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Head Of Service Delivery Management

Gauteng, South Africa💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-24

Core

Strategic and operational leadership over service delivery governance, ensuring contracted services, SLAs, and performance are managed, measured, and visible.

Role type

Senior IC Head of Service Delivery Management

Builds

Enterprise technology services and intelligent digital operations

Domain

IT Service Management / Managed Services

Deliverable

dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Enterprise IT service delivery leadership, SLA-driven governance, client escalation management, ITIL-aligned service management, commercial awareness of service performance, stakeholder engagement (CIO/CTO), monitoring and observability knowledge, operational readiness governance

Preferred skills

SIAM, ISO/IEC 20000, COBIT, PMP/PRINCE2, AIOps and automation expertise, team development

Technologies

Enterprise monitoring tools, observability platforms, AIOps frameworks

Responsibilities

Lead Service Delivery Managers across multiple enterprise accounts, diagnose and govern service performance deterioration, manage serious client escalations with executive communication, introduce consistent service governance standards, challenge incomplete handovers, manage service issues involving credits and contractual exposure, develop and performance-manage experienced SDMs

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership accountability

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