Overview
Service Delivery Director, Svc Leadership (Applications)
Date: 17 Jan 2025
Location:
Singapore, Singapore
Company:
Singtel Group
NCS is a leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more. We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 13,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.
As a Service Delivery Director, you will be responsible for a portfolio of IT application managed services engagements that deliver Operations & Support services with quality, within scope and to ensure deliverables are on time and conform to processes and standards meeting customer’s requirements.
What will you do?
Service Delivery
- Service Delivery incorporates the end-to-end delivery of the Service Contract. This includes client engagement, managing external and internal stakeholders’ expectations and delivering on contractual outcomes
- Own the delivery schedules, quality, budgets, manpower, communications, and risk management
- Drive delivery excellence, and continuous service improvements
- Manage commercial issues and any disputes that may impact scope, schedule and cost
- Manage technical issues arising from integration of various components of the project including hardware, software installation, testing, business process review or, redesign, application development, system migration and data conversion etc.
- Monitor and report on project management progress
- Manage resources in terms of mobilising or offboarding resources during different periods of time according to demand to maximise productivity or minimise wastage
- Take ownership of the project financials
Stakeholder Management
- Manage contracts and subcontractors
- Effectively engaged stakeholders in project decisions and execution
- Build long-term customer relationships by anticipating and exceeding customer’s expectation
- Negotiate with customers on change control mechanism to meet schedules and prioritise changes based on business needs
Business Development
- Proactively identify opportunities for further expansion or improvement of services delivered to the customer and liaise with the Account Manager(s) for development of that opportunity
- Support pre-sales activities
People and Growth
- Monitor and improve team performance, conduct team building, providing leadership, coaching, and performance management
- Provide performance feedback and developmental coaching
- Identify and grow talents from within the team
The ideal candidate should possess:
- More than 10 years IT service delivery management experience
- Project managed and delivered/successfully implemented at least 3 projects relating to government agencies of more than $10m TCV each is a bonus
- ITIL Foundation certified
- Self-motivated with a positive “can-do” attitude, creative with excellent presentation, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills including strong persuasive techniques.
- Able to lead, develop and maintain respectful and trusting relationships
- Proficient in written and spoken English
- Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent
We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.
Together, we make the extraordinary happen.
Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.
About Singtel
Headquartered in Singapore, Singtel has 140 years of operating experience and played a pivotal role in the country’s development as a major communications hub. Optus, our subsidiary in Australia, is a leader in integrated telecommunications, constantly raising the bar in innovative products and services.
We are also strategically invested in leading companies in Asia and Africa, including Bharti Airtel (India, South Asia and Africa), Telkomsel (Indonesia), Globe Telecom (the Philippines) and Advanced Info Service (Thailand). We work closely with our associates, leveraging our scale in networks, customer reach and extensive operational experience to lead and shape the communications industry.
Together, the Group serves over 700 million mobile customers around world. Singtel is one of the largest listed Singapore companies on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation.
The Group has a vast network of offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the USA, and employs more than 23,000 staff worldwide.