CareerPlan

Service Manager

London, England, GBFull-time2026-10-09 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead service management for a critical financial services organization, owning incident escalation, problem management, and vendor governance across high-volume trading systems.

Role type

Senior Service Manager (ITIL)

Builds

Stable, compliant IT services for high-volume trading systems

Domain

Financial Services / IT Service Management

Required skills

ITIL framework expertise, incident management, problem management, change management, release management, vendor governance, SLA definition, root cause analysis, trend analysis, capacity management

Preferred skills

Executive communication, critical thinking, solution-focused approach, collaboration, operational excellence, continuous improvement

Technologies

ITIL, trading systems

Responsibilities

Act as senior escalation point for incidents and major incident management; Lead root cause analysis, trend analysis, and process improvements; Design service measures, SLAs, and monthly reporting; Manage third-party vendors and service providers; Oversee change, release, and capacity management; Provide on-call support including out-of-hours critical periods