IT Service Manager

  • StepChange Debt Charity
  • Leeds, Yorkshire
  • Jul 02, 2025
Full time I.T. & Communications

Job Description

Salary Circa £50,000
Location Leeds/Hybrid
Shift Pattern Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
Contract Type Permanent
Hours of Work per Week 35
Closing Date 02/07/2025
Ref No 2291

Are you passionate about delivering top-quality IT services?

Do you enjoy driving operational stability and continuous improvement?

Are you skilled at clear communication, insightful reporting, and proactive service management?

We're looking for an IT Service Manager to lead the delivery of smooth, high-quality IT services by managing third-party suppliers and championing ITIL best practices. In this key role, you'll help maintain operational stability and drive continuous improvements that keep our IT aligned with business goals.

As a core part of our IT Operations team, you'll be the main link between IT and external partners-setting clear accountability, tracking performance, and ensuring every service delivers real value. This is a great chance to shape our IT service management and support the ongoing success of our organisation.

What you'll be doing

You'll manage the full IT service lifecycle, ensuring smooth operations and alignment with ITIL best practices. You'll handle incidents, changes, service requests, and maintain SLAs while driving service improvements. You'll also work closely with third-party vendors to ensure high performance and manage escalations.

You'll support incident response and root cause analysis, keeping teams prepared and lessons learned. Clear communication is key-you'll provide reports and insights to stakeholders and continuously look for ways to improve efficiency through automation and better processes, while supporting the onboarding of new services.

About you

StepChange is seeking someone with strong ITIL knowledge-ideally ITIL v4 certified-and proven experience managing IT services in complex multi-vendor environments. You're skilled at supplier management, handling contracts, SLAs, escalations, and driving improvements.

You're familiar with incident, problem, and change management and comfortable with service tools and reporting. You communicate clearly with both technical teams and senior stakeholders and are proactive in improving service efficiency, reducing downtime, and enhancing customer satisfaction through process improvements and automation.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are incredibly important to us; we have a culture of belonging. We're always looking to increase the diversity of our workforce to ensure we can provide the best service possible for everyone. It's not just about the professional experience you bring - we're interested in who you are and your potential. If there's an adjustment to our recruitment process that would help you to be your best, speak to our team and they'll be happy to help.