Join one of the UK’s largest electrical wholesalers as we reimagine our technology for the digital age. We’re modernising our legacy systems and building new platforms powered by AWS and AI — and we need creative minds to help us shape the future!
What You'll Do:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a forward thinking, customer focused, technically minded IT Service Desk Team Lead to join our Service Operation team based in Durham.
You’d be joining us at an exciting time where we are actively maturing our processes, introducing new technology and adopting a much more end user focused experience.
The IT Service Desk are the face of IT with responsibility for raising, triaging and managing Incident, Service Request and Procurement tickets, as well as providing 1st Line support on a wide range of systems, applications and devices across UK, Ireland, Spain and Netherlands.
As an IT Service Desk Team Lead, you will manage a team of Service Desk analysts, oversee daily operations, and ensure customer satisfaction meets the standards required. This role involves handling escalations, providing technical guidance, and improving processes through data analysis and training.
The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for identifying areas for automation and use of AI to reduce burden on Service Desk, whilst delivering value back to the end-user community.
What You'll Do:We have a fantastic opportunity for a forward thinking, customer focused, technically minded IT Service Desk Team Lead to join our Service Operation team based in Durham. You’d be joining us at an exciting time where we are actively maturing our processes, introducing new technology and adopting a much more end user focused experience. The IT Service Desk are the face of IT with responsibility for raising, triaging and managing Incident, Service Request and Procurement tickets, as well as providing 1st Line support on a wide range of systems, applications and devices across UK, Ireland, Spain and Netherlands. As an IT Service Desk Team Lead, you will manage a team of Service Desk analysts, oversee daily operations, and ensure customer satisfaction meets the standards required. This role involves handling escalations, providing technical guidance, and improving processes through data analysis and training. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for identifying areas for automation and use of AI to reduce burden on Service Desk, whilst delivering value back to the end-user community.
What You'll Bring:
Excellent Team Management and Leadership Qualities with experience managing, coaching and supporting IT service desk staff
Oversee daily Service Desk performance, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, balanced workloads, and adherence to technical and quality standards.
Oversee daily Service Desk performance, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, balanced workloads, and adherence to technical and quality standards like ITIL.
Develop team skills and implement targeted training to strengthen technical expertise and cross-team collaboration.
Uphold policy and security compliance, act as technical escalation point, and collaborate with the Incident Manager during major incidents and CAB activities.
Our Hiring Process:
Intro call with our Talent Team — 30 mins
1st stage interview with Hiring Managers (Microsoft Teams) — 60 mins
2nd stage interview with Senior Leadership & Hiring Managers (Onsite - Durham) — 60 mins
The role will be based in our award-winning IT and Marketing office, based on the outskirts of Durham found here.
Hybrid working patterns are in place, with the nature of the role there will be an expectation of being in the office 3 days per week.
Business travel may be required from time to time as part of this role.
About Us:
Founded in 1951 in Kenilworth, UK, City Electrical Factors (CEF) has grown into a world-leading electrical wholesale and manufacturing business with over 400 branches across the UK and a strong presence in the USA, Canada, Spain and Australia.
Our IT and digital teams are driving the next chapter of our journey... Re-engineering legacy systems, adopting modern cloud technologies and exploring AI to deliver faster, smarter and more connected customer experiences.
Our teams are distributed across the UK, USA, Canada, Spain and Australia. Our culture is collaborative, forward-thinking and people-focused — where your ideas and contributions genuinely matter.
Our Mission:
City is a world leading electrical wholesale and manufacturing business providing electrical products to the industry. We in IT are delivering value to our business and our customers with the implementation of packaged software and bespoke engineering for the digital age using AWS serverless technology. We need talented and creative people across all areas to join us in rearchitecting our forward thinking business over the next few years and beyond as we evolve.
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