Service Delivery Manager

Service Delivery Manager

Posted 4 days ago by QA Ltd

Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
United Kingdom

Summary: The Service Delivery Manager for Apprenticeships will act as the primary contact for QA's largest customers, ensuring effective delivery of learning and apprenticeship programs. This role involves building strong relationships with stakeholders, managing KPIs, and driving service performance while collaborating across various service lines. The manager will also lead process enhancements and support the overall objectives of QA. This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months, requiring home-based work with travel as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with senior customer stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor.
  • Manage KPIs and contractual commitments across the customer portfolio, proactively mitigating risks.
  • Serve as the primary operational point of contact for the customer portfolio within QA.
  • Drive process enhancements, monitor programme outcomes, and report on progress.
  • Support the wider function and contribute to a high-performance culture.

Key Skills:

  • Experience in service delivery management, particularly in apprenticeships.
  • Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to manage KPIs and contractual commitments effectively.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across service lines.
  • Analytical skills to drive process enhancements and monitor outcomes.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Service Delivery Manager – Apprenticeships (Service Delivery) Location: Home Based - with travel required as per customer/internal requirements FIXED TERM CONTRACT - 12 Months

About The Role

As a Service Delivery Manager, you will serve as the trusted advisor and primary point of contact for QA’s largest customers, ensuring the successful delivery of learning and apprenticeship programmes. Your role will involve representing the customer’s voice internally, collaborating across multiple service lines, and driving service excellence aligned with customer talent strategies. You will drive Service performance across customer contracts, lead the provision of MI and provide ownership across complex escalations. You will also lead on customer and internal enhancements whilst maintaining strong relationships across QA to support overall objectives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with senior customer stakeholders, act as a trusted advisor, and ensure alignment between learning programmes and customer talent strategies.
  • Manage KPIs and contractual commitments across your customer portfolio and proactively mitigate risks to ensure successful Apprenticeship outcomes.
  • Serve as the primary operational point of contact for your customer portfolio within QA, fostering collaboration across service lines and internal teams to meet customer expectations and deliver integrated solutions.
  • Drive process enhancements, monitor programme outcomes, and report on progress, using insights to identify improvements and demonstrate value delivered.
  • Support the wider function, contribute to a high-performance culture, and ensure work is well-organised, aligned with QA goals, and escalated appropriately when needed.

Your Benefits

27 days annual leave + bank holidays, 3 Training Days for QA courses & 2 volunteering days for a charity of your choice and professional Development, including qualifications. We are an equal opportunity employer, our rankings on The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List are a testament to this and we are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. Please let us know what reasonable adjustments, if any, you require.

If this is the role for you, please apply and one of our friendly recruitment team will be in touch with the next steps. QA is headquartered in London & New York. Learn more at QA.com

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Safeguarding Statement

QA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults with care and support needs. We hold the expectation that all staff share this commitment in creating a safe and inclusive environment and as an organization, we comply with relevant legislation and best practices in safeguarding and safe recruitment.

This Post Is Exempt From The Rehabilitation Of Offenders Act 1974 And a Comprehensive Screening Process Will Be Undertaken On Successful Applicants Including an enhanced disclosure check Child Barring list check qualification checks online checks medical fitness identity and right to work All applicants will be required to provide two references covering the previous three years and a Criminal Declaration form must be completed and returned ahead of interview.

We look forward to welcoming dedicated individuals who share our commitment to safety and well-being. QA believes the future belongs to organisations that are able to learn, master and apply new skills at speed and scale, combining the power of human and machine intelligence. QA delivers tech learning solutions for cutting-edge skills development, flexible training options, and expert-led courses to drive innovation. We do this across 4 modalities, Apprenticeships, Instructor-led training, self-paced training and hands-on labs.

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