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Title: Director, Global IT Service Management
Job Type: Fulltime/Perm
Location: Hybrid, Bloomington, IN
Onsite/Travel Requirements: Weekly/Bloomington, IN
Eligibility: This role is not open to current or future sponsorship, or C2C partnerships

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Wright Technical Services is proud to represent a global company that develops, manufactures, and distributes innovative minimally invasive medical devices for this position. The Director, Global IT Service Management is responsible for ensuring that IT services are delivered effectively, efficiently, and in alignment with business needs. This role blends leadership, process optimization, and customer-centric thinking to elevate the quality and reliability of IT operations. Key responsibilities include leading teams, overseeing ITIL-based frameworks like incident, problem, and change management, establishing performance metrics, managing service delivery, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. This role also involves developing a service catalog, ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are met, and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve IT and business goals.

(Note: This role reports to the Vice President and Chief Information Officer.)

QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential Requirements Education and/or Work Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Business, or related field required, MBA preferred
• 10 years of relevant/management experience
• Deep knowledge of ITIL frameworks and service management tools (e.g., ServiceNow, BMC) preferred
• ITIL Certification preferred

Knowledge and Skills and/or Abilities

• This role requires mastery in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data concepts, including the ability to assess feasibility and risk of AI use cases, design or coordinate workflow-level AI solutions, guide teams on responsible AI governance, mentor others, and contribute to organizational policies and ethical decision-making.
• Experience with cloud services, automation, and digital transformation initiatives
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to influence others at various levels
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Proven problem-solving skills across a matrix organization
• Excellent organizational skills
• Highly motivated self-starter
• Availability and willingness to travel on company business based on requirements of the role (domestically and internationally)

Physical Requirements

• Requires occasional early morning or evening teleconferences
• Works under general office environmental conditions
• Sits for extended periods, utilizes close visual acuity working with computers, etc.
  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

ITIL 4 Framework Implementation:

• Lead organization-wide adoption of ITIL 4 practices including Service Value System (SVS) and Service Value Chain, implementing continual improvement processes that maximize service availability and significantly reduce mean time to resolution through structured problem-solving approaches.
• Develop and lead the ITSM strategy, aligning with organizational goals and ITIL best practices.

Advanced Incident and Problem Management:

• Establish sophisticated incident management workflows with automated escalation procedures, root cause analysis protocols, and knowledge management systems that substantially reduce recurring incidents and improve first-call resolution rates through comprehensive documentation and training.
• Oversee core ITSM processes such as Incident, Problem, Change, Request, and Knowledge Management.
• Ensure compliance with governance, risk, and regulatory requirements.

Change and Release Management Excellence:

• Implement comprehensive change advisory board (CAB) processes, automated change approval workflows, and release management practices that achieve high successful change implementation rates while maintaining system stability and minimizing unplanned outages.
• Drive service excellence through continuous improvement, automation, and performance metrics.

Service Catalog and Request Fulfillment Optimization:

• Design and maintain enterprise service catalogs with self-service portals, automated request fulfillment processes, and SLA monitoring that significantly improves user satisfaction and reduces manual processing through streamlined workflows and automation.
• Manage the service catalog, SLAs, and OLAs to ensure transparency and accountability.

Global Users Support

• Design and lead the global users support team, strategy and execution – users support, new software request, troubleshooting, Receive/execute Support requests, manage approvals, manage new & existing user experience when joining Company & interacting with IT, manage user requests, new user setup, fulfill user service requests for tools, support end users, triage tickets
• Design and lead the global users support team at the locations and manufacturing environments.
• Support the production environment and label printing.
• Design and manage the VIP user's support.

User Experience:

• Design and deliver IT customer service to enable Company IT user's awesomeness.
• Champion user experience, gathering feedback and driving innovation and enhancements across IT services.
• Lead cross-functional teams and collaborate with infrastructure, application, and support teams.
• Enable and implement technologies adoptions strategies.

Organizational Leadership:

• Establish, classify, and maintain documented business process and data process flows; define the expectations and vision for the process(es) and appoint process owner(s) as appropriate?
• Develop and manage systems, metrics, and internal training activities needed to support objectives?
• Adhere to established business plans and manage all costs incurred
• Foster a supportive and productive work environment that aligns with Company culture and values?
• Support employees in mapping a career pathway, and provide development opportunities to help them meet their objectives?
• Evaluate continuous improvement opportunities accordingly and implement, if appropriate, as we strive to improve and evolve our processes and procedures
• Collaborate, negotiate and influence other executives, staff, board members, and external parties on behalf of Company, Divisions, Functions, Entities, etc.
• Manage and safeguard all Company Medical intellectual property?
• Ensure that all aspects of the organization operate holistically in support of our objectives as stated in our Annual Business Plan and in compliance with the Company Group Code of Conduct and written standards?

• Ensure all communications (verbal and written) are within Company Medical’s Ethics and Compliance guidelines?
• Lead, hire, support, and provide guidance to all direct reports in compliance with the Company Group Code of Conduct?
• Establish and maintain open communications to ensure employee engagement and participation
• Promote and safeguard the organization’s culture and its reputation as an ethical company, inclusive and respectful employer, and good neighbor?

Wright Technical Services and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.