Service Desk Analyst, Exeter, Devon £28-30k

Service Desk Analyst x3 Exeter, Devon £28-30,000 + excellent bens

Our Devon based client is a leading business, offering superb opportunities for 3 x Service Desk Analysts to join the IT service desk team providing internal support and advice on a wide range of IT services. The team is small, inclusive and highly supportive; functioning as a vital first point of contact in a team of 300 IT professionals. As an employer, they pride themselves on their commitment to a better, sustainable future for generations to come – the company culture is based on the freedom to change, improve and innovate. There is an excellent career structure and reward package available including an attractive remuneration structure and benefits.

Key to this role is the ability to use your excellent interpersonal and communication skills to deliver superb levels of customer service, supporting the day-to-day operations of the Service Desk and providing first-line IT support to internal colleagues, ensuring the efficient use of their IT equipment and business applications. The successful candidate will be a problem solver and find reward in helping users resolve their issues. This is busy desk and will require dealing with a wide range of differing problems and solutions, so no two days are the same and would suit a candidate keen to avoid the mundane!

The role

• Provide 1 st line IT support to the Windows OS, MS office and networks
• Log and categorise incidents, assess their impact, and assign appropriate priority levels
• Resolve 70-80% of incoming calls, tickets and walk-ins efficiently - escalating the more complex incidents and service requests to appropriate 2 nd /3rd line
• Work to SLAs
• Proactively identify potential service impacts and escalate to the Service Desk Leaders
• Contribute to the IT knowledge base, helping develop and maintain self-help IT support materials to support users and reduce support demand

The requirements:

• Experience on an IT service Desk or similar role
• A strong working knowledge of Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office Suite, and networking concepts
• Ability to maintain hardware: desktops, laptops, printers, and mobile devices
• A friendly approach to problem solving
• Excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills
• Passion for delivering a high quality customer service experience and ongoing service development
• Able to work own initiative and work without supervision
• Well-developed analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal and proven communication skills - capable of engaging and building rapport
• Proactive team player with an enthusiasm for problem solving, planning and prioritising a complex and varied workload.
• Willing to work onsite Monday-Friday

If you are an experienced technical support professional / service desk analyst with excellent interpersonal skills and a thorough, methodical and flexible approach, then we need to talk! OR if you believe that you can use your existing tech-savvy knowledge and customer service skills to become an awesome Service Desk Analyst, then just let us know!

For further information and an initial discussion please call Keith Wilkins today on 07710 753413 or send your CV to kw@sdi-e.com

Please note that every application received is personally reviewed by our specialist team and it does not use automated screening tools. On occasion, a high volume of applicants will mean that we are unable to respond personally to your application and should this be the case please accept our apologies in advance.

Applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this role. SDI Recruitment is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.