Role Name Reporting To Direct Reports Competency Level Overall Job Purpose Key Accountabilities Essential Requirements Service Delivery Support Manager Head of Service Delivery Circa 3 FTEs Manager • To drive quality achievement, through a small shared service team, by delivering effective assurance services to all service delivery teams helping them to achieve effective customer operations through consistent standards. • Ensuring that our partner organisations are aligned to our service standards, and maintaining an open dialogue with our partners to share best practice and seek continuous improvement. • Devising quality assurance, training, communications and business protocol development strategies for all customer service operations. • Implementing and operating appropriate quality assurance methodologies for all operational services, ensuring third party providers consistently deliver to the required quality standards. • Both promoting and driving quality achievement and performance improvement. • Establishing and managing appropriate training approaches with third party operational service providers to ensure that customer advisors deliver high quality money management advice in the required way. • Translating business and operational strategies into business rules and protocols and ensuring consistent application of these in the advice we provide through our service delivery partners. • Ensuring appropriate systems and documentation is place internally and by the third party providers. • Establishing efficient reporting standards in respect of QA and protocol implementation and delivery. • Identifying opportunities for service improvement and facilitating these improvements. • Working closely with service operational managers. • Evaluating costs/benefits and operational savings for our partner contracts and identifying continuous improvement opportunities to determine viability and priority. • Supporting new product launches into operations through training, protocol development and assurance approaches. • Measuring, analysing, and reporting on quality performance, including developing performance metrics. • Leading and motivating a small team. • First class expertise in managing business rules (protocols) quality assurance, training and communication within an operational delivery environment. • Extensive expertise in project lifecycle methodologies, process design and improvement methodologies, deployment of change processes, risk and mitigation management and reporting, project evaluation and analysis. • Solid operational understanding of the managing operational metrics, operational levers and quality processes. • • • • • • • • In depth knowledge of continuous improvement approaches and process development and a track record of delivering business improvement. Substantial demonstrable capability in managing operational services contracts with proven expertise in service delivery through third partners. Excellent stakeholder management and customer service skills Proven ability to build relationships quickly and effectively with colleagues and 3rd party providers. Expertise in budget management, target setting and performance indicator management across a team. Strong IT and MS Office (esp. Excel) skills. People management expertise. Flexibility to travel around the UK or wider (subject to 3rd party provider locations).