IT Service Delivery Lead in Lancaster

This role involves managing service delivery processes, coordinating with the IT Team and the business, and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a customer‑focused mindset, and experience in IT service management.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and mature service management processes (e.g., Incident, Problem, and Change Management), ensuring consistent adherence, clear communication, and effective outcomes.
• Establish and maintain service governance, including documented processes, policy/procedure review and renewal, and a continual improvement approach to increase overall service maturity.
• Lead audit preparation and compliance assurance, coordinating, reviewing, and delivering audit evidence on time, and maintaining the documentation and control records needed to demonstrate compliance.
• Support delivery of regulatory and contractual service management requirements through formalised processes, consistent documentation, and evidencing.
• Coordinate and track information systems audit improvement plans, ensuring remediation activities are owned, progressed, and reported appropriately.
• Monitor and report on service performance (KPIs, trends, and risks), producing regular infrastructure/network service reporting and highlighting priorities for resilience and security improvement.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, providing clear communication, setting expectations, and improving customer satisfaction.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in IT service management and apply them pragmatically to improve outcomes.

Qualifications & Experience

• 3‑5 years in a similar role.
• Desirable familiarity with methodologies such as ITIL, Agile, or PRINCE2.
• Strong governance skills: ability to establish and maintain processes, controls and documentation to evidence service delivery and compliance.
• Audit readiness and evidencing: experience preparing for audits, coordinating evidence, and ensuring on‑time delivery of audit responses and improvement actions.
• Excellent communication skills: ability to interact effectively with stakeholders and technical teams, including clear communication during incidents and changes.
• Analytical skills: monitoring KPIs, analysing service metrics, and driving continual service improvement.
• Change and problem management: practical experience running Change, Problem and Incident Management in line with agreed processes.
• Supplier governance and security assurance: skills in managing vendors, service reviews, SLAs, and ongoing security assessment beyond onboarding.
• Technical understanding: sufficient breadth to interpret service health, reporting, and risks, and to translate between technical detail and business impact.

Benefits

• Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
• 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
• Professional fees reimbursed
• Flexible working
• Employee referral scheme

Why Apply?

Join Assystem and become a key player in delivering critical nuclear projects that shape the future of energy. Your expertise and leadership will drive global innovation in a dynamic environment.

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We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions.

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