Role Overview
The Telecom Service Delivery Manager is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end delivery of telecoms services across support desk, engineering, scheduling, procurement and field dispatch operations. This role ensures high service quality, operational efficiency, and effective stakeholder communication, including executive-level reporting in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage telecom service delivery across support desk, NOC, field engineers, and scheduling/dispatch teams.
- Ensure timely resolution of incidents, service requests, and escalations in line with SLAs and KPIs.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver consistent and high-quality telecom services.
- Oversee resource planning, scheduling, and dispatch to optimize engineer utilization.
- Implement and maintain service management framework (ITIL preferred).
- Act as primary escalation point for critical incidents (P1/P2 outages).
- Implement and maintain an on-call Rota to satisfy all product ranges supported.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce case volumes and improve service performance.
- Prepare and deliver weekly executive reports / dashboards and presentation decks with performance insights.
- Manage customer relationships and ensure high levels of client satisfaction.
- Monitor and report on key service metrics, including case volumes, resolution times, and SLA compliance.
Technical Requirements
- Strong telecom background including Legacy equipment such as Nortel, Avaya, Mitel, NEC, ComXchange, SIP, VoIP, WAN/LAN, MPLS, SD-WAN, monitoring and cloud communications.
- Understanding of carrier services, networking infrastructure, and telephony systems.
- Experience with ticketing systems such as MS Dynamics, Connectwise, ServiceNow , monitoring tools Auvik, Virsae, and reporting platforms MS BI etc.
- Ability to analyze technical issues and provide guidance to engineering teams.
- Familiarity with Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya, ClearlyIP and other telecom/network vendors is advantageous.
Leadership & Communication
- Proven leadership in managing multi-disciplinary technical teams.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders internally or externally.
- Experience presenting to executive leadership and producing C-level reporting decks.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Very strong communications skills in an engineering environment
Qualifications & Experience
- 5+ years experience in telecom and IT service delivery roles.
- Previous experience managing support, engineering, and dispatch teams.
- ITIL certification advantageous.
- Relevant telecoms or networking certifications (CCNA/CCNP or equivalent desirable).
Key Deliverables
- Weekly executive reporting deck with performance analysis and improvement recommendations.
- Service performance improvements across SLAs and KPIs.
- Reduction in incident volumes through proactive management.
- Improved resource utilization across engineering and field teams.
Company Description
Source 1 Solutions is the trusted IT partner your organization needs. With an elite technical network spanning 118 countries, we specialize in monitoring, managing, and maintaining enterprise infrastructure for enterprise & mid-market organizations.