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Service Delivery Director

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship
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at Capgemini

Consultancies

Posted 4 days ago

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**Service Delivery Director** Act as senior leader for Capgemini's largest global client, ensuring end-to-end delivery of complex, critical live services across multiple technologies and delivery centers. Own service performance, availability, and customer satisfaction, while managing relationships with HMRC Service Managers. Lead incident response, drive continuous improvement, and own commercial and financial accountability. Requires proven service delivery leadership, ITIL Expertise, and experience with high-performance, high-availability systems. Offer hybrid working, BPSS security clearance, and skills development opportunities.

Compensation
Not specified

Currency: Not specified

City
Not specified
Country
United Kingdom

Full Job Description

About the Job you're considering

This is a senior Service Delivery leadership role supporting one of Capgeminis largest and most complex global clients. You will be accountable for the endtoend delivery, performance and continuous improvement of critical live services, operating at scale across multiple technologies, suppliers and delivery centres.


As a senior Service Delivery Director, you will act as the primary point of accountability between Capgemini and HMRC Service Managers, owning service outcomes, financial performance, risk management and senior stakeholder relationships. You will operate confidently in a highpressure, highvisibility environment, including during major incidents and periods of transformation.

Hybrid Working

Your working location will vary depending on the client engagement, delivery phase, base location, and security requirements. You should expect a mix of home working, Capgemini offices, and client sites. More onsite presence is typically needed for discovery, workshops, and secure environments. This is not a 100% remote appointment.

Your Role

You will take ownership of a portfolio of live and transitioning services, ensuring they are delivered reliably, securely and in line with contractual and regulatory obligations.

You will:

  • Act as the single point of accountability for service performance, availability and customer satisfaction
  • Lead service governance, operational reviews and commercial discussions with senior client stakeholders
  • Own forecasting, financial management and reporting as part of the MU MReview cycle, supported by PMO
  • Lead the Capgemini response to live service incidents and major incidents, including executivelevel communication
  • Drive continuous service improvement and readiness for change, ensuring services remain fit for purpose as the clients needs evolve

What Youll Do

  • Endtoend service ownership for complex, businesscritical live services, ensuring delivery against SLAs, KPIs and contractual commitments
  • Leadership during operational incidents, including major incidents, providing clear direction, decisionmaking and senior communications
  • Senior stakeholder management, building trusted relationships with HMRC Service Managers and other key stakeholders
  • Commercial and financial accountability, managing forecasts, actuals and risks in line with Capgemini and MU governance
  • Ensure new and changed services are transitioned into live service smoothly, securely and with minimal business disruption
  • Lead and influence internal delivery teams, 3rd party suppliers and CDO, ensuring accountability to agreed service and commercial outcomes
  • Own Service Overview Documents, risk and control frameworks, protecting Capgemini contractually and operationally
  • Identify and support service growth, improvement initiatives and business opportunities
  • Contribute to the wider success of the Portfolio and Market Unit

Why You?

You are an experienced Service Delivery leader who is comfortable operating at senior levels in complex environments. You take ownership, lead through ambiguity, and remain calm and decisive under pressure.

You will bring:

  • Proven experience owning and leading largescale, highavailability services
  • Strong incident and major incident leadership, including executive communications
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the credibility to challenge and influence
  • Strong commercial and financial awareness
  • A continuous improvement mindset, driving service maturity and resilience
  • Confidence working in Agile and multisupplier environments
  • Flexibility to provide outofhours oncall escalation as required

Essential / Desirable

  • ITIL Expert or Master (or equivalent senior service management experience)
  • Experience of highperformance, highavailability systems
  • Cloud service experience desirable


Key Attributes

  • Takes full ownership of service outcomes
  • Outcomefocused and dataled
  • Confident decisionmaker in highpressure situations
  • Clear, authoritative communicator
  • Trusted partner to senior clients

We're a Disability confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Governments Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
**Declare they have a disability, and **
Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Please opt in during the application process

Your Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.
There are certain criteria and checks required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

In addition to BPSS, you will also need SC (Security Check) Clearance or to be eligible for this level of clearance (by being a UK resident for at least 5 years and not having left the country for more than 28 consecutive days during this period)

Make it real what does it mean for you?

Youd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
You will reimagine whats possible: creating value for the worlds leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.


You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgeminis ‘learning for life mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
Youll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. Youll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

Why you should consider Capgemini?

Growing clients businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.

