Team Leader - IT Service Desk

The Role

We’re looking for a London based Team Leader to lead our EMEA Service Desk, within Employee Technology Support. You will own team performance, development, service delivery and escalations while ensuring a consistent, high-quality employee experience.

You will combine strong people leadership with technical and operational expertise, demonstrating end-to-end ownership, acting early on risk and using data, learning and root cause analysis to prevent repeat issues. You will work as part of one ETS team, partnering across Support, Engineering, Infrastructure and Product to improve tools, processes and service outcomes.

We’ll Trust You To

Lead, coach and develop a high performing Service Desk team, creating shared accountability and continuous learning

Manage workload, escalations and service performance, with the employee experience at the center of decision making

Act as an escalation point for complex technical and operational issues, ensuring issues are fully diagnosed and followed through to resolution

Identify recurring issues, knowledge gaps, reuse learning and drive root cause fixes that reduce repeat demand

Act early on operational risks and communicate clearly with employees, stakeholders and partner teams

Drive knowledge, self-service, automation and process standardisation to improve service quality and efficiency

Partner effectively across ETS, Engineering, Infrastructure and Product, sharing context and ownership

Use service data to identify improvement opportunities and influence changes to tools, processes and policy

Maintain strong governance across tickets, documentation, procedures and service management practices

Support recruitment, resource planning and an inclusive, accountable team culture

You’ll Need To Have

5+ years’ experience in IT support or service delivery, including 1+ year in a leadership role

Proven experience coaching, developing and performance managing technical support teams

Strong understanding of incident, request, problem, change and knowledge management practices

Strong enterprise technology knowledge across desktop, mobile, software, networking, VPN, peripherals and endpoint security

Strong judgement, problem solving, communication and stakeholder management skills

A track record of operating independently, taking end-to-end ownership and influencing improvements beyond your immediate team

Experience managing SLAs, KPIs, escalations and operational performance

Experience working successfully in a global, cross-functional support environment

We’d Love To See

ITIL v4 Foundation certification

Experience delivering automation, self-service or workflow improvements

Experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams

Experience supporting a global 24/7 service model