous holidays, and a pension contribution.
- Other info: Be part of a vibrant culture with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in IT support while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in service desk management and strong ITIL knowledge required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Established in 2006, FluidOne is an award-winning provider of secure Connected Cloud Solutions with a turnover in excess of £100m, and consistently one of the highest Net Promoter Scores (NPS) in the industry. FluidOne has a strong company culture enjoyed by 460 staff across offices across the UK. FluidOne supports the needs of 2,000+ customers, and 200 channel resellers, with Secure Networking, IT Services and Cyber Security managed services.
As AI becomes a core enabler of innovation, FluidOne’s vision is to lead the way in secure AI adoption, combining innovative Connected Cloud solutions with unmatched expertise and service, empowering businesses to thrive confidently in the AI era. The company consults with its customers to design solutions that complement their in-house infrastructures; taking complex hybrid multi-site environments, to make them simple and secure, so end-users can access their business applications wherever they are.
FluidOne delivers tailored IT solutions across a broad customer base, structured to meet the specific needs of different market segments. For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), FluidOne provides comprehensive IT support through its branch network, delivering localised, expert services that ensure security, efficiency, and scalability, providing individual solutions and fully comprehensive managed services. For enterprise clients, FluidOne offers advanced solutions that manage costs, risks and optimise organisational operational performance, providing everything from design and delivery to ongoing support.
Specialising in Data & AI (D&AI), managed services, and cloud transformation, FluidOne’s toolkit includes consulting-led services that help enterprises harness the power of artificial intelligence while maintaining robust compliance and security. FluidOne’s dual-structured approach ensures all customers – from growing SMBs to large, complex enterprises – benefit from trusted, innovative, and future-ready IT services.
The Service Desk Pod Manager is responsible for leading the Camberley service desk pod, ensuring high-quality support and consistent service delivery across 1st and 2nd resources. The role owns day-to-day ticket management, service quality, escalation control and ITIL-aligned operational discipline, using Halo as the ITSM platform to manage workflow, reporting, prioritisation and continual service improvement.
- Pod Leadership: Lead the Camberley service desk pod, providing clear direction, coaching and operational support to 1st and 2nd line engineers.
- Service Quality Ownership: Maintain a consistent standard of service quality across the pod, ensuring customer interactions, ticket updates and resolutions are clear, professional and aligned to agreed expectations.
- Ticket Management: Own ticket flow within Halo, ensuring incidents, service requests and tasks are correctly prioritised, categorised, updated and progressed within agreed service levels.
- Queue Management: Monitor Camberley ticket queues throughout the day, identifying ageing tickets, stalled updates, breached or at-risk SLAs and workload imbalances across the team.
- Escalation Management: Act as the operational escalation point for Camberley service issues, ensuring escalations are triaged, owned, communicated and driven through to resolution.
- Incident Management: Ensure incidents are managed in line with ITIL principles, with clear ownership, impact assessment, prioritisation, communication and restoration of service.
- Major Incident Support: Support major incident coordination for the Camberley accounts, ensuring clear stakeholder updates, accurate Halo records and appropriate engagement of technical teams.
- Problem Management Contribution: Identify recurring issues, quality trends and repeat incidents, working with technical teams to support root cause analysis and preventative actions.
- Knowledge Management: Promote effective use of knowledge articles, known error records and standard fixes within Halo to improve first-time resolution and reduce repeat effort.
- SLA and KPI Performance: Monitor SLA performance, ticket hygiene, response quality, resolution quality and operational KPIs, taking corrective action where performance is at risk.
- ITIL Process Discipline: Ensure the pod follows ITIL-aligned processes for incident, request, problem, change and escalation management, adapting day-to-day ways of working where needed.
- Team Performance and Development: Support, mentor and develop 1st and 2nd line staff, encouraging accountability, collaboration and high standards of ticket ownership.
- Reporting and Continual Improvement: Use Halo reporting and service data to identify trends, improvement opportunities and actions that improve service quality, efficiency and customer experience.
Benefits include subsidised health and dental care, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), life assurance (3x salary), Sodexo discount platform, FluidOne breakfast and refreshments on office days, pension contribution (5% company contribution), generous holiday entitlement, and one day off for birthday.
Locations
Service Desk Team Leader *Management *Support *ITIL *Customer Focused in Camberley, Surrey employer: FluidOne
FluidOne is an exceptional employer that values its employees by fostering a collaborative and dynamic work culture in the UK. With a strong focus on professional development, employees are encouraged to grow their skills in telecommunications provisioning while enjoying competitive benefits and a supportive environment that prioritises high service standards and client satisfaction.