Service Delivery Manager

The Service Delivery Manager (SDM) delivers an end-to-end customer experience across both NOC and Helpdesk, combining service governance, relationship management, and proactive success planning to drive outcomes, reliability, and long-term partnership growth.

You serve as the primary operational contact for service health, escalations, adoption, retention, and customer success outcomes.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Customer Success & Relationship Management

• Own customer satisfaction, retention, and value realization.
• Lead Monthly/Quarterly service reviews with MSP owners/CIOs and decision-makers.
• Drive proactive communication, sentiment tracking, and expectation alignment.
• Identify upsell/cross-sell opportunities with the Account Manager.
• Own churn prevention and risk management; maintain RAG account health.

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2. Unified Service Delivery Ownership (NOC + Helpdesk)

• Own end-to-end delivery across Helpdesk and NOC, from request/alert through resolution and post-incident follow-up.
• Maintain ticket/incident lifecycle health: response times, communication quality, escalation accuracy, and resolution effectiveness.
• Ensure performance to SLAs/SLOs and key KPIs (e.g., FCR, TTR, SLA adherence) across both service lines.
• Govern monitoring and operations (alert triage, patching, backup, AV/AM) and ensure Helpdesk queue hygiene and productivity.
• Track trends via unified dashboards (ticket flow, incidents, alert volumes, patch/backup health); validate tooling/RMM performance and surface systemic risks.
• Partner with Helpdesk leadership and NOC engineering on RCA, critical-incident communications, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.

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3. Unified Operational Governance

• Run unified operating cadences across Helpdesk + NOC.
• Own escalation governance: tracking, RCA follow-through, and customer communications.
• Maintain CRM/SFDC data accuracy and integrity.
• Ensure compliance with contractual SLAs/SLOs and KPIs.
• Lead cross-functional escalations with Engineering, Deployment, AM, Billing, Sales, and Support.

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4. Onboarding & Adoption

• Own onboarding for new unified (NOC + Helpdesk) customers.
• Ensure a smooth handoff from Sales to Delivery.
• Validate prerequisites (RMM access, credentials, documentation, and KB alignment).
• Enable customers on how to engage Helpdesk/NOC effectively (channels, expectations, escalation paths).
• Track onboarding milestones, adoption, and outcomes.

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5. Reporting & Analytics

• Deliver monthly performance reporting across both service lines.
• Summarize service quality, incident trends, compliance, RCA themes, and usage analytics.
• Present KPI dashboards and prioritized improvement opportunities.
• Partner with data/BI resources to improve operational insights.

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REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Technical Skills

• Monitoring/RMM: Datto RMM, VSA, VSA X
• Ticketing/PSA: Autotask, Salesforce, PSAs
• Working knowledge of patching, backup, AV/AM, servers/workstations, and networking
• Incident lifecycle and major-incident management fundamentals
• Basic OS/network/endpoint troubleshooting
• Excel and Power BI reporting

Customer Success Skills

• Executive stakeholder management (Owner/C-level)
• Renewal and retention ownership
• Clear executive communication
• Data-driven storytelling
• Contract and value alignment

Professional Skills

• Analytical, structured problem-solving
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• High accountability and ownership
• Manage multiple customers in parallel
• Cross-functional collaboration

Experience

• 0–5 years in service delivery, customer success, or managed services
• Hands-on exposure to both Helpdesk and NOC workflows
• MSP/IT services background preferred
• Experience managing high-value accounts

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SUCCESS METRICS

• Renewals/retention
• Compliance KPIs and SLA/SLO adherence
• CSAT/NPS targets
• Kaseya production adoption opportunities
• Service-review cadence compliance