A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine whats possible. Its why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the worlds leading businesses. And its how youll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better, youll build the skills you want. And youll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

Service Delivery Director

Compensation

Not specified

City: Not specified

Country: United Kingdom

Capgemini logo
Consultancies

4 days ago

No clicks

at Capgemini

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship

**Service Delivery Director** Act as senior leader for Capgemini's largest global client, ensuring end-to-end delivery of complex, critical live services across multiple technologies and delivery centers. Own service performance, availability, and customer satisfaction, while managing relationships with HMRC Service Managers. Lead incident response, drive continuous improvement, and own commercial and financial accountability. Requires proven service delivery leadership, ITIL Expertise, and experience with high-performance, high-availability systems. Offer hybrid working, BPSS security clearance, and skills development opportunities.

Full Job Description

About the Job you're considering

This is a senior Service Delivery leadership role supporting one of Capgeminis largest and most complex global clients. You will be accountable for the endtoend delivery, performance and continuous improvement of critical live services, operating at scale across multiple technologies, suppliers and delivery centres.


As a senior Service Delivery Director, you will act as the primary point of accountability between Capgemini and HMRC Service Managers, owning service outcomes, financial performance, risk management and senior stakeholder relationships. You will operate confidently in a highpressure, highvisibility environment, including during major incidents and periods of transformation.

Hybrid Working

Your working location will vary depending on the client engagement, delivery phase, base location, and security requirements. You should expect a mix of home working, Capgemini offices, and client sites. More onsite presence is typically needed for discovery, workshops, and secure environments. This is not a 100% remote appointment.

Your Role

You will take ownership of a portfolio of live and transitioning services, ensuring they are delivered reliably, securely and in line with contractual and regulatory obligations.

You will:

  • Act as the single point of accountability for service performance, availability and customer satisfaction
  • Lead service governance, operational reviews and commercial discussions with senior client stakeholders
  • Own forecasting, financial management and reporting as part of the MU MReview cycle, supported by PMO
  • Lead the Capgemini response to live service incidents and major incidents, including executivelevel communication
  • Drive continuous service improvement and readiness for change, ensuring services remain fit for purpose as the clients needs evolve

What Youll Do

  • Endtoend service ownership for complex, businesscritical live services, ensuring delivery against SLAs, KPIs and contractual commitments
  • Leadership during operational incidents, including major incidents, providing clear direction, decisionmaking and senior communications
  • Senior stakeholder management, building trusted relationships with HMRC Service Managers and other key stakeholders
  • Commercial and financial accountability, managing forecasts, actuals and risks in line with Capgemini and MU governance
  • Ensure new and changed services are transitioned into live service smoothly, securely and with minimal business disruption
  • Lead and influence internal delivery teams, 3rd party suppliers and CDO, ensuring accountability to agreed service and commercial outcomes
  • Own Service Overview Documents, risk and control frameworks, protecting Capgemini contractually and operationally
  • Identify and support service growth, improvement initiatives and business opportunities
  • Contribute to the wider success of the Portfolio and Market Unit

Why You?

You are an experienced Service Delivery leader who is comfortable operating at senior levels in complex environments. You take ownership, lead through ambiguity, and remain calm and decisive under pressure.

You will bring:

  • Proven experience owning and leading largescale, highavailability services
  • Strong incident and major incident leadership, including executive communications
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the credibility to challenge and influence
  • Strong commercial and financial awareness
  • A continuous improvement mindset, driving service maturity and resilience
  • Confidence working in Agile and multisupplier environments
  • Flexibility to provide outofhours oncall escalation as required

Essential / Desirable

  • ITIL Expert or Master (or equivalent senior service management experience)
  • Experience of highperformance, highavailability systems
  • Cloud service experience desirable


Key Attributes

  • Takes full ownership of service outcomes
  • Outcomefocused and dataled
  • Confident decisionmaker in highpressure situations
  • Clear, authoritative communicator
  • Trusted partner to senior clients

We're a Disability confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Governments Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
**Declare they have a disability, and **
Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Please opt in during the application process

Your Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.
There are certain criteria and checks required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

In addition to BPSS, you will also need SC (Security Check) Clearance or to be eligible for this level of clearance (by being a UK resident for at least 5 years and not having left the country for more than 28 consecutive days during this period)

Make it real what does it mean for you?

Youd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
You will reimagine whats possible: creating value for the worlds leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.


You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgeminis ‘learning for life mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
Youll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. Youll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

Why you should consider Capgemini?

Growing clients businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.

A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine whats possible. Its why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the worlds leading businesses. And its how youll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better, youll build the skills you want. And youll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.