Canada Regional Lead - Service Desk and On-site Technology Support
- Calgary, AB
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead and champion a functional organization with a single, mature culture. This should provide consistency of operations, responsibilities and reporting.
- Establish a service culture with sufficiently ITIL-educated operations management and staff.
- Strategy & Operating Model
- Execute the USS 3-year roadmap in region, turn enterprise priorities into quarterly plans, budgets across Service Desk and OSTS with clear success metrics and narrative for executive reviews.
- Drive service improvement and standardization, automation and consolidation/centralization in alignment with the ET and I&O/USS strategies.
- AI & Automation Adoption
- Champion the rollout and continuous improvement of GenAI/LLM-powered virtual agent, chat auto-disconnect, start-of-day and weekly/monthly automated reports and ticket quality analytics.
- Partner with Functional Excellence and the service desk vendor, Atos to drive targets such as “zero avoidable tickets” through automation and knowledge improvements.
- Assist the EY Technology / I&O team with local People and Finance issues within the Canada Region.
- Establish and administer the OSTS annual budgets and manage expenditures in order to operate within the approved budget.
- Develop and maintain a roadmap and direction for OSTS including sourcing and location strategy.
- Service Operation & Performance Management:
- Monitor and own regional KPIs, SLAs, DSATs and CSATs. Lead and review weekly performance metrics using dashboards and other tools. Monitor aging Service Now tickets, misrouted tickets and take corrective actions.
- Interface and consult with other functional leads within EY Technology and I&O to coordinate planning and activities.
- Represent OSTS externally (e.g., with vendors and industry peers).
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with local Talent and understand the local people policies for countries in which staff are located.
- Maintain a high-level understanding of the business objectives, processes and supporting Technology needs of all customers in the Region. Stay sensitive to unique local needs.
- Build and develop relationships with key senior leadership in the Region to help manage Technology needs and issues.
- Collect Region viewpoints on Technology needs and service issues and communicate these to the appropriate Business Relationship Manager or I&O Leader.
- Assist and support the communication of significant EY Technology activities in the Region effectively so that they are understood by customers in that Region
- Advanced analytical skills are required to identify opportunities for service and process improvement across the geography supported.
- Work independently with limited oversight from a supervisor.
- High-level decision-making responsibilities include prioritization of work for the USS OSTS team and determining approaches to effectively address service delivery concerns of a large number of customers.
- Demonstrated ability to manage effectively with escalations, demanding situations and demanding individuals under pressure.
- Co-ordinate, understand and successfully integrate the activities of a large cross-cultural, cross-border team including virtual interaction and travel within geography on a regular basis.
- Demonstrated ability to manage all aspects of team management including hiring, development, and counselling.
- Ability to successfully develop and implement efficiently, actionable roadmaps.
- Demonstrated experience in fiscal management including budgeting and service costing.
- High level understanding of key performance indicators relevant to the role
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience is desirable.
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal, organizational, project and time management skills.
- Hands on experience orchestrating service adoption and change across platforms (Outlook/New Outlook, Office Technologies, etc. with OSTS execution.
- Exceptional customer service orientation
- Work schedule flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change.
- Established vendor relationship management experience.
- Demonstrated track record of continuous desktop support service and cost improvement and optimisation.
- Ability to liaise, establish strong relationships and work effectively with key regions and engagement leadership
- High level proficiency in all aspects of communicating with team members, supervisors and peers.
- At least 10 years' experience in leading large national teams in customer software, hardware and technology